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Updated: June 25, 2025


Bébée sat with a wondering look in her wide-opened eyes, and all the natural instincts of her youth, that were like curled-up fruit buds in her, unclosed softly to the light of joy. "Is life always like this in your Rubes' land?" she asked him; that vague far-away country of which she never asked him anything more definite, and which yet was so clear before her fancy.

Ther's always somethin' wrong somewheres, and yer ain't never knowin' how it's goin' ter end especially when you got to do a careful act like mine. There's a girl, Eloise, in our bunch, what does a SHOWY act on a horse what Barker calls Barbarian. She goes on in my place sometimes and say, them rubes applauds her as much as me, an' her stunts is baby tricks alongside o' mine.

But what I want is to know things, to know all about what was before ever I was living. St. Gudule now they say it was built hundreds of years before; and Rubes again they say he was a painter king in Antwerpen before the oldest, oldest woman like Annémie ever began to count time.

These nighthawk taxis around here make most of their mazuma by this fly stuff generally the souses ain't got enough left for a taxicab, and it's a waste o' time stickin' 'em up since the rubes are so easy with the taxi meter. But just look out for a little badger work on the chauffeur when ye git through with 'im." Burke nodded. Then he added. "Just keep this to yourself, won't you?

His premonition that they might be "Rubes" seemed likely to have been well founded. What would his father his great, world-famous father have thought of them? "Bah! these Yankee bourgeoisie!" He could almost hear him say it. Miguel Carlos Speranza detested in private the Yankee bourgeoisie. He took their money and he married one of their daughters, but he detested them.

I don't see how a girl can browse around a town like this with a big bear at night and not be seen, and if she is seen she'll be followed it would be too much of a treat for the rubes ever to be passed up and if she's followed she won't come here. At least I hope she won't." "What's that?" exclaimed The Oskaloosa Kid. Each stood in silence, listening. The girl shuddered.

"Well, that put it up to us to get busy, so I did the spieling on the outside until my voice gave out, and Merritt lied on the inside until he was black in the face, telling the Rubes about how many sheep old Pete swallowed every week.

He was warmer, that was a real physical and consequently a slight mental comfort, but the feeling of lonesomeness was still acute. So far his acquaintanceship with the citizens of South Harniss had not filled him with enthusiasm. They were what he, in his former and very recent state of existence, would have called "Rubes." Were the grandparents whom he had never met this sort of people?

He had not wanted to go to that country party. With all a city boy's superiority he had yawned at the suggestion; then decided to go just to watch "the rubes"; and there he had found her, and his visit to the distant cousin had assumed a new significance.

Steve drove out to Tom's house late one evening in September. He hated to go but was convinced it would be better to do so. "I don't want to burn all my bridges behind me," he told himself. "I've got to have at least one friend among the solid men here in town. I've got to do business with these rubes, maybe all my life. I can't shut myself off too much, at least not yet a while."

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