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"Well, I'd ben a-running' a little temperance revival thar 'bout a week, and was the pet of the women folks, big and little, for I was makin' it mighty warm for the rummies, I TELL you, and takin' as much as five or six dollars a night ten cents a head, children and niggers free and business a-growin' all the time, when somehow or another a little report got around last night that I had a way of puttin' in my time with a private jug on the sly.
As long as such attractions are relied on, you will have your Snobbies claiming to have beaten their mothers when they were as a matter of prosaic fact habitually beaten by them, and your Rummies of the tamest respectability pretending to a past of reckless and dazzling vice.
In every New England school district there are generally factions and parties as in larger political divisions; it divides on all kinds of issues, political, religious or social. I am giving my experience, not for its personal value, but as the average picture of the average school district. This particular district was sharply split by the temperance party and the rummies.
Sheriff," she said, evenly; "if you will stand aside, I shall be glad to leave you." Moreton grinned, admiringly. "You've sure got a heap of nerve, ma'am," he complimented; "I'll say that for you! I don't know what your game is, but you're mighty clever though you're wastin' your time out here in the sagebrush. You ought to stay East where there's a lot more rummies than there is out here!"
"You seem to be on very intimate terms with the foreign nobility," Wanda replied quietly, though she kept her dancing eyes away from him. Willie Dart lifted his shoulders. "Them rummies don't qualify for finals, when you come to know 'em, Wanda. Honest, they don't. I never got the mit of one of 'em in my fist it didn't feel like a dead fish. There ain't a one. Say!
"Damn that chicken!" murmured Fred by way of praying fervently, pausing in the breach in the wall to rub his shin. "Feel that bruise, will you! No young woman ever brought me luck yet!" "What are you waiting for?" complained a voice from outer darkness. "Come on, you rummies!" Fred sat down on the protruding stone that had injured his shin, and detained me with his arm across the opening.
The boys wanted me to play 'high-five' until train-time; I picked up a little 'perfumery money, and came up here to Kansas City to spend Saturday night and Sunday. "There 's a lot of 'rummies' I used to know hanging around here, 'broke. They 've all 'got their hand out. One of them made me a talk last night for enough to get to St. Louis on said he 'must get there.
The men up for office are dependent for election on the votes of the saloon men and their following. You will cut your head off sure if you come out against them in public. They can't be elected without the votes of the rummies, and they know it. Better steer clear of it, Mr. Strong.
"'Sorry Seven, we'd better call ourselves, I say, and to-morrow I'm for moving, striking camp at daylight and getting away from that gang that camps with rugs." The last word took on the expression of an article of actual disgrace. "Hello! They're running up the colors," interrupted Bob. "It's a Union Jack, all right. Perhaps they're not such rummies, after all."
After one of these sad Affairs, at which the Rummies had balled up the whole Menu, Claudine came to the front with an Ultimatum. She said she was going to can the awful Birthplace and spend the remainder of her Natural among the real Rowdy-Dows. "Right-o, Babe!" spoke up Elam.
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