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"No; say a gentleman called on theatrical business that will be enough. Wait one minute, if you please. I am a stranger in York; will you kindly tell me which is the way to Coney Street?" The woman gave the required information, the door closed, and the stranger hastened away in the direction of Coney Street. On this occasion Captain Wragge made no attempt to follow him.
Next year, he will probably be the subject of fierce rivalry among Coney Island caterers. Mr. Fuchs gave his testimony with inimitable grace. Mr. Fuchs had also enjoyed the acquaintance and association of Miss Ruff.
The return journey was accomplished much more slowly, because of his precious burden; and as he crossed a field, there, dead in a snare, lay a fine coney. "Now hath Our Lady herself had thought for the poor mother!" cried Hilarius joyously, and added it to his store.
It's some band, though one of these fifteen-piece dance-hall combinations that had just closed a Coney Island engagement and was guaranteed to tear off this affair in zippy style. I left word what station they was to get off at, and 'phoned for a couple of jitneys to meet 'em. For the rest, I was bankin' on my luck.
John Patteson, father of the subject of the present memoir, was son to a clergyman of a Norfolk family, and was born at Coney Weston, on February 11, 1790. He was educated at Eton, and there formed more than one friendship, which not only lasted throughout his life, but extended beyond his own generation. Sport and study flourished alike among such lads as these; and while they were taught by Dr.
No, Esther, I'm afraid I'm chained to this desk. Ask me sometime when you're cruising as far as Coney Island." Io sat silent, and with a set smile, listening to Herbert Cressey's account of an election row in the district where he was volunteer watcher. When the party broke up, she went home with Densmore without giving Banneker the chance of a word with her.
It was built while Cardinal Wolsey was Chancellor, and was still new when Sir Thomas More sat in the hall as his successor. The windows have been altered, and the groining of the archway has been changed for a flat roof. It is said that the bricks of which the gate is built were made in the Coney Garth, which much later remained an open field, but is now New Square.
"What do you make within the Hook, Sir?" "Nothing visible. Our barge is pulling along the land, and the launch appears to be lying off the inlet; ay here is the yawl, resting on its oars without the Romar; but we can find nothing which looks like the cutter, in the range of Coney."
But as she looked at his young beauty her middle-aged face was etched by a gold-toothed smile. "Gee, that's more fun than I've had for a year!" she exclaimed and she melted into helpless laughter. Coney Island is of no value to the fastidious or the lazy.
"Well, say did you ever have a brick house fall on you? well, that's just the way it feels just like when they're digging you out of the ruins. Jack's got a left that spells two matinees and a new pair of Oxfords and his right! well, it takes a trip to Coney and six pairs of openwork, silk lisle threads to make that good." "But what does he beat you for?" inquired Mrs. Fink, with wide-open eyes.
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