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Updated: May 19, 2025
"I wasn't going to take any chances with 'em. About a wild animal you can tell. But mad folks are different! "So I kept near the lion den; and when the row broke out and the roughs from the town began to fight our razorbacks them's our pole- and canvas-men," explained Mr. Sorber, parenthetically, "I popped me right into the cage yes, ma'am!
Still surrounded by their guards, the Chilians marched away along the stone quay wall, and presently, having left the precincts of the harbour, they arrived in the town proper of Callao. There, as soon as they made their appearance, a crowd of roughs surrounded the prisoners and began to deride them and pelt them with such filth and garbage as came to hand.
Sometimes they would lead him into a fight and then beat him black and blue, and sometimes they would nail the stranger into a hogshead and roll him down a steep hill. When Abe Lincoln first came to the town they were afraid to tackle him, but when their friends taunted the crowd of young roughs with being afraid of Lincoln's strength, they decided to lay a trap for him.
When the second day of the bombardment opened, there were about a hundred thousand people still in New York, including two of the city regiments doing police duty. A strong force for this purpose was necessary, as a large number of roughs and criminals, who had hurried away during the first panic, now returned, and signalized their advent by the attempted pillage of the Vanderbilt residences.
A great treat was expected, but there was among the officers of police some who thought that a portion of the audience would not bear quietly the hard things that would be said, and that there was an uncanny gathering of roughs about the street, who were not prepared to be on their best behaviour when they should be told that old England was being abused.
He tossed a copper two-sou piece down to the bent old woman. She heard the clink of the fall, and looked up bewildered. One of the waterside roughs slouched forward. The Englishman shouted a warning and a threat, indicating in pantomime for whom the coin was intended.
"No, quite the reverse; I think that I am electrified," she replied briskly. "Then we will go to Battery Park," he said, turning south. "Battery Park, where all the immigrants and roughs congregate! What an idea! We shall catch smallpox or have our pockets picked!" "Have you ever been there?" persisted Evan.
Diamond was off his box in a moment and running to the help of the girl. The roughs began to act worse than ever. Just then Diamond's father came back and sent them flying. The girl thanked Diamond and began sweeping again as if nothing had happened. She did not forget her friends, however. A moment after, she came running up with her broom over her shoulder, calling "Cab, there! Cab!"
The troops then marched quickly back to the Residency, where their presence was much needed, as there was great excitement in the town, and a good deal of fighting between the police and the roughs of the city, who endeavored to get up a general rising and an indiscriminate plunder of the town.
If everything in the animal world has its counterpart among men, then these were the wolves, jackals and hyenas of the race at once cowardly and fierce audaciously bold when the power of numbers was on their side, and cowardly when confronted with resolution by anything like an equality of strength. Like all other roughs and rascals of whatever degree, they were utterly worthless as soldiers.
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