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Updated: June 3, 2025
As Lindquist said to me, his blue eyes filled with pain and rage, "I know his mudder. When Nils ban so high, I yump him by mine knee." So it was that rage over the pitiful fate of their dear friend fanned into flame a spark of rebellion in the squarehead's disciplined souls, and caused them, eventually, to leap the barriers of race and caste prejudice and make common cause with the stiffs.
It was necessary that he accustom some of the crew, even a few stiffs if no more, to follow his leadership. But he couldn't blow big in his own foc'sle, because Holy Joe wouldn't allow it; and he didn't dare lay a curse or a finger on the little parson because he knew if he did the squareheads would jump him in a body.
Ef this ain't the richest thing out! They say there's two more relations o' Spindler's on the coach, come down as express freight, consigned, d'ye hear? consigned to Spindler!" "Stiffs, in coffins?" suggested an eager voice. "I didn't get to hear more. But here they are." There was the sudden irruption of a laughing, curious crowd into the bar-room, led by Yuba Bill, the driver.
I'm a-goin' t' keep them two stiffs in th' boxes until dark, an' then I'm a-goin' to take 'em out, bend a rope around their middle, drop 'em overboard an' anchor 'em there all night. I see th' lad we opens up in No. 1 case has had a beautiful job o' embalmin' done on him, but if I let them soak all night, like a mackerel, they'll limber up an' look kinder fresh.
Why, I'd sooner fight before broke-down old plugs of work-horses that's candidates for chicken-meat, than before them rotten bunches of stiffs with nothin' thicker'n water in their veins, an' Contra Costa water at that when the rains is heavy on the hills." "I... I didn't know prizefighting was like that," she faltered, as she released her hold on the lines and sank back again beside him.
"Ah; you are unconcerned with catastrophes which don't affect man." "Local man," substituted Gootes. "Los Angeles man. Pithecanthropus moviensis. Stiffs in Constantinople are strictly AP stuff." "It seems to me," I broke in, "that you are both assuming too much. I don't know of anything that calls for the word catastrophe.
He ain't got nothing better to do. Pitch into him; give him hell; he likes it. Come one, come all all you moth-eaten, lousy stiffs from Stiffville. Come, tell Simp there's a reporter rubberin' around and you're scared to death. He'll sympathise with you you sweet-scented skates."
"I was on the gravel bank all afternoon. It's steep. Seemed to wrench the cut." "Well," said Cassidy, "I've no kind of use for a man who doesn't know enough to keep himself from getting hurt. You have got to get that foot better right away or get out." He shook a big, hard fist at the swamp. "How'm I going to fill up that pit with a crowd of stiffs and deadbeats like those I'm driving now?
"How many, Swede?" called out a man. "Ay ban ship a crowd of stiffs and some sailor-mans," stated the Swede. Cursing broke out afresh. Some of them must go! The bulk of the crew was to be crimped, of course, in the Swede knew what kennels of the town. But a few tried sailormen must go to leaven that sodden, sea-ignorant lump. It was like condemning men to penal servitude. No wonder they swore.
He is nursing the scum, because this time he will strike through them, instead of through the squareheads." By "scum," Newman meant our unsavory mob of stiffs. And indeed they were being "nursed," and without even suspecting it. Inevitably, the unwonted gentleness of the men aft was interpreted as weakness and fear, and of course their stiffs' courage mounted and slopped over.
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