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I never could see any good in shaking down the rubes for all the money they had and then taking part of it. He used to run the privilege car, you know." Laura looked puzzled. "Privilege car?" she echoed. "Yes," he went on, "had charge of all the pick-pockets dips we called 'em sure-thing gamblers and the like. Made him rich. I kept sort o' on the level and I'm broke.
"Maybe he's in the cabin," he whispered, coming up where Pink stood listening tensely at all the little night sounds. Pink turned and crept silently to the right, keeping in the deepest shade, while the others followed willingly. They were beginning to see the great advantage of having Pink along, even if he had called them Rubes.
The very Corinthian clerks and grocery boys, lounging behind their counters and in the doorways, the lawyer's understudy with his feet on the window sill, the mechanic's apprentice, the high school youths and the local sporting fraternity all imitated their city kind and talked smartly about the country "rubes" who came to town; never once dreaming that they themselves, when they "go to town," are as much a mark for the like wit of their city brothers.
"You are of the people of Rubes' country, are you not?" she asked him. "Of what country, my dear?" "Of the people that live in the gold frames," said Bébée, quite seriously. "In the galleries, you know.
"I'm not going to stop here to be kicked round by a bunch of Rubes like you," he snarled. "I won't stand for it any longer. I'll give you ten dollars to set me over on Matinicus to-night." There was a dangerous flicker in Spurling's eyes, but his voice was steady. "You can go, and welcome, on our next trip, day after to-morrow; but we can't break into our regular work to set you across." "No?
There were a couple of 'Rubes' at the other end of the table; a short, little, fat one, and a long, lean, thin one. We shoved the cakes on down their way. They ate their own and ours, and ordered more. I bet the shoe-man five on the fat one. We ordered more ourselves and pushed them along. The thin man finally began to weaken, but the fat one got stronger every minute.
While the marshal, in some trepidation, regained his grip on the prisoner's arm, the crowd of performers looked at the picture with broad grins on their faces. "Wash up, Jacky," said Grinaldi, stifling a laugh. "Let the rubes see what you really look like," added Signor Anaconda. Dick Cronk proceeded to scrub away the make-up.
He was just the same size all the way from his nose to the tip of his tail, for there was no space between the animals. "Things began to look pretty serious for us, for we had used up all the available small live stock in the surrounding country, and the Rubes got onto the fact that we were up against their game and raised the ante on us for what was left.
"Mean it!" ejaculated Madison. "You're the whole thing, Flopper you win. Come on now, Helena, buck up we've got another little act due in about fifteen minutes don't let a lot of yowling rubes get your goat. Why, say, we've got the whole show on the stampede and we've got to rush our luck." "Sure!" said the Flopper.
These red skins, in the Latin of Hakluyt, pelles rubes, are probably the zaphilines pelles, or sables, of other travellers; converted into red skins by some strange blunder. This fountain of four drinks, seems copied from honest Rubruquis; but with corrections and amendments. Of the Magnificence of the Great Khan.
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