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Updated: June 22, 2025
"Well, now we're a-goin' in the train like dooks an' after that we're a-goin' to 'ave a rare old beano. I give you my word!" Dickie was full of questions, but Mr. Beale had no answers for them. "You jes' wait;" "hold on a bit;" "them as lives longest sees most" these were the sort of remarks which were all that Dickie could get out of him.
Jimminy, I wouldn't mind 'alf an hour in there, and the doors open and the police away at a beano. Not much! Neither. You'll bust if you eat all them buns." "Have one?" Gerald responded, and held out the bag.
"They won't come over 'ere and fall into the 'ole and then shout to us to let down the trap." He thoughtfully lit a Woodbine. "The 'Un will be strafing if there's a raid on, and there'll be the 'ell of a beano going on, and no one won't never 'ear nothing." With which sage aphorism he relapsed into silence, and a gloom settled on the meeting. "By Jove, you fellows, we must think of something!
We can't converse unless you sit on the floor. I work too hard to spend my evening shouting banalities at the ceiling." "Well, let's hunt for a couch; there are plenty here on ordinary occasions. Isn't it a poser where all the furniture goes to at a 'beano' like this! There's nothing in the hall, nor in the dinning-room; and there doesn't seem to be much here. Let's make for the lounge."
As far as he could see it was only a week or two at the most before everything would be finished up. But notwithstanding the prospect of being out of work so soon he was far happier than he had been for several months past, for he imagined he had discovered the cause of Ruth's strange manner. This knowledge came to him on the night of the Beano.
And when you waggled your whip at them they grinned and waved their hands, and one of them shouted something meant to be jolly." "It just means, lovey," he answered, "that they made up their minds it was a beano after all, and that they'd got wind up about nothing. The mongrel sportsman and the bashful wench in a sun-bonnet were after all, they thought, a genuine substitute for Ned Blossom."
Crass said that in that case a man could either have his money back or he could leave it, and continue his payments even if he were working for some other firm; the fact that he was off from Rushton's would not prevent him from going to the Beano. Harlow proposed that they decide to go to the Queen Elizabeth the same as last year, and that they have half a day.
The two last-named were now working for Smeariton and Leavit, but as they had been paying in from the first, they had elected to go to the Beano rather than have their money back. The Semi-drunk and one or two other habitual boozers were very shabby and down at heel, but the majority of the men were decently dressed. Some had taken their Sunday clothes out of pawn especially for the occasion.
This was greeted with a general murmur of 'Hear, hear, followed by another awkward pause, and then the chairman asked Easton if he would move a resolution to that effect. After some hesitation, Easton agreed, and formally moved: 'That this meeting is in favour of a Beano. The Semi-drunk said that, in order to get on with the business, he would second the resolution.
By ones and twos these also departed, disappearing into the obscurity of the night, until there was none left, and the Beano was an event of the past. The Great Oration The outlook for the approaching winter was as usual gloomy in the extreme. One of the leading daily newspapers published an article prophesying a period of severe industrial depression.
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