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"Of course I've heard of you, seen your picture in the papers, and all that, and, though I say it that shouldn't, I want to say that I didn't care a rap about those articles you wrote on Mexico. You're wrong, all wrong. You make the mistake of all Gringos in thinking a Mexican is a white man. He ain't. None of them ain't Greasers, Spiggoties, Latin-Americans and all the rest of the cattle.
"I made good on my job from the first, and lived in Quito in a 'dobe house with whacking big Spanish tiles on the roof that I'd rented. And I never had much trouble with the Spiggoties, what of letting them sneak free rides in the tender or on the cowcatcher. Me throw them off? Never! I took notice, when Jack Harris put off a bunch of them, that I attended his funeral muy pronto "
"The man was insane last night, and that accounts for what he said about me. He's been sick for a long time." "If those boys will only keep their mouths shut!" Runnels said, anxiously. "There's no telling what these Spiggoties might do if they heard about that row." "Cortlandt was an American." "But it happened in Panama, and it would be their affair."
"How did you get here?" "With my feet, mistress. Sometimes rode I on the train, but the train people are very common; they h'addressed me rudely and threw me by the wayside." "Couldn't you telephone?" "I do not h'understand 'ow." "Why didn't he notify me at once? If I had only known " "Those 'eartless Spiggoties would not h'allow it. Oh, you will h'assist the poor mon! Say it.
And all at once the mutter merged into a vindictive hiss: "Him with his airs and graces, his fine clothes and greasy manners, putting on the lah-de-dah over them that's stood by him when he hadn't a red and was glad to cadge drinks off spiggoties in hells like the Colonel's at Colon him!" But Lanyard had been listening only with his ears; he hadn't the slightest interest in Mr.
I know all the Spiggoty politicians." "The what?" "The Spiggoties! That's what we call the Panamanians. They 'no spiggoty English'; understand?" "It's a funny name." "Now, my boy, there's one thing I want you to be careful of. Don't let some of these fellows around here get you excited.
"I want a drink." "Let me get it. Those Spiggoties will not give it to you." Allan went to the door and called to the guard. An instant later he returned with a tin cup. "I guess they knocked me out," Kirk said, dazedly. "I never was hit like that before and jailed! Say! We must get out of her. Call the chief or the man in charge, will you? I can't speak the language."
But the other fellows! They died like flies, what of Yellow Jack, pneumonia, the Spiggoties, and the railroad. The trouble was I didn't have much chance to pal with them. No sooner'd I get some intimate with one of them he'd up and die all but a fireman named Andrews, and he went loco for keeps.
"'What the I started to yell, and 'Holy hell, Seth says, as both of us looked at what was on the track. And I agreed with Seth entirely in his remark. It was an Indian girl and take it from me, Indians ain't Spiggoties by any manner of means. Seth had managed to fetch a stop within twenty feet of her, and us bowling down hill at that! But the girl. She " I saw the form of Mrs.
" What of the strike, and me being blacklisted, and getting typhoid down in Australia, and everything," he went on. "And luck was with me on that railroad. Why, I saw fellows fresh from the States pass out, some of them not a week on their first run. If the diseases and the railroad didn't get them, then it was the Spiggoties got them.
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