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Updated: May 15, 2025
"And now, my boy, can you add to your favors by showing us the way to this What's her name? you mentioned, and telling me, as we go along, where I can get hold of a good guide and sportsman about here?" As he spoke he attempted to slip a half-dollar into the boy's hand, but it was sharply withdrawn.
"'I bet-che fifty cents I pick the winner in the next race! he said sportily, "'Done! said the other, still laughing. "Gran'ther picked a big black mare, who came in almost last, but he did not flinch. As he paid over the half-dollar he said: 'Everybody's likely to make mistakes about some things; King Solomon was a fool in the head about women-folks!
He shook his head in amused pity once or twice as he recognized some of his "old friends" among the gay crowd; how well he knew of old that some of those civil servants had likely made the tour of whole departments that afternoon to borrow the half-dollar admission fee that granted them all this pleasure to-night, fellows who had been rollicking all their lives, who had not hesitated over anything, who would as soon fall in love with a troupe of bouncing actresses, and follow them around from city to city, as they would eat their dinner, and yet he could see the gratification of unsuspecting girls as these destitute enthusiasts sought and enjoyed their company.
It was a poor, cheap-looking, tarnished silver medal, a half-dollar once, undoubtedly, beaten out roughly into the shape of a heart and engraved in script by the jeweller of some country town.
'It is too bad, and I wish we could give up the party, she said aloud, forgetting in her excitement that Harold was still standing there, gazing curiously at her. 'You here yet? I thought you had gone! she said, half angrily, as she recovered herself a little and met the boy's wondering eyes. 'Yes'm; but you ain't going to give the party up? he said, afraid of losing his half-dollar.
We suppose you have often been vexed, or even outraged, by the ingratitude of the waiter whom you had given a handsome tip, over and above the extortionate charge of the house, and who gathered up your quarter or half-dollar and slipped it into his pocket without a word, or even an inarticulate murmur, of thanks?" "Often. Outraged is no word for it."
Only a few years ago an old and valued American friend of mine an ex-ship captain settled in the Gilbert Islands in the North Pacific became annoyed at what he deemed to be the excessive prices the natives charged for fish. The "excessive price," I may mention, meant that he was asked a half-dollar for a basket of fish weighing, say, fifty or sixty pounds.
It would first have been necessary to apply to his uncle for the once-rejected half-dollar. He was determined never to do that. He walked home, very thoughtful. He could not see how it was possible that any good fortune should ever happen to him in Washington. The sights of the city had become exceedingly distasteful to him, associated as they were with his hopes deferred and his heart-sickness.
Quite convinced of the stranger's mental unsoundness, the boy glanced again at his half-dollar, as if to make sure of its integrity, pocketed it doubtfully, and turned away. "Where are you going?" said Hamlin, resuming his seat with the agility of a circus-rider, and spurring forward. "To Green Springs, where I live, two miles over the ridge on the far slope," indicating the direction.
It was all good believe an expert Robert from the half-dollar Medoc of the public hotel table, to the private gentleman's choicest wine. Claret is, somehow, good in that gifted place at dinner, at supper, and at breakfast in the morning. It is good: it is superabundant and there is nothing to pay. Find me speaking ill of such a country!
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