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Updated: June 10, 2025
And Little John did according to his words, the basket hanging down behind him like a peddler's pack; then, giving his staff to one of the maids, and taking a basket upon either arm, he turned his face toward Tuxford Town and stepped forth merrily, a laughing maid on either side, and one walking ahead, carrying the staff.
The Overseers of the Poor found that they could effect an arrangement by which the peddler's home, his horse and wagon, stock and good will could be sold for four thousand dollars. This was done. With half the money Reuben Hinman was able to purchase his way into a home for old men.
Another dozen charges also taken from actual court records might be added as illustrating the spirit of adventure, for although stealing is involved in all of them, the deeds were doubtless inspired much more by the adventurous impulse than by a desire for the loot itself: Stealing thirteen pigeons from a barn; stealing a bathing suit; stealing a tent; stealing ten dollars from mother with which to buy a revolver; stealing a horse blanket to use at night when it was cold sleeping on the wharf; breaking a seal on a freight car to steal "grain for chickens"; stealing apples from a freight car; stealing a candy peddler's wagon "to be full up just for once"; stealing a hand car; stealing a bicycle to take a ride; stealing a horse and buggy and driving twenty-five miles into the country; stealing a stray horse on the prairie and trying to sell it for twenty dollars.
A man driving a peddler's wagon up the hill one evening had noticed her as she lay on top of the stone wall, around the turn of the road beyond the farmhouse. "Kitty! Kitty! Kitty!" he called, as he stopped his horse. And reaching behind the seat, he brought out a bit of food, which he held out for her. Now, it happened that at that very moment Miss Kitty Cat had her mind on food.
If you were a merchant, you went on quietly with your 'business as usual. A mere patch of garden, or a peddler's tray, saved you from all the horrors of a questionnaire. Kshatriya fought Kshatriya, and no one else; and on the battlefield, and nowhere else. The victor became possessed of the territory of the vanquished; and there was no more fuss or botheration about it.
"Give him the water cure," ordered the boss tramp, in an undertone to one of his confederates. Going to the peddler's wagon the one so directed took down a pail. He went off in the darkness, but soon came back with a pail of water. Slipping up slyly, he dashed the water full in Darry's face. With a gasping cry of rage Dave Darrin started to spring to his feet.
Wherefore that sudden expansiveness seemed decidedly strange; but Jansoulet, too deeply moved to notice anything, continued: "After what I have just heard, when I see myself here in this great city of Paris, surrounded by all the illustrious names and distinguished minds within its limits, and then recall my father's peddler's stall! For I was born in a peddler's stall.
Another street crossed the venue there, and traffic, to the extent of several farmers' wagons and a peddler's cart or two, would rage about the junction. Then the falcon eye of General Deffenbaugh would perceive the situation, and the General would hasten, with ponderous solicitude, from his office in the First National Bank building to the assistance of his old friend.
It seemed that on Saturday nights I never missed being slapped down on a bar. Tens were always slapped down, while ones and twos were slid over to the bartenders folded. I got in the habit of looking for mine, and I managed to soak in a little straight or some spilled Martini or Manhattan whenever I could. Once I got tied up in a great greasy roll of bills in a pushcart peddler's jeans.
He led the way back into the cave, but because of the peddler's possible presence, he wasn't as headlong in his traversing of the tunnel as he might otherwise have been. They passed the side tunnel from which they had emerged a short time before and entered entirely new territory.
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