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You Rubes sound like the beginning of a stampede, in this brush." The sheriff had never before been called a Rube to his face, at least. The audacity took his breath; and when he opened his mouth for scathing speech, Pink was not there. He had slipped away, like a slim, elusive shadow, and the sheriff did not even know the exact direction of his going. There was nothing for it but to wait.
"The trick is to locate the black card," Dave's companion explained. "It's easy enough if you just keep your eye on the card, but the trouble with these rubes is they name the card and then start to get out their money, and while they're fumbling for it he makes a change so quick they never see it. There's just one way to beat him.
I used to wonder where they came from, for they are not like any of us one bit, and the charwoman she is Lisa Dredel, and lives in the street of the Pot d'Etain always said. 'Dear heart, they all belong to Rubes' land: we never see their like nowadays. But you must come out of Rubes' land; at least, I think so, do you not?"
And, when he's sober Laban almost runs the lumber business. Besides, they're nice folks almost always." Plainly the ways of South Harniss were not the ways of the world he had known. Certainly these people were "Rubes" and queer Rubes, too. Then he remembered that two of them were his grandparents and that his immediate future was, so to speak, in their hands.
It doesn't show finger-marks so." Then, quite suddenly, she stood up, shaking a little, and buried her face in the boy's shoulder. "Why why, Mother! Don't! Don't, Blonde. We'll see each other every few weeks. I'll be coming to New York to see the sights, like the rest of the rubes, and I suppose the noise and lights will confuse me so that I'll be glad to get back to the sylvan quiet of Chicago.
"He went on, preachin' about business shrewdness and how it paid, and how mean and tricky in little deals we Rubes was, and yet we didn't appreciate how to manage big things, till I got kind of sick of it. "'Look here, Mr. Williams, says I, 'you know how I make my money what little I do make or you say you do. Now, if it ain't a sassy question, how did you make yours?
Surely they're genuine." "So's a rhinestone genuine as a rhinestone. The testimonials that ain't bought, or given as a favor, are from rubes who want to see their names in print." "At least I suppose it isn't harmful," said Hal desperately. "No more than any other good ol' booze. It won't hurt a well man.
A month from now rubes like you'll be glad to crawl at my feet an' wipe their dirty mugs on the hem o' that there woman's skirt. Now listen, says he. 'Get the hell into that there box o' yourn over there and be quiet. "Crazy as a loon. I hope to die! the guy was dangerous. I see that. It come to me it's best to humor him, and I go into the coop again.
And so perhaps they are, but that is no answer. And I do want to know. I want some one who will tell me; and if you come out of Rubes' country as I think, no doubt you know everything, or remember it?" He smiled. "The free pass to Rubes' country lies in books, pretty one. Shall I give you some? nay, lend them, I mean, since giving you are too wilful to hear of without offence.
We'll go together, Bridge, and on the other side you'll learn something that'll surprise you. I believe there is 'another side, don't you, Bridge?" "I've never thought much about it," said Bridge; "but at a time like this I rather hope so I'd like to come back and haunt this bunch of rat brained rubes."
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