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"I gather that this here practice that you're buildin' up ain't exactly remunerative," I said to Mike. "Not yet it ain't, but I'm widenin' out. There ain't a day passes that I don't learn something. I was out drummin' up a little trade when your groans convinced me that somebody in here had a jumpin' toothache. If you ain't busy, mebbe you can help me get a patient."
He realized that the gentleman was a foreigner, and since the meaning of his speech was not clear, it was quite likely that he might be hazy about the value of money and the rates of car hire. The Duchess of Drummin came in her landau. Like Lady Geoghegan, she marked the national and industrial nature of the occasion in her attire.
"There she lays, in the Channel off the Boulder Bank," whispered the old man, pointing to the privateer, dull-black against the glitter. "And it's my belieft there's not a sober man aboard of her. All stow'd away dead drunk under hatches that's my belieft, sir. They kep it up from dark till midnight dancin, drummin, fightin, and all manner.
"Oh, sinners, yer may stan' dar er laffin', Wile de res' uv us er quaffin' Uv de streams wich de win's is er waffin' Right fresh fum de heb'nly sho'. "But, min', der's er day is er comin', Wen yer'll hyear a mighty pow'ful hummin'; Wen dem angels is er blowin' an' er drummin', In de awful jedgment day.
When we got to the guard-house they tuk all the rest of his money away, shaved his head, and drummed him out o' camp." "Yes, we saw that," answered Si; "but didn't pay no attention to it. They're drummin' some feller out o' camp nearly every day, for something or other." "I don't see that it does any good," said Shorty. "It'd be a heap better to set 'em to work on the fortifications.
"That's so," rejoined a bystander; "and I notice on that last box o' pills I got for chills the directions say that a little 'agreeable exercise' not too violent is a great assistance to the working o' the pills." "I reckon that that Mr. Brooks who's down here lookin' arter mill property, got up the dance. He's bin round town canvassin' all the women folks and drummin' up likely gals for it.
"Six young children is harder: ef I went fifin' and drummin' off, who 'd take care of them I'd like to know?" "I guess I could support the family ef I give my mind to it;" and Mrs. Wilkins turned a flapjack with an emphasis that caused her lord to bolt a hot triangle with dangerous rapidity; for well he knew very little of his money went into the common purse.
"Haw, haw, haw!" roared Raish. "Look at him! Don't he look like a bullfrog under a lily pad? Eh? Don't he now? Haw, haw, haw!" Erastus Beebe joined in the laugh, but he shook his head. "I've had that cap in stock," he said, "since well, since George Cahoon's son used to come down drummin' for that Boston hat store, and he quit much as eight year ago, anyhow.
I hadn't figured on gettin' so close to the affair as this, but as I had I couldn't do anything else but see it through. I finds Brink drummin' a jazz tune on his desk with his fingers and otherwise makin' the best of it. "Well," says he, as I taps him on the shoulder, "is it all over?" "Not yet," says I. "But the big boss is about to give you the third degree. So buck up."
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