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Passing through the crowd of jabbering Chinamen and "dagoes," of miners off shift, drawn hither by curiosity, and of gamblers of all grades from the professional expert to the "tin-horn," Houston found his way around the corner of the building, down into an alley, dark, dismal and reeking with filth.
As it is, I'm commissioned to make it hot for the ranchers that killed those dagoes, and I'm going to do it. If this country had a man like Cavanagh for sheriff, we'd have the murderers in two days. He knows who the butchers are, and I'd like his help; but he's nailed down here, and there's no hope of his getting away. A few men like him could civilize this cursed country."
I'm the first to be glad when a nigger succeeds so long as he stays where he belongs and doesn't try to usurp the rightful authority and business ability of the white man." Thank the Lord, we're putting a limit on immigration. These Dagoes and Hunkies have got to learn that this is a white man's country, and they ain't wanted here.
"And you're never likely to," 'Hatchet Ben' interjected, "there's no money in it, not unless it is organized and run on a percentage basis. There are a few French Canadians, but no real Frenchmen on the road, and the Dagoes never take to it." "I wonder why?" Hamilton queried.
"Holy Moses!" exclaimed the boatswain, in consternation, "you surely don't mean to say, sir, that after all this time you still has doubts about the truth of that there treasure yarn, do ye? If we don't find that wrack there'll be the dickens to pay in the forecastle. The men especially them Dagoes 'll be that disapp'inted that there's no knowin' what game they may try to play."
"Dan was the second friend I've seen murdered by these devils," he said. "I'd like to do something." "We'll need your help, if it was really the dagoes." "What? There's no doubt on that score. Donnelly was warned." "Well, we ought to have them under arrest in short order." "And then what? They've probably arranged their alibis long ago.
"And nothing but dagoes in it. What a place! and what scum!" he commented frankly upon his wife's birthplace. "Was it like this when you lived here?" he asked pityingly. "Not so much," she said quietly, not knowing why she disliked his tone and his comment upon the present population of Alton. "They ought to do something to prevent all this foreign trash from swarming over here," Archie observed.
He produced a bit of coarse wrapping-paper upon which was this message in rough capital letters: TWO DAGOES SHOT HIM DASSENT SAY NO MORE FROM A FRIEND IN CINCINNATI. Average Jones examined the wrapper. It was postmarked Cincinnati. He next smoothed out the creased silk and studied minutely the blotches, which were heaviest about the left breast and shoulder.
And a gang of tough kids sprang up called the "Kilkenny Cats," with which my gang used to fight. After the "Low Irish" came the "Dagoes" ... and after them the "Hunkies" ... each wilder and more poverty-stricken than the former. I was going to school, scrawny and freckle-faced and ill-nourished. I had a pet chicken that fortunately grew up to be a hen.
"Jerry," remarked Peggy, breaking the brief pause that had fallen between them, "did you ever hear of Audubon?" "What's that? Do you mean the language for everybody to learn, so that Japs and Dagoes and us folks can talk together, same as if we'd been raised 'longside each other?" "Oh, no! That's Volapük you're talking about, Jerry. Audubon was a man." "Oh!" Apparently Jerry had lost interest.
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