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Painless smiled indulgently. "Speak up so they can all hear you," he encouraged her. "Never hurt a bit," the woman stammered. Three more operations were conducted as expeditiously and as successfully. The audience was evidently impressed. "How does he do it?" whispered Bob. "Cappers," explained Baker briefly. "He only fakes pulling a tooth.
There is a good fellow by the suggestive name of Sunday who works the religious graft. Sunday is the whirling dervish up to date. He and Chapman and their cappers purposely avoid any trace of the ecclesiastic in their attire. They dress like drummers trousers carefully creased, two watch-chains and a warm vest. Their manner is free and easy, their attitude familiar.
"Back thar in ther beginnin's, Cal," she said, clinging to the name by which she had first known him, "our foreparents planted this tree an' founded this country an' held hit erginst ther Injuns. They was leaders then afore any man hed ever heered of Cappers an' Squireses an' ther like.
Mincin is invited to an evening party with his dear friends the Martins, where he meets his dear friends the Cappers, and his dear friends the Watsons, and a hundred other dear friends too numerous to mention. He is as much at home with the Martins as with the Cappers; but how exquisitely he balances his attentions, and divides them among his dear friends!
Your state may disfranchise you with or without law, may mob you; but my hands are so tied that I can't help you at all, although I shall force you to defend my sovereignty with your lives. If you are beset by Klu Klux, White Cappers, Bulldozers, Lynchers, do not turn your dying eyes on me for I am unable to help you. Such is what the Federal Government has to say to the Negro.
"I suppose you are looking for Schloss, too. He's up in the Recherche a great deal, playing poker. I understand he owns an interest in the game up there." Kennedy nodded, but said nothing. "I just saw one of the cappers for the place go out before you went in." "Capper?" repeated Kennedy surprised. "Antoinette Moulton a steerer for a gambling joint?
Knowing that Levine had salted away a lot of money, he organized a gang of "cappers" and boosters, who made a great talk about the relative merits of two well-known pugilists. It was given out that a fight was to be "pulled off" up the Hudson and a party was made up to attend it. A private car was taken by the friend in question and Levine was the guest of honor. Champagne flowed freely.
A more striking instance is to be found in Ipswich in 1576, where the various occupations were all drawn up into four companies, as follows: The Mercers; including the mariners, shipwrights, bookbinders, printers, fishmongers, sword-setters, cooks, fletchers, arrowhead-makers, physicians, hatters, cappers, mercers, merchants, and several others.
Ray observes, and the narrow-tail'd Shakers have fewer in number. These, when they walk, carry their Tail-Feathers erect, and spread abroad like a Turkey-Cock. They likewise have diversity of Feathers. The next I shall take notice of, are the Jacobines, or Cappers: These are called Cappers from certain Feathers which turn up about the back part of the Head.
When his master attempted to hit him with a whip, he retaliated with the knife, splitting the man's breast open, from which he died. The slave escaped and was never captured. The white cappers or patrollers in all of the counties of Southern Maryland scoured the swamps, rivers and fields without success.
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