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Updated: June 14, 2025
He had paid nine dollars to hear Patti; to hear Nilsson, he had deserted a ship and two months' wages; and he was ready at any time to walk ten miles for a good concert or seven to a reasonable play. On board he had three treasures: a canary bird, a concertina, and a blinding copy of the works of Shakespeare.
And for the first time he seemed dispirited. "Uncle, you're not making time," said Drake after a few miles. "I'll thank you for the reins. Open your bandanna and get your concertina. Jerk the bellows for us." "That I'll not!" screamed Uncle Pasco. "It's music or walk home," said the boy. "Take your choice." Uncle Pasco took his choice, opening with the melody of "The Last Rose of Summer."
Gunnill, eagerly; "we ought all to help others when we get a chance." Mr. Drill sat bolt upright and looked very wise. He took the smashed helmet from the table and examined it carefully. It was broken in at least half-a-dozen places, and he laboured in vain to push it into shape. He might as well have tried to make a silk hat out of a concertina.
Then slowly, she draws the corners towards, the centre, just as the universe will be crumpled up on the Day of Judgment. It is a beautiful sight. The mouth, which, when she smiled, looked like a sword wound on the flank of a horse, now, when the "pout" is complete, looks like a crumpled concertina.
Some of us wuz always good fer a toon on the concertina, and the rest would dance. We had fun to no end. A girl could have a fly round and a lark or two there I tell you; but here," and she emitted a snort of contempt, "there ain't one bloomin' feller to do a mash with. I'm full of the place. Only I promised to stick to the missus a while, I'd scoot tomorrer.
She listened to faint noises whose strangeness kept her faculties on the alert the fractious yelping of the coyotes, the ceaseless, low symphony of the wind, the distant booming of the frogs about the lake, the lamentation of a concertina in the Mexicans' quarters.
Early in married life Soames had laid down the rule: 'The servants must give us hot dinner on Sundays they've nothing to do but play the concertina. The custom had produced no revolution. For to Soames a rather deplorable sign servants were devoted to Irene, who, in defiance of all safe tradition, appeared to recognise their right to a share in the weaknesses of human nature.
Goldthorpe began to weave stories about its musty squalor. He crossed the road to make a nearer inspection; and as he stood gazing at the dishonoured thresholds, at the stained and cracked boarding of the blind windows, at the rusty paling and the broken gates, there sounded from somewhere near a thin, shaky strain of music, the notes of a concertina played with uncertain hand.
Barring the tobacco, we lay like a baron's men-at-arms in Europe of the Middle Ages, with a captive woman to make sport with in the midst, only rather too self-reliant for the picture. Feeling himself warm, and rested, and full enough of food, Fred flung a cigarette away and reached for his inseparable concertina.
'Felix, do get us three little cannon to make a jolly row every birthday! 'Felix, do you know that Charlie Froggatt says he would sell that big Newfoundland for a pound? and that would be among us all. 'Nonsense, Fulbert! a big dog is always eating; but there is a concertina at Lake's. 'Tina tina concertina!
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