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Updated: May 19, 2025
"You're guessing to know who I'd marry, eh?" Bull's pipe was knocked out into the cuspidore. Then he sat up again and his eyes were full of reckless delight. "Here," he cried, "I guess it's mostly school-kids who shout the things they reckon to do or a fool man. It doesn't matter. Maybe I'm both. Anyway, I'm just crazy for for " "Red hair, an' an' a pair of mighty pretty eyes?" "Sure."
Hopalong turned wearily and tossed his half-consumed cigarette into the box of sand which did duty as a cuspidore: "I reckon so; an' he shore can hatch whenever he gets good an ready, too." "He's probably a-broodin' over past grievances," offered Johnny, as he suddenly pushed Lanky's elbow from the table, nearly causing a catastrophe.
Struthers, the picture man, come to us R. Alonzo Struthers, of London and 'Frisco, he was and showin' us a picture, he says: "'Ain't that great? Sunday supplements! Full page! Big display! eh? "It sure was. 'Bout 9x9, and showing every detail of the Reception saloon. There was 'Single Out' analyzing the cuspidore and 'Curly' dozin', as contorted and well-done as a pretzel.
The men chew tobacco, especially in the South, and in Virginia I have seen men spitting five or six feet, evidently taking pride in their skill in striking a "cuspidore." In every hotel, office, or public place are cuspidores which become targets for these chewers. This is a national habit, extraordinary in so enlightened a people.
"Why, at one place I was woke up at 3 o'clock in the morning by what I thought was a chariot race in the hall outside, but it was only a lot of young bloods rolling ten pins down by the rooms, using empty wine bottles for pins and China cuspidores for balls. I would have gone out and shot enough drunken galoots for a mess, only I was afraid a cuspidore would carom on my jaw.
But it makes me wonder. It surely does." He spat accurately into the cuspidore. "Does the report hand you anything else?" Bull asked, without turning. The other noticed the complete lack of real interest. He shrugged. "The camps are all in full cut. They're not a cord behind." Bat looked for a word, the lighting of an eye. There was none. And he stirred in his chair, and exasperation drove him.
The sheriff levies on his stock of editorial "we's" the paste sours, the office cat starves, spiders festoon the sawdust cuspidore and the dust settles like a pall on his collection of worn type and wood-base railway cuts. The second-hand engine ceases to snort, the rat printers disperse and the wheezy old cylinder press no longer alarms the neighborhood.
He gets trusted for a shirt-tail full o' pied type, a pre-Raphaelite press, lays in a job-lot of editorial "we's" and a sawdust cuspidore, girds up his loins and begins to commence. His first task is to reform the currency system and instruct the universe in the esoteric science of economics.
"The lad never begged his pardon nor nothin'. His fist just shot out and landed on the nigh corner of Wilmer's jaw, clean and fair, and 'Single Out' done as pretty a headspin as I ever see considering that it was executed in a cuspidore. 'Twas my first insight into the amenities of football. I'd like to see a whole game of it. They say it lasts an hour and a half.
"Guess my back teeth have got it," he said, with a smile. "You needn't worry I'll let go." Bat drew a deep breath. He stood up and spat his mangled chew into the cuspidore. "I'm glad. I'm real glad," he cried. "I'm a heap more glad you told me those words without askin' the other things you need to know. But you got to know 'em right away.
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