United States or Niue ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


The captain misunderstands her and gallantly tries one himself, saying, "It holds me, Madam." As he is at least sixteen stone in weight this sends Joyce off into fits of irrepressible giggles, luckily drowned by the band, which is making an ear-splitting noise "La-la-la, la-la-la!" One man bangs an instrument like those called harmonicons, with slats of metal set across it all the way up.

Bangs," he said, "I cal'late you must think it's kind of queer my not sayin' a word to you about what happened t'other night over to the house." Galusha, who had been thinking of something else and was mentally thousands of miles away on the banks of the Nile, in fact regarded him rather vacantly. "Eh? Oh um yes, of course," he stammered. "I beg your pardon."

"On the other side? Yes ah quite so." "Oh, that was just his way of speaking, Mr. Bangs. I tried to change the subject. I asked him if he didn't think we should report the engine trouble to the inspector when he came next month. It was a mistake, my saying that. He got up from his chair. 'I'm going to report, he said. 'I'm going to make my report aloft and ask for guidance.

He got in at last, slightly peevish at our unbrotherly welcome, and took his place in the library circle. We were explaining the whole situation to him, when Allie Bangs gave an earnest yell and stood on his head in the corner. "What did you say your name was?" he asked the visitor after he had been set right side up again. "Maxwell, of Fella Kappa chapter," said the latter.

"The horse stopped runnin' soon's he got to the foot of the next hill." Mrs. Beasley was not, apparently, overjoyed at the news. "Humph!" she grunted. "I 'most wish he'd broke his neck! Pesky, careless thing! gettin' us run away with and upset. Who's goin' to pay for fixin' my sulky, I want to know?" "Mr. Bangs will pay for it, I'm sure," said Phoebe soothingly. "If he doesn't, I will. Oh, Mrs.

But what was Blaine's surprise to see Bangs, not a hundred yards away, making bold signals strange code to the Germans back in the rear. Lafe himself could not read them. What did it mean? For an instant there flashed to him a suspicion that Bangs from Montana might not be just plain American. "I won't think such a thing!" thought Lafe. "What is he up to?"

'Honour! said Sir Henry sharply, as he got on his feet. 'Honour! sneered Mannering 'what's honour? It means one thing to me and another to you. Aubrey bangs me over the head with it. But I'm like the Doctor in the Punch and Judy show he thinks he's knocked me flat. He hasn't. I've a new argument every time he comes.

The envelope and the wax he had procured at a stationer's near the South Station. The obliging salesman had permitted him to do the sealing on the premises. "Mr. Barbour," he faltered, "I should like to leave this with you, if if quite convenient, that is to say." Barbour turned the big envelope over. "Yes, Mr. Bangs, surely," he said, but he looked puzzled. "What is it?"

If he had been formally sitting on a chair, holding his hat, he would have been a self-conscious and unhappy young man. As it was, with hands and eyes busy, and wholly at his ease, he talked his exuberant best. "How about Laurie's romance?" Louise asked at once. Bangs told her about the vision in the mirror. As he did so, luncheon was served, and he was casually invited to share it.

When he first arrived in town and gave out the news of his mission and issued a general call for tips he was welcomed heartily by everybody; the women, especially, hoped that he would find the villains and put them where they could not threaten unprotected females. Mr. Bangs had not been able to spend his money for food at farmhouses; the women would not accept any pay, and gave him their best.