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After an evening with the little volume he had purchased for twenty-five cents in the second-hand bookshop he ordered changes that enabled him to cut five men from the pay-roll and at the same time do the work more expeditiously and efficiently. "Little book," he said one evening, "I take my hat off to you. You are the best two-bits' worth I ever purchased."
Say, I'll tell you what we'll do: I'll wait a little, and then send Field to the store and have him git whatever you need, and pretend it's all for himself. Then we'll lug it up the hill and slide it into the cabin slick as a lead two-bits." "Can't let you do it," said Jim. "Why not?" demanded Webber. Jim hesitated before he drawled his reply.
Poor indeed was the old darkey who could not find two-bits to wager on the race; small, indeed, the piccaninny who was not wise enough in the sophisticated ways of games of chance to lay a copper with a comrade or to join a pool by means of which he and his fellows were enabled to participate in more important methods of wooing fickle Fortune.
I wonder if that beautiful young Frenchwoman would remember, at this late day, the laugh I gave her when I uttered the barbaric phrase, "two-bits." You see, I was trying delicately to hit them for a "light piece." That was how the sum of money came to be mentioned. "What?" she said. "Two-bits," said I. Her mouth was twitching as she again said, "What?"
When I next visit San Antonio I'll testify my gratitude by giving Lewis 50 cents instead of the usual two-bits for toting my grip from the "Sap" depot to the Menger hotel. I once said, "There are some very decent and brainy Englishmen;" but as all Englishmen in this country repudiate the soft impeachment, I hasten to acknowledge my error.
He knows crawfish like a gambler does a red chip; so turnin' his eyes up to the sky, like a raccoon does who's wropped in pleasant anticipations that a-way, he plunges in his paw an' gets it. "Once Zekiel acquires him, the pore crawfish don't last as long as two-bits at faro-bank. When Zekiel has him plumb devoured he turns his eyes on Olson, sorter thankful, an' 'waits developments.
In the East a change purse is scorned by anything masculine, but here all the men carry one, I don't know why not in the East, nor why in the West. Blessed old "two-bits" and a "dollar six-bits" are the only woolly things left over from the old wild West. What else oh, I could keep on for pages. "Stay with it" is Western and has lots more feeling I think than "stick to it."
I've dropped an egg and what in the world shall I do?" "Cackle, man, cackle," Van answered him gravely. "That's a mighty rare occurrence." "And two-bits apiece!" almost wailed poor Gettysburg, diving back into the cabin, "and only them four in the shack!" That was also the day that Bostwick came out upon the scene.
The process of lubrication was brief; and "Have another?" queried the tramp. "I ain't all broke only I ain't payin' dividen's, bein' hard times." "Keep your two-bits," said the puncher. "This is on me. You're goin' to furnish the chaser, Go to it and cinch up them there 'saddest." "Bein' just two-bits this side of bein' a socialist, I guess I'll keep me change.
"That's where she was keen, all right; she never breathed a word about you; only made me feel like two-bits in a fog for having turned her down." "If I had been you I would have roasted her right there, fired the whole string at her." This was the point for which the jilted man had come into Cap's room.
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