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Western Avernus (1924) 186: I wish I’d killed the bastard.at bastard, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 186: I wish I’d killed the bastard. Western Avernus (1924) 182: There remained but ‘beating.’ I had to find a freight or goods train, and in it [...] secrete myself, so that I might be taken to Portland without any one knowing.at beat, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 153: ‘Oh, get on board the Teaser and beat your way,’ or, [...] in English, cheat the steamer by stowing away.at beat one’s way (v.) under beat, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 149: Get up, or I’ll knock seven bells out of you.at knock seven bells out of (v.) under bell, n.1
Western Avernus (1924) 173: You can bet your life it [i.e. a town] will be livelier when you leave.at bet one’s (sweet) life (v.) under bet, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 217: I’ve only got seven dollars and six bits.at six bits (n.) under bit, n.1
Western Avernus (1924) 184: Some men travel on [...] the baggage car at the end where there is no door – the ‘blind baggage’ as it is called.at blind, n.2
Western Avernus (1924) 185: The fireman and brakie and the conductor came huntin’ me.at brakie, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 57: Some of the boys said it was a regular hand-out, and that we looked like a crowd of old bummers.at bummer, n.3
Western Avernus (1924) 186: If the ‘con’ had found us on the other side the dollar would have been paid and yet part of the ride lost.at con, n.1
Western Avernus (1924) 118: They told me about a horse, which was worth 40 dols.at dol, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 143: I nearly fired him the first morning [...] I thought he wasn’t any good.at fire, v.2
Western Avernus (1924) 57: Some of the boys said it was a regular hand-out, and that we looked like a crowd of old bummers.at hand-out, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 186: Hallo, boys, how are you making it?at make it, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 158: Railroading is considered [...] a ‘low-down job,’ nearly as bad as the dog’s meat man.at lowdown, adj.
Western Avernus (1924) 160: I tramped into that little settlement [...] ‘peted,’ done up.at peted (adj.) under peter out, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 33: They [...] asked us to sit down with them and pile in.at pile in (v.) under pile, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 157: We ran on, fighting the stream at intervals, but ‘making the riffle’, or crossing the rapid. [Ibid.] 217: I had ‘made that riffle’ at any rate, and was not compelled to risk [...] stowing away.at make the riffle (v.) under riffle, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 43: He called the bridgeman a very opprobrious name, and for a moment there was great danger of a ‘rough house’ out of hand.at roughhouse, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 149: I’m not [staying] if I can rustle through.at rustle, v.
Western Avernus (1924) 143: ‘Rustler’ [...] means a worker, an energetic one, and no slouch can be a rustler.at rustler, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 220: My house is full up now. You might stand a show at the Arizona Hotel.at stand a show (v.) under show, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 109: There was no work to be done except railroad work, and of that I had had a sickener.at sickener, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 183: [The] ‘side-door Pullman’ as the ‘tramps’ and ‘dead-beats’ facetiously call it [i.e. a freight car].at side-door Pullman (n.) under side, adj.
Western Avernus (1924) 186: ‘Ain’t you going to let us ride?’ ‘Not by a darn sight.’.at by a long sight (adv.) under sight, n.2
Western Avernus (1924) 152: ‘Siwash’ [in Chinook jargon] is an Indian, and ‘sitcum siwash’ a half-breed.at siwash, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 109: ‘Come, step up, boys, what’s your liquor?’ ‘Take a smile.’.at smile, n.1
Western Avernus (1924) 165: There was a [...] Welshman whom we all called Taffy.at Taffy, n.
Western Avernus (1924) 185: The ‘universal ticket,’ a board with notches in it to fit on the iron stays under the passenger coaches.at universal ticket (n.) under ticket, n.1
Western Avernus (1924) 165: He was always fighting and always getting whipped.at whipped, adj.
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