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It was already after tea-time, and she abandoned tea altogether, and prepared to console herself for her exclusion from gaiety with a "good blow-out" in the shape of regular dinner, instead of the usual muffin now and a tray later. She had meant to send it to-day, but all this misery and anxiety had put it out of her head.
It's an amulet; only as it's used to stop the flow of blood from the wound of a captive seal, it is supposed to be the best of all charms for anyone who spits blood." "I'll clean 'em all after the Blow-Out," said Mac, and he went out, buried the charms in the snow, and stuck up a spruce twig to mark the spot.
When they et a meal, we et ourn, and it made it ever so much home-liker to have their company. When they had a wedding that night, and Buck and Addy got married, we got ourselves up in the very starchiest of the professor's duds for the blow-out, and when they danced we jined in and shook a foot up there.
Two minutes later, with the city ahead fast looming like a barrier before them, Garrison leaned to the tube. "Slow down!" he called. "Our friend has quit a blow-out. Get down to lawful speed." Even then they ran fully half a mile before the excited creature of wheels and fire could be tamed to calmer behavior.
Pop's goin' to spend a lot of money on refreshments an' it'll be the biggest blow-out Chazy County ever seen!" "I think I can write up the party without being present, Mollie," suggested Louise. "No; you come over. I read once, in a novel, how an editor come to a swell party an' writ about all the dresses an' things said what everybody wore, you know.
"We found him not far from the track, near the blow-out," Hazelton explained. "Whether he attended to that bit of bad work all alone, or whether his companions believed him dead and fled for their own safety, I can't learn. Bad Pete won't say a word. He was unconscious when we first discovered him. Now he knows what's going on around him, but he's too badly hurt to do more than hold his tongue."
"He can so," said Murty. "Wance he's gone round that thrack he can live on the fat of the land an' Billy, too. It's a dale aisier to get the condition off a horse than off Billy. No man on this earth 'ud make a black fellow see why he shouldn't have a good blow-out whenever it came his way. Only that Providence made him skinny by nature, he'd be fat as a porpoise this day.
The last-named gentleman had given what he was pleased to call a "blow-out" to his regular patrons in celebration of the granting of the license, and "Squealer" Wixon and one or two more spent a dreary day and night in the town lock-up in consequence. Baxter told the Captain that he had not yet made up his mind concerning the proposed Boston trip, but he thought "more 'n likely" he should go.
This had represented his first blow-out, as he called it, with his patrons; his first successful attempt though there was little other success about it to bring them to a consideration of his impossible position. As the ostensible eve of a costly journey the moment had struck him as favourable to an earnest protest, the presentation of an ultimatum.
No you'll come wi' me down to the Sailors' Welcome near the dock-gates, where you can get a good bed for sixpence a night, a heavy blow-out for tenpence, with a splendid readin'-room, full o' rockin' chairs, an' all the rest of it for nothin'. An there's a lavatory that's the name that they give to a place for cleanin' of yourself up a lavatory where you can wash yourself, if you like, till your skin comes off!
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