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What we want in New York is a rattling good, up-to-date Englishman or two to show 'em a few things. They're a lot of muckers over there, take it from me. By Jove, Roxbury, you don't know how I'd appreciate your friendship in this matter. It will simplify things immensely. You'll speak a good word for me when the time comes, now, won't you?" "You want me to do you a good turn," said Brock slowly.
"Isn't it funny how some folks will cling to muckers? Why, anyone would think that the fellow Benson and his chums are so necessary that the business couldn't go on without them. They're the " "Hush!" murmured the lawyer. "Here come the boys." Jack and his mates were at this moment coming out of the yard. They had turned on the sidewalk, and started along ere they caught sight of the group ahead.
"Cut all that," dryly interrupted Orr Tweet. "All right, sir," replied the clerk cheerfully. "Main contractors, Demarest, Spruce & Tillou. Want fifty muckers and fifty skinners two jerkline skinners must be A-1. Fifty-five a month and found. Fee two dollars. Ship you out one o'clock to-morrow. On?" Tweet nudged Hiram and nodded, and Hiram tendered four silver dollars.
"Pers'nally," McGuffey announced quietly, "I prefer to die aboard the Maggie, if I have to. This ain't movin' day with B. McGuffey, Esquire." "Them's my sentiments, too, Scraggsy." "Then defend yourselves. Come on, lads. Bear a hand an' we'll bounce these muckers overboard."
"A real fine little chap!" said Meg, with heartiness and feeling. "I'm not a crank on children, seein' most o' them's muckers an' trouble from mornin' to night, but if it 'ad pleased the Lord as I should wed, I shouldn't 'a wished for a better specimen of a babe than Tom's kiddie. Pity the mother died!" "When the child was born?" queried Helmsley gently.
"It's a pity we can't get up our own eleven play the muckers, just once, and beat them out for the right to represent Gridley." "It wouldn't be so bad an idea. But they might beat us," retorted Bayliss dryly. "So, on the whole, our fellows have decided not to pay any heed whatever to Dick & Co. or any of the other muckers.
"Gridley H.S. is getting worse and worse," growled Ripley. "Athletics ought to be confined to the best sort of fellows in the school. These little muckers, these nobodies, ought to be kept out of everything in which the real fellows take part." "Don't be a cad, Ripley," retorted Badger, half angrily. "Oh, I'm no great stickler for caste, and that sort of thing," Fred grumbled on.
"If you were on the desk you wouldn't want reporters that wouldn't take orders." Van Cleve, oldest in standing of any of the staff, approached Banneker with a grave face and solemn warnings. To leave The Ledger was to depart forever from the odor of journalistic sanctity. No other office in town was endurable for a gentleman. Other editors treated their men like muckers.
After this the line must be drawn, at High School, between the gentlemen and the other kind." "All plans looking in that direction will have my hearty support," pledged Bert Dodge. "I know it, old fellow." "It's queer that the question never came up before about the muckers," Bert mused. "We never had Dick & Co. in school athletics, until last year," replied Bayliss significantly.
But the, gang that call themselves Dick & Co. are a fair sample of the muckers that we have to contend with." "No," objected Fremont; "they're the very worst of the lot in the High School. Why, look at the advertising those fellows get for themselves. And not one of them of good family." "Fellows of good, prominent families don't have to advertise themselves," observed Bayliss sagely.
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