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Updated: June 11, 2025
Whenever you see eighty or ninety more drunks than usual, you know there's either been a stampede or else justice has been administered." "Ain't Bonsor late?" asked someone. "No, it's a quarter of." "Why do they want Bonsor?" "His case on the docket McGinty v. Burt Bonsor, proprietor of the Gold Nugget." "If they got a row on " "If they got a row? Course they got a row. Weren't they pardners?"
It seemed as if he were making up for all the time he had lost while he was respectable, and condensing into one all the drunks he might have taken and had n't. "He kept it up for three weeks. Part of the time he was with the Indians, part in Virginia City, and part in Carson.
"It's a funny thing to me," one little dried-up old man with fierce moustaches and very gentle eyes was saying, "what we got a sheriff for. This sort of gun play's been runnin' high for nigh on six months now, an' Cole Dalton ain't boarded anybody in his little ol' jail any worse'n hoboes an' drunks for so long it makes a feller wonder what a jail an' a sheriff is for."
Drunken men are the especial prey of the road-kids. Robbing a drunken man they call "rolling a stiff"; and wherever they are, they are on the constant lookout for drunks. The drunk is their particular meat, as the fly is the particular meat of the spider. The rolling of a stiff is ofttimes an amusing sight, especially when the stiff is helpless and when interference is unlikely.
Can we not understand that it was needful to shake mankind loose from gossip and pink teas, and sword-worship, and Saturday night drunks, and self-seeking politics and theological quibbles to wake them up and make them realise that they stand upon a narrow knife-edge between two awful eternities, and that, here and now, they have to finish with make-beliefs, and with real earnestness and courage face those truths which have always been palpable where indolence, or cowardice, or vested interests have not obscured the vision.
It seemed to Henrietta, however, a most senseless question, for she remarked rather testily: "Why, just the Island, where they send all the crazy folks, and the drunks, and the thieves and murderers, and them that has smallpox." "Mercy! what an awful place it must be!" I cried. "And that's where the poor girl went?" "That's where she went say, tell me honest now, didn't you run away?" "Run away!
He looked so hard towards Nebraska that he all but toppled. "Somethin' here," he laid a hand on his heart, approximately, "like a plaster drawin'. Love," eloquently, "changes your hull nature. It makes lambs out o' roughnecks and puts drunks on the wagon. It turns you kind and forgivin' and takes the fight out o' you. It makes you " "Maudlin! And weak! And inefficient!" Kate interrupted savagely.
He would fraternise with the man at the bar for a time, and then go roaming at large about the township in a desultory way, sleeping casually in all sorts of absurd places; but Waddy had a large experience in 'drunks' and made liberal allowances. Miss Chris called in at Mrs. Haddon's home on evening shortly after tea.
Brown; and when they expostulated and told her their real names, she merely nodded and went on calling them Mr. Brown. It interested Philip to sit with her in the bare room, with its two horse-hair couches and the flaring gas, and listen to her. She had long ceased to look upon the people who came in as human beings; they were drunks, or broken arms, or cut throats.
Her hands, suddenly unclasped, lifted and fell in startled flight. "An insane asylum?" she gasped. He leaned forward. "Why do you say that?" "Because it's the only place in this state where they send drunks... I know plenty who've been through that game... You can't tell me anything about that." He stared at her in silence and presently she said: "What are they doing to you, anyway?
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