DEADWOOD GAMELY TALKS BUSINESS Deadwood Gamely was the village sport and enjoyed a certain prestige because his father was a lawyer.

He was also somewhat of an object of awe because he went to Baxter City every day, and worked in the bank there.
His ramshackle Ford roadster was considered an evidence of the terribly reckless extravagance of his habits, but it was really nothing more than a sort of pocketbook, since all his money went into it, and a very shabby one at that.

He had a cheap wit and swaggeringly condescending air which he practiced on the simple inhabitants of Everdoze, and in his banter he was not always kind.

Yet notwithstanding that he was tawdry both in dress and speech the villagers did not venture much into the conversational arena with him because they knew that they were not his equals in banter and retort.
"Hello, little orphan Annie," he said.

"Bungel was telling me the wagon is coming for you pretty soon.