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No, I don't think I feel like playing this evening. If we are going to reform we may as well abandon the evil habit of banjo-playing, too." She took up a book and sat in her little willow rocker on the other side of the table. Neither of them spoke for half an hour.
"It has certainly been a very mixed evening, Alice," she said, as she took the pins out of her back hair and let it fall; and she continued to talk as she went back and forth between their rooms. "What do you think of banjo-playing for young ladies? Isn't it rather rowdy? Decidedly rowdy, I think. And Dan's Yankee story! I expected to see the old gentleman get up and perform some trick."
By a good three hundred yards the shot had failed to carry the line over the vessels. "There's Mr. Bradford," said Carroll, waving her hand. "I wish he'd come and tell us something about it." The banjo-playing village Brummell saw the signal and came, his face grave. "Couldn't they get the lifeboats out to them?" asked Carroll as he approached. "You see that one," said Bradford, pointing.
The constable was now in a fury. "If he locks up a man for banjo-playing " murmured Mr. Daddles, "He'll have us burned at the stake," suggested Jimmy Toppan. I had been feeling very unhappy ever since we arrived in the police-station. It looked to me as if we were in a pretty bad fix.
The crop is "laid by," and the summer holidays have begun. Three days of rest before the gathering in begins. Over at the quarter, the young people fill the long, lazy day with patting and dancing, banjo-playing and watermelon-eating. The elders, for the most part, are absorbed in preparations for the big holiday dinner.
Perhaps I have seen too much of seals, but I find the range of their accomplishments limited, and their impatience for fish and lump sugar too frankly greedy before and after each act. Their banjo-playing is of a most casual and irrelevant sort; they ring bells, to be sure; in extreme cases they fire small cannon; and their feat of balancing large and little balls on their noses is beyond praise.
He would take this box into the bathroom with him and eat while he lay in the hot water until he was overcome by the enervating warmth and by the steam and would then drop off to sleep. It was during these days that Vandover took up his banjo-playing seriously, if it could be said that he did anything seriously at this time.
She knew that the others thought she was fussy and overparticular, and that helped to make her thoroughly uncomfortable. The fretful wail of a sick baby sounded at intervals from the tent. The banjo-playing had stopped on their arrival. It was nearly noon when the six children came straggling out of the tent. "I wouldn't have missed it for anything!" said Eugenia, triumphantly.
He wrote and told me the fact, but gave no reasons. Poor Walker! I do not wish him punished, because I know Michael would think it was largely my own fault for putting banjo-playing before character. If Walker had written me a begging letter, I should most likely have sent him the money. I have a fatal habit of believing in people, and of wanting everybody to be happy."
Colonel Lee had been transferred from West Point to the command of the Second United States Cavalry on the Mexican Border at the same time that Stuart's regiment was moved to Kansas. The rollicking song-loving, banjo-playing Virginian had early distinguished himself as an Indian fighter. He had been dangerously wounded, but recovered with remarkable rapidity.
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