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"W'y, sure!" shrilled Wunpost, "didn't I tell you I wanted it?" "Well, it's rather unusual," went on Judson Eells lamely, and then he spoke in an aside to his cashier. "No! None of that, now!" burst out Wunpost in a fury, "don't you frame up any monkey-business on me! I want my money, see? And I want it right now! Dig up, or I'll wreck the whole dump!"
"An' Clarence pipes up coughin' all the time: "'Mine's a hundred 'n one 'n 'alf. "An', no one havin' a higher tempriture than that, Clarence captures the pot. It was a queer kind o' game. "Well, on that particular Sunday morning they's some unpleasantness along o' one o' the other one-lungers layin' it out as how Clarence had done some monkey-business to make his tempriture so high.
"Leon," he commenced, "what's the use of making a lot of talk about it. I'm going to talk to you man to man, Leon, and no monkey-business about it nor nothing. I'm going to be plain and straightforward, Leon, and tell it to you right from the start what I want. I don't believe in no beating bushes around, Leon, and when I say a thing I mean it. I got to talk right out, Leon.
I can't get a good office boy any more. I can't get anybody, boy or girl, who wants to do anything but just hold down a job and grab a pay-envelope. Too much schooling! Those inventors and pioneers who came out of New England and made this country from a hunting-ground into an empire they didn't have all this monkey-business in technical schools and trade schools. They just went to work.
What nonsense! BOLSHÓV. If you won't sit down, I'll sit you down, and put an end to your monkey-business! LÍPOCHKA. Who ever heard of educated young ladies being married off to their employees! BOLSHÓV. Better shut up! USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. Say, now, Agraféna Kondrátyevna, if that isn't a pity! AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA. I myself, the mother, am as much in the dark as a clothes-closet.
Now, who could have known that a grown man would indulge in such fool monkey-business as writing love-letters in hieroglyphics to his own wife?... And that blame black mummy. Back to darkest Africa for his! If any one ever said mummy to him there'd be murder done, all right.
"By cripes, I'll kill the first man that comes a step nearer. I won't stand no monkey-business from nobody." "Oh, sure, sure," soothed Bunker, "we know you're the goods nerviest gun-man, I believe, I ever saw. But here's the proposition, you ain't here for your health, you must figure on making a winning somehow.
To his way of thinking the human mind is so highly organized, so different from that of beasts, that not all the proofs of ethnology and physiology would ever induce him to accept the ape-ancestry of man. This monkey-business is too irksome and humiliating to be true; he waives it aside, with a sneer at the disgusting arguments of those Englishmen.
Like as not they didn't know charter was for cargo, and they didn't bother their head about that part of it. Some sort of a sneak game about it, of course, but we've got to mind our P's and Q's now. "The owners nor the charter party can't help us none with it now, say I, and as master ye're got to do as ye see fit. All this monkey-business to-night comes from it.
He waited, listening intently. Not a sound of any sort came to his ears. He stepped inside courageously and slipped with his back to the wall, where he waited, holding his breath. Click! It seemed to come from his right. "Come out o' that!" he snarled. "No monkey-business, or I'll shoot." He flashed his pocket-lamp toward the sound, and aimed.
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