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Carteret-Jones passin' hawsers an' assistin' the impotent in a sea-way might come pretty expensive on the tax-payer. I agreed in a disciplined way. I ain't proud. Gawd knows I ain't proud! But when I'm really diggin' out in the fancy line, I sometimes think that me in a copper punt, single-'anded, 'ud beat a cutter-full of De Rougemongs in a row round the fleet."
"Why, if Uncle Sam could look on sech sights, and have me right by him to tell him the reason on't to tell him that two thousand dollars lent on easy interest would turn every one of them worthless, decayin' pieces of property into beautiful, flourishin', prosperous homes, he'd probable feel different about passin' the bill from what he duz now
As Josiah looked at these last I hearn him murmur as if to himself, "Why under the sun didn't Samantha put in my dressin' gown with tossels, and the smokin' cap Thomas J. gin me, I could showed off some then." But I pretended not to hear him for my eyes wuz fastened on the passin' pageant.
She started well as a figurante in a comic opera company up-town, but from that she dropped to a female minstrel troupe in the Bowery, and now, Lewy Tusch told Cordelia, she was "tooing ter skirt-tance in ter pickernic parks for ter sick-baby fund, ant passin' ter hat arount afterwarts."
'An' when I come aht, she went on, ''oo should I see just passin' the 'orspital but this 'ere cove, an' 'e says to me, "Wot cheer," says 'e, "I'm goin' ter Vaux'all, come an' walk a bit of the wy with us." "Arright," says I, "I don't mind if I do." One man winked, and another said: 'Go it, Liza! She fired up with the dignity of outraged innocence.
Better come home wiz me yes, by Harry, thass the trick, you'll come home an' hassome supper hic wiz me! Awful lonesome nobody home! Guv'ner gone abroad Bubby on's honeymoon Polly havin' twins every damn soul gone away! Nuff hic nuff to drive a feller to drink, I say! Only ole Ham standin' by, passin' plates damfican eat like that, no sir! The club for me every time, my boy, I say.
"But I do want to know," Mary continued with some severity, "what you meant by talking in the public street yesterday with a common pickpocket." Aggie's childlike face changed swiftly its expression from a sly eagerness to sullenness. "You know perfectly well, Mary Turner," she cried indignantly, "that I only said a few words in passin' to my brother Jim. And he ain't no common pickpocket.
I'm a-willin' to take a chance that I can sell them two cadavers to some horsepital f'r dissection purposes, an' get more outer th' deal than, you can, Gib, by passin' 'em off as floaters.
"It's queer, like lots of names men get in these parts. An' it'll stick. Wade's been here twice; once as he was passin' with the hounds, an' the other night. I like him, Columbine. He's true-blue, for all his strange name. My men-folks took to him like ducks to water." "I'm glad. I took to him almost like that," rejoined Columbine. "He has the saddest face I ever saw." "Sad? Wal, yes.
"Not exactly visitin' he'll pay for stayin'. I'm tellin' you private that I'm goin' to wrangle dudes next season. I made him a good proposition and I think it'll ketch him." "It would be a good ad. for the country," said the Major, thoughtfully. "But wouldn't you be afraid he'd get lonesome out there with nobody passin'?"
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