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The major was a mighty decent, tender-hearted little old scout, a gentleman by birth and breeding, even if he was down and out and dog-poor. It was a shame that Devore kept him skittering round on little picayunish jobs running errands, that was really what it was. Still, at that, the old major was no reporter and never would be.
In his old age, when he was dog-poor, he lived on charity, only it was not known by that word, which is at once the sweetest and bitterest word in our tongue; for Brother Jackman, always primped, always plump and well clad, would go through the market to take his pick of what was there, and to the Richland House bar for his toddies, and to Felsburg Brothers for new garments when his old ones wore shabby and yet never paid a cent for anything; a kindly conspiracy on the part of the whole town enabling him to maintain his self-respect to the last.
Or no, I won't say that because most of the time I was dog-poor and this isn't the place for a poor man. But I always said to myself that if ever I pulled it off if I ever found my self a rich man THEN I'd come piking across the Atlantic as fast as triple-expansion engines would carry me." The young man smiled again, with a whimsical gleam in his eye.
Well, this cove he makes fistfuls o' money, but he's always dog-poor, so he" "Which cove makes fistfuls o' money?" demanded Price, roused from a reverie by the magic dissyllable.
The stud groom had bought her out of a travelling mob from New England when she was dog-poor and hardly able to drag herself along. Everybody thought she was going to be the best lady's horse in the district; but though she was as quiet as a lamb at first she had begun to show a nasty temper lately, and to get very touchy.
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