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In hope that she would be deterred by exaggeration, he dwelt on the subject. "The gunmen and hoss thieves and tinhorn gamblers all come in on the rush. There's a lot of them hobos and wobblies reds and anarchists and such floatin' round the country, and they're sure to be in on it, too. I reckon any of them would cut a throat or down a man for two bits in lead money.
It was not good taste to give a second invitation; evidently Dewing had strong reasons for desiring his company. "If this tinhorn thinks he can pump me, I'll let him try it a while," he reflected. He glanced at his watch. "Three o'clock. I'll tell you what I'll do with you, Dewing," he said: "I'll disport round till supper-time, if I last that long. But I can't go very strong.
"Besides saying the stranger was dealing from the bottom did Dale use any other fighting words?" "He called him a tinhorn," burst simultaneously from the lips of McFluke and Peaches Austin. "Only two this time," said Racey, shooting a swift glance at Jack Harpe and overjoyed to find the latter dividing a glare of disgust between McFluke and Austin. "But you'll have to do better than that." Mr.
"Didn't anybody want it, Jap?" Mrs. Toomey asked timidly. "Want it?" angrily. "'Tinhorn' thought it was some kind of a tony cuspidor, and a round-up cook offered me a dollar and a half for it to set bread sponge in." "Never mind," soothingly, "I'm sure Mrs. Sudds will take the teapot." "We can't live all winter on a teapot," he answered gloomily.
It was a relief, though, when he stopped screaming. Others whom the cries of agony awakened applied the same reasoning to the situation, with minor variations. "Tinhorn" in particular was disturbed because of their nearness.
Then, with all the deliberation of an intentional insult he retilted his chair, returned his heels to the rungs and replaced his cigar while he surveyed her with a quite indescribable insolence. "Tinhorn" had no special reason for the act and it served no purpose; it was merely the instinctive act of the bully who strikes in wanton cruelty at something or somebody he knows cannot retaliate.
In spite of the efforts which brought beads of perspiration out on the broad forehead of their host, Essie Tisdale appeared with the first course mid a ghastly silence. "I hardly ever drink tea," observed Mr. Rhodes, for the purpose, merely, of making conversation. "Oh, my Gawd, Tinhorn, that ain't tea, it's bullion!" Mrs.
In the centre of the floor the new plasterer and his wife moved through the figures of the French minuet with the stiff-kneed grace of two self-conscious giraffes, while Mrs. Percy Parrott, a long-limbed lady with a big, white, Hereford-like face, capered with "Tinhorn Frank," the oily, dark, craftily observant proprietor of the "Walla Walla Restaurant and Saloon." Mr.
An hour later Buck Byington drew Sanders aside. "Dave, you're a chuckle-haided rabbit. If ever I seen tinhorn sports them two is such. They're collectin' a livin' off'n suckers. Didn't you sabe that come-on stuff? Their pack-horse is a ringer. They tried him out this evenin', but I noticed they ran under a blanket. Both of 'em are crooked as a dog's hind laig." "Maybeso," admitted the young man.
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