He had only paused at Maxy Schaffer's Railroad Hotel to partake of what he called a Kentucky breakfast-a drink of whisky and a chew of tobacco-a simple dietary protection against the evils of an empty stomach, to which he particularly drew Custer's attention.
"The Just and the Unjust"
Vaughan Kester
He jogged past Maxy Schaffer's Railroad Hotel at the corner of Front Street, which flung the wicked radiance of its bar-room windows along the shining railroad track where it crossed the creek on the new iron bridge; and keeping on down Water Street with its smoky tenements, entered an outlying district where the lamps were far apart and where red and blue and green switch lights blinked at him out of the storm.
"The Just and the Unjust"
Vaughan Kester
Mr Maxy Million comes a hordrin an a swerin at a pore suvvant lik ennythink, an thare aint know pleesing im.
"By Birth a Lady"
George Manville Fenn