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Entering the first that appeared, "Good morning, Smith, give me half-a-dollar." "Well, now, colonel, you are " "Never mind if I am I must have it!" It came. He entered another. "Hello! colonel, what's new?" "I want a half-dollar from you!" "What for?" "None of your business I want the money." He got it. He entered a third. "Hello, Bob! Anything new on eter " "Never mind, I must have fifty cents!"
That for every such couple registered the officer should be entitled to receive the sum of one half-dollar from the parties registered.
He could see as he passed through the outer room that both Johnson and Applerod were furtively eying him, but he walked past them whistling. When he had closed his own door behind him he drew again that mass of data toward him and struggled against the chin-high tide. Suddenly he shoved the papers aside, and, taking a half-dollar from his pocket, flipped it on the floor.
As soon as I saw him get in I reined up and asked where he was going; he had no baggage nor nuthin', and my orders are not to haul anybody except people of the hotel: so he came right forward through the 'bus and took the seat behind me and said 'twas all right, he was going to the hotel; and he passed up a half-dollar.
If I had a half-dollar I should pay you for your opinion; but since I haven't, I offer you my all. The temperature of my coffee seems to have fallen, Mrs. Pedagog. Will you kindly let me have another cup?" "Certainly," said Mrs. Pedagog. "Mary, get the Idiot another cup." Mary did as she was told, placing the empty bit of china at Mrs. Pedagog's side. "It is for the Idiot, Mary," said Mrs.
"They ain't nothin' like eagle-bird wheels an' snake-liniment at two bits a throw to help a man start at the bottom," he opined, and reaching for the half-dollar, tossed it to a forlorn-looking individual who lounged near the door. "Here, Greaser, lend a hand in helpin' me downward! Here's four bits. Go lay it on the wheel an' say: I got a hunch!
There are exigencies in which even the comments of a friend and well-wisher are superfluous. "You have a pretty tough gang to handle over these," the well-wisher went on. "I wouldn't touch a job like yours with a ten-foot pole, unless I could shoot good enough to be sure of hitting a half-dollar nine times out of ten at thirty paces.
"'I'll sell it to you for fifty cents, he said, with a grin. "I had erred in revealing the depth of my want, the extent of my distress. "I compromised by promising to give him a half-dollar if I should succeed in lighting my cigar with his solitary match. We did succeed. He took the fifty and started back for the saloon from whence he had come.
He was croaked complete. Then that sober-faced hyena lifts my gun an' the rifle an' says things to me, which I don't try to cross him. Then he goes behind the rock where we was havin' it out an' while he's gone I tries to git my guns from under that devil-eyed cayuse of his'n. "An' I don't succeed noways. That black devil turns on a half-dollar an' plants his hoofs plumb in my breast-bone.
In front of him lay a pile of gold-pieces and several stacks of chips. He was very red in the face from excitement and cocktails. The range-rider put a half-dollar on the red and won. He let it ride, won again, and shifted the chips to the black. Once more the goddess of luck favored him. He divided his pile. Half went on the red, the rest on the first number his eye caught.
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