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Updated: May 12, 2025
Something in his blunt straightforward way appealed to me and I determined to try him. Handled right I imagined he would be a good man; handled wrong, he would probably become a bright and shining light of the genus hobo. So I hired him, telling him his salary would be forty dollars per month. "Hully gee!" he exclaimed, "forty plunks a month! Well say!
Time was when he would take my advice, but now he just buys things for Anne regardless, and the clerks at Carmody know they can palm anything off on him. Just let them tell him a thing is pretty and fashionable, and Matthew plunks his money down for it. Mind you keep your skirt clear of the wheel, Anne, and put your warm jacket on."
Then throwing herself down on the sand or turf and pulling her broad straw hat over her face she prepared for "talk." "Talk" consisted mostly of question and answer, "Where did you go last night?" "Casino." "Whom did you see at the casino?" "Same crowd." "Did you play?" "Just a little." "Did you win?" "Yep!" "Much?" "A couple of plunks," etc. Or, "Did Pussy catch you last night?" "No!
An' when he got so's he could mosey about agin, hes krutch got stuck in thu frawg o' the railroad crossin' in Gunnison an' a freight train mussed him up redic'lous! "Naow yuh'd think thet thu two thousand plunks thu Company paid hes paw fer dammitches was a purty faih standoff fer past hawdships, but thet fambly's luck was suthin' scandalous!
"Permit me to present to you the boy Croesus the only one extant. His marbles are plunks and his kites are made of fifty-dollar notes. He feeds upon coupons a la Newburgh, and his champagne is liquid golden eagles. Look at him, gentlemen, while you can, and watch him while he spends thirteen thousand dollars for flowers!" "With a Viennese orchestra for twenty-nine thousand!" added Bragdon.
"Mischief!" echoed Bobolink, who was close by at the moment, and heard what was being said; "say, that's too nice a word to use when talking about the pranks of that combination. Ward, he supplies some of the brains, and all of the hard plunks; while that bully, Ted Slavin, does the work, or gets some of his cronies to do it for him.
Stone put down his cards and reached for the pot. Curly laughed. Blackwell whirled on him. "What's so condemned funny?" "The things I notice." "Meaning?" "That I wouldn't have laid down my hand." "Betcher ten plunks he had me beat." "You're on." Curly turned to Soapy. "Object to us seeing your hand?" Stone was counting his chips. He smiled. "It ain't poker, but go ahead. Satisfy yourselves."
"Sure, I know the line of guff," said Mrs. Lawrence. "And you take an interest, and get eighteen plunks per for doing statistics that they couldn't get a real college male in trousers to do for less than thirty-five." "Or put it like this, Lawrence," said Jennie Cassavant.
"But we'll have to consider all that later. The question is: How can we get Link out on bail? Got any money?" Dunk pulled out his pocketbook and made a hurried survey. "About thirty plunks," he said. "I've got twenty-five," said Andy. "Link has nearly a hundred himself." "That won't be enough," said Dunk. "This is a grand larceny charge and the bail will be five hundred dollars anyhow.
The bank ain't got the cards to call Dilly now, for his note ain't due till near Christmas. So I reckon all I got to do after I pay the boys is take m' little old twenty-three plunks, and my hosses if I can't sell 'em right off and pull out for God-knows-where-and-I-don't-care- a-damn!"
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