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This method of swindling is still very popular with the rogues of the city. The headquarters of this game are in the neighborhood of the City Hall and Printing-house Square. "The 'little joker' is a very simple trick, and yet, from its very simplicity, all the more successful in entrapping the unwary. Often the former is dispensed with, and the crown of a hat or the knees used instead.
Fifth Avenue expressions are a filling meal for the prowling lonely joker; but what will most satisfy his cannibal appetite is the passage of the self-conscious men and women.
After we have finished you are going to serve us exactly as I served you." Naturally, this proposition amazed the "help"; in fact, its absurdity convulsed them. The man laughed loudly; the cook buried her ebony face in her apron; the second girl bent double with mirth. Here was a quaint gentleman, indeed, and a great joker. But the gentleman was not joking.
"If you expect an easy berth, as first-mate, you are mistaken, my joker," said Jackson to Newton, as he steered the vessel; "you've skulked long enough, and shall now work double tides, or take the consequence. If you don't, I'll be damned!" "I shall do my duty, Mr Jackson," replied Newton, "and fear no consequences." "Indeed! you saw how I settled a skulk just now; beware of his fate!"
J. G. Whitmore had been going his way and refusing to grow old for a long time and then an accident, which is Time's joker, turned the game against him. He stood for just a second too long on a crowded crossing in Chicago, hesitating between going forward or back. And that second gave Time a chance to play an accident.
"That's right enough, sir; here's the oakum and tools. Been a fire. Here's the little pitch kettle." "O' course it's right, messmets. What's yer game press-gang?" "Hush!" whispered the commanding voice. "You're an old sailor?" "Nay, not old, your honour," said Tom. "Thirty-two, all but the legs I lost. They warn't so old by some years." "A joker, eh? Well, look here, my lad.
"I thought I'd never get to bed," he went on, coming to light his pipe at the candle and then returning to the bed he had taken Ned's sheets from. "First one joker in, then another, and the old man 'ud stay open all night for a tanner. Past two! Jolly nice hour for a chap that's to be up at six, ain't it?"
He made a furious pass at Jonas with his much-abused foot, which, if it had taken effect, would have demolished the joker in a twinkling. But Jonas stepped aside, caught the ponderous foot in his hand, and the next moment Hans was sprawling on his back.
The hounds and staff were waiting at the farther end of the long front of Castle Ire, when Larry and Christian made their somewhat sensational entrance upon the scene. "Joker wins, by a length and a half," said Bill Kirby, judicially, "and a very pretty race. I never saw a prettier, on any sands, on any jackasses, on any Bank Holiday!
"It was you, and the proof is that you have your tail cut off." "But all my cousins are without tails, like me." "You lie, joker." "Let me call them and you will see." "Call them." At his call the jackals ran up, all without tails. "Which of you is a shoemaker?" asked the lion. "All of us," they answered. He said to them: "I am going to bring you some red pepper.
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