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Little Calamity was nearer thirty than twenty, wrinkled and weazened and bow-legged. Worse than everything else, he was cross-eyed. The direct and compelling gaze is an absolute necessity in the touting business because the average man believes that the liar will be unable to look him in the eye. Little Calamity could not look any man in the eye without first undergoing a surgical operation.
His language shocked his father before he was twelve, and by that age, what with touting for parcels at the station and selling the Bun Hill Weekly Express, he was making three shillings a week, or more, and spending it on Chips, Comic Cuts, Ally Sloper's Half-holiday, cigarettes, and all the concomitants of a life of pleasure and enlightenment.
I tell you he's got one of the keenest intellects in the country. Why, Lord Wycombe said that " "Oh, who the hell is Lord Wycombe? What you always lugging him in for? You been touting him for the last six weeks!" protested Orville Jones. "George ordered him from Sears-Roebuck. You can get those English high-muckamucks by mail for two bucks apiece," suggested Sidney Finkelstein.
"Well, I don't want anything; and let me say, I don't approve of this touting for custom. I thought Mr. Samuels was above it." The man bowed. "My business is not that, sir. Ahem! I dare say you remember an opal you had from our house. It was set in a necklace." "All right; I remember it, perfectly," said Algernon; cool, but not of the collected colour. "The cost of it was fifty-five pounds, sir."
Oriental life encircled us, in the foreground of the picture a long row of waiting camels gaily saddled and tasselled, delicately nibbling bersim green as heaped emeralds donkeys white and gray, beribboned and beaded small yellow sandcarts; little white, desert horses and tall brown, desert men; camels snarling, donkeys braying, horses whinnying, and men touting.
"Who is this all-round crackerjack you're touting, Dick?" he asked significantly. France was puzzled. "Who is he? Why, he's Steve Fraser." "I ain't asking you what his name is. I'm asking who he is. What does he do for a living? Who recommended him so strong to the boys that they take up with him so sudden?" "I don't care what he does for a living. Likely, he rides the range in Texas.
Since the man was obviously sober, Dick supposed he was touting for business and wanted to assure the merchants that the sailings of the company's steamers could be relied upon. Still, this kind of thing was not good British form. By and by Don Sebastian came down a ladder from the saloon deck with Clare behind him. Dick felt tempted to retire but conquered the impulse and the Spaniard came up.
Among the women who were thus touting for lodgers, there was a tall, well-built girl, dressed like a superior servant, and looking very clean, with carefully tended hands. She glanced at Madame Vincent and slightly shrugged her shoulders.
I'll say for the Whigs, they would not be seen touting for Tories if they were not ghosts of Whigs. You are dead. There is no doubt of it. 'But, Grancey Lespel repeated, 'if there's no doubt about it, how is it I have a doubt about it? 'The Whigs preached finality in Reform. It was their own funeral sermon. 'Nonsensical talk!
With the development of the arts of advertising, touting, adulteration, political jobbery, and speculation, acting over an ever-widening area of competition, the fight between the large joint stock businesses grows always more cruel and complex. Business failures tend to become more frequent and more disastrous.
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