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Updated: May 25, 2025
"'The outfit is one of them little old jim-crow shows that charges two-bits an' stays a month; an' by the end of the first day, me an' the clown gets wropped up like brothers; which I'm like one of the fam'iy! I fetches water an' he'ps rub hosses an', speakin' gen'ral, does more nigger work than I ever crosses up with prior endoorin' my entire life.
"Not that I know of," she gurgled between gasps; "but what does it mean?" I explained, but I do not remember now whether or not I got that two-bits out of her; but I have often wondered since as to which of us was the provincial. When I arrived at the depot, I found, much to my disgust, a bunch of at least twenty tramps that were waiting to ride out the blind baggages of the overland.
I there learned, much to my surprise, that the rise in the price of wheat had killed the silver cause; also that W. J. Bryan had "said, in that pose of easy omniscience for which he became remarkable, that 'a bushel of wheat and an ounce of silver were ordained by nature to become equal each to the other' 'wheat cannot rise unless silver rises. " If W. J. Bryan said that, even in his salad days, he's a hopeless damphool, unfit to be pound-master, much less president; but I'll pay two-bits for incontestable evidence that he ever made such an idiotic remark.
"We 'ad two big mitting' about it," interrupted Raoul; "my bro'r-in-law speak at both of them!" "Who?" "Chahlie Mandarin." "Glad to hear it," said Doctor Keene, which was the truth. "Besides that, I know Laussat has gone to Martinique; that the Américains have a newspaper, and that cotton is two-bits a pound. Now what I want to know is, how are my friends? What has Honoré done?
"May I replace the violets you left at the Mission?" he asked, as stepping from the car at Lotta's fountain, we lingered before the gay flower stands edging the sidewalk. Before I had a chance to reply a fragrant bunch was thrust into his hands by an urchin who announced: "Two for two-bits." "Two-bits is twenty-five cents," I interpreted, seeing the Easterner's mystified look.
I'm a crack machinist.... Give me two-bits for a meal, anyway." Mr. Boltwood reached in his change pocket. He had no quarter. He pulled out a plump bill-fold. Without looking at the man, Claire could vision his eyes glistening and his chops dripping as he stared at the hoard. Mr. Boltwood handed him a dollar bill. "There, take that, and let's change the subject," said Mr. Boltwood testily.
It's fitting that I call Carter what he is, and he's a skinflint. He is only paying Abe and me ten cents a day." "Other folks pay you two-bits." "I ain't got any other work right now. Carter knows I need all the money I can lay my hands on. The way he beat me down on the price for my south field." "I wish you didn't have to sell." "Wishing won't do any good. I need cash money mighty bad.
A hundred and forty miles from the station, "air-line," sounded to me like a pretty stiff proposition to go up against; also, how was a fellow going to put up at a hotel when he hadn't the coin? Would my mysterious guide be shocked to learn that John A. Carleton's son and heir had landed in a strange land without two-bits to his name? Jerusalem!
He'd take the dollar, get it changed, and be two-bits ahead, every time. But I got to drift along. Say, amigo, if any of my friends come a-boilin down this way, jest tell 'em that Pete that's me was in a hurry, and headed east. Sabe?" "Si." "Pete with the black sombrero." Andy touched his hat. "Si. 'Pete." "Adios. Wisht I could take a goat along. That milk was sure comfortin'."
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