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Updated: June 14, 2025
Sometimes of an evening Joan danced on deck to the music of the concertina dances which had their origin largely with herself fantastic, touched off with some unexpected sleight of foot almost uncanny at times to Bissonnette, whose temperament could hardly go her distance when her mood was as this.
The cook, who was fingering her concertina, for which she had a passion, answered: "She 'ides up her feelin's, same as they all does. Thank 'eaven she haven't got that drawl, though, that 'er old aunt 'as always makes me feel to want to say, 'Buck up, old dear, you ain't 'alf so precious as all that!"
In the pleasantly-lit saloon some of the elder subsided into whist, while the juniors sought the middies in their cabin on the main-deck, next door to the sheep-pen; there they entertained themselves and each other with songs, accompanied by the concertina and clouds of tobacco-smoke. The progress of the ship was a subject of constant interest.
What seemed particularly dreadful was that doves were flying over the fire in the smoke; and in the tavern, where they did not yet know of the fire, they were still singing and playing the concertina as though there were nothing the matter. "Uncle Semyon's on fire," shouted a loud, coarse voice.
Linton had apologised to his horses during his first week of occupancy and, in the second, turning them out to grass with less apology, had pulled down the rickety old sheds, replacing them with a compact and handsome building of red brick, with room for half a dozen buggies, men's quarters, harness and feed rooms, many loose boxes and a loft where a ball could have been held and where, indeed, many a one was held, when all the young farmers and stockmen and shearers from far and near brought each his lass and tripped it from early night to early dawn, to the strains of old Andy Ferguson's fiddle and young Dave Boone's concertina.
I shall never forget the concertina motions of the ship during yesterday's and Wednesday's fore and aft nips. "July 24. Compared with previous days this is a quiet one. The lanes have been opening and closing, and occasionally the ship gets a nasty squeeze against the solid floe on our starboard quarter.
Fun! there WAS fun! The room was cleared and they promenaded for a dance Sandy and Kate in the lead. They continued promenading until one of the well-sinkers called for the concertina ours had been repaired till you could get only three notes out of it; but Jim Burke jumped on his horse and went home for his accordion. Dance! they did dance! until sun-rise.
And, if you get holt of a fiddle or a concertina, don't rasp or swank too much on old tunes, when he's round, for the Oracle can't stand it. Play something lively. He'll be down there at that surveyor's camp yarning till all hours, so we'll have plenty of time for the story but don't you ever give him a hint that you know.
With this triumph, the volume of the sound increased greatly; and from its tones I inferred that the instrument was a concertina, and that whoever played it was in the inner court-yard of the hotel.
But when the meal was over, the visitors went to another room with their arms, and lighted their own fire. They brought blankets from their saddles, and after a little concertina they permitted the nearly perished Uncle Pasco to slumber. Soon they slumbered themselves, with the door left open, and Drake watching.
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