The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-23
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Bunting? Oh Lord. and promised to
give you an adult weapon The kind
they've put on 10 ca. dinner in"
"Talllin' secrets. boss?" said Half
past Full.
The well-meaning Sam filled his cup,
and this proceeding shifted the buc-
caroo's truculent attention.
whats that mud?" he demanded.
Coffee" said Sam, politely.
The buccaroo swept his cup TO the
ground. and the next man howled dis
may
Burn yourpoor legs?" said Half-past.
lie poured his glass over the victim.
They wrestled, the company pounded
the table, betting hoarsely, until Half
past went to the floor, and his plate with
him.
"Go easy" said Drake. "You're smash
ing the company's property"
"Bald-headed china for sure. boss!"
said second of the brothers Drinker,
and dropped dish.
I'll merely tell you" said Drake,
"that the company don't pay for this
china twice"
Not twice?" said Half-past Full,
smashing some more. ''How about
thrice?"
want your money now?" another
inquired.
A riot of banter took all Of them, and
they began to laugh and destroy.
"lIow much did this cost?" said one,
prying aslxew his three-tined fork.
How much did you cost yourself?"
said another to Drake.
"What, our kid boss? Two bits,
guess"
"Hyas markoolS. Too dear!"
They bawlcd at their jokes. loud and
ominous; threat sounded beneath their
lightest word, the new crashes of things
they threw on the floor struck sharply
through the foreboding din of their
mirth. The spirit that Drake since his
arrival had kept under in them day by
day but not quelled, rose visibly each
few succeeding minutes, swelling up
ward as the tide does. Buoyed upon t.e
whisky. it glittered in their eyes and
yelled mutinously in their voices.
I'm waiting all ORDERS" said Bolles
TO Drake.
81 haven't any," said Drake. "New
ones, that is. We've sat down to sec i
This meal out. Got to keep sitting"
He leaned back, eating deliberately,
| saying no more to the buccaroos; thus
they saw he would never leave the room
Till they did. AS he had taken his chair
the first, so was the BOY bound "a quit
II the last. The game of prying fork
tines stalled on them one by one, md
T, they took TO songs, mostly of love and
parting. With the red whisky in their
eyes, they shouted plaintively of sweet
hearts, and vows. and lips, and meeting
in the wild wood. From these they went
20 ballads OF the cattle trail and The
Yuba river, and SO inevitably worked
TO the old coast song, made of three
languages. and verses rhymed on each
year since the beginning. Tradition
laid il heavy upon each singer in his
turn 20 keep the pot a-boiing by mem
ory or new invention. ANA the chant
went forward with hypnotic cadence
20 a tune of larkish. ripping gaic'y.
lie who had read over his old stained
letters in the sorrowful corner had
Ndhtu SUM ohN III"
sang:
"Once. jes' onced IN the year 80
met fancy thing by the name o Jassa-
mine:
never could persuade her for to leave
me be-
She went and she took ard she married
me.
His neighbor took IL u-:
"once once again IN the year o. "a.
By the city OF Whntcom. down along the
shore
never could persuade them for TO leave
siwash squaw went and took and mar
ried me-"
What was you doin' between all
them years?" called lIalf-past-Full.
"Shut yer mouth" said the next
singer.
once, once aFain I'm the year o. II
1t was the suddenest deed that ever
] never could persuade them for to leave
me be-
A rich bankers daughter she took and
married me-"
"This is looking better" said Bolles
TO Drake.
I'm not so sure" said the boy.
Ten or IA dozen years were sung.
81 never could persuade them for 10
leave me be-" brought down the chorus