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Updated: June 19, 2025
When I had a better look at this one he appeared to be really very young, and perhaps just a little gawky, and he wore the most appreciably store-clothes, and the funniest little black string of a neck-tie. Isn't it queer that silly things should enter one's head at such times?
One was prepared, in this wild region of forest, to behold some savage types of men; indeed, I craved to renew the vanished scenes of old. But, alas! one beheld, instead, men with well-washed, unpainted faces, and combed and common hair; men in suits of ordinary "store-clothes," and some even with "boiled" if not laundered shirts. One felt disappointed, almost defrauded.
Why, the man that worked the next claim to me was a college graduate, and not far away was another who had been mayor of a Western city." "And were they dressed like these men here?" asked Ben. "Quite as roughly. It won't do to wear store-clothes at the mines." "No, I suppose not; but these men look like immigrants just come over." Bradley laughed.
And we'll have to hole up somewhere till we git some store-clothes and change our looks and mebby our luck, which is runnin' bad right now." "Do we split up when we hit town?" queried Pete. "We got to: and you want to git rid of that there cash just as quick as you kin. Got any of your own money on you?" "Got a couple of month's pay. You got the tickets. I'll give you that." "Forget it!
That's how ragged Pat Rafferty went down to San Francisco yesterday in store-clothes, and his wife and four children went off in a kerridge to Sacramento. Thet's why them ten workmen of his, ez hadn't a cent to bless themselves with, was playin' billiards last night, and eatin' isters.
Equipped and armed for conquest, then, she came into the room with a very tolerable affectation of unconcern. Altogether, it was a quite effective entrance. "I've been for a little drive, Billy," she mendaciously informed him. "That's how you happen to have the opportunity of seeing me in all my nice new store-clothes. Aren't you pleased, Billy? No, don't you dare get up!"
Do I rig up in uncomfortable store-clothes, and parade before the country and city girls and try to persuade the one I can get, probably not the one I would want to marry me, and come here and spoil all our good times? Do we want a woman around scolding if we are away from home, whining because she is lonesome, fretting for luxuries we cannot afford to give her?
To the eye that did not survey Walt through the rose-coloured glasses of affection he appeared merely as a high-shouldered, slab-sided young Boer, whose cheap store-clothes bagged where they did not crease, and whose boots curled upwards at the toes with mediæval effect.
He was younger than the other, looked like a farm-hand, was dressed partly in homespun, partly in "store-clothes," wore a weather-stained wool hat, and his sullen face terminated in a goatee. The first-comer looked him over an instant, and then said: "Were you out late last night?" "I was," replied the second-comer, scanning his interrogator. "Did you see a star?" "I did." "What star was it?"
Women had a bit of colour in their hats or at their throats, and the men had on clean white collars and suits of "store-clothes" a sign of being on pleasure bent. Young men and girls on rough but serviceable mounts cantered past, laughing and joking, and their loud talking grated on the ear of the girl who had seen a Napoleon in the streets of his Moscow.
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