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Updated: June 22, 2025
If a play has a gloomy ending it is promptly denounced as painful by the people who welcome an entertainment consisting of biograph pictures representing some awful catastrophe, and by persons who revel in a good series of animated photographs of somebody being guillotined, or tortured in a Russian gaol, and do not care to waste their tears over the sorrows of people in a play, though perhaps a really roaring farce would entertain them, if it included a good deal of knockabout business.
Tip said it was highly important that the Pollard boats should break down while under the eyes of all Annapolis, so that it would seem that they could not be depended upon.” Truax here became so ill that his audience had to wait until he could proceed. Then Jack asked: “What sort of looking fellow is Gaynor?” “He was the black-bearded man who shanghaied you in the white knockabout.
Their musical performance was not without merit, but their comic "business" seemed to have been invented long ago by some man who had patented a monopoly of all music-hall humour and forthwith retired from the trade. Some day, Yeovil reflected, the rights of the monopoly might expire and new "business" become available for the knockabout profession.
He uses for his purpose a tall and self-willed horse of the Tudor period a horse with those high dormer effects and a sloping mansard. This horse must have been raised, I think, in the knockabout song-and-dance business. Every time he hears music or thinks he hears it he stops and vamps with his feet. When he does this my friend bends forward and clutches him round the neck tightly.
There had been something like vaudeville say Signor Givens and his funny knockabout act with the stuffed lion. "Is that you, Mr. Givens?" said Josefa, in her deliberate, saccharine contralto. "You nearly spoilt my shot when you yelled. Did you hurt your head when you fell?" "Oh, no," said Givens, quietly; "that didn't hurt."
"They're mighty close to it, if they've shanghaied Mr. Benson and Mr. Hastings and put to sea with 'em," rejoined Eph. Then he rang for more speed. Down below, Williamson almost instantly responded. The "Farnum" now fairly leaped through the water. "Turn the light on the knockabout, now, and keep it there," directed the submarine boy. There was a seven-knot breeze blowing.
Within sixty seconds the propellers of the "Farnum" were doing a ten-knot stunt, which was soon increased to fourteen. One of the seamen now stood, by to swing the searchlight under Eph's orders. By the time that the submarine reached the mouth of the bay the light faintly picked up a spread of white sail, off to the East. "That's the knockabout," cried Eph, excitedly.
You'd much better be deciding what you are going to do with Bob for the rest of the day." "I thought I'd take him out in the knockabout," Roger suggested. "That is, if he would like to go. The tide will be just right and there is a fine breeze." "You may take him if you will get him home at tea time," Mrs. Galbraith said.
Men leave the school, and find that they've got so accustomed to jumping out of window that they look on it as a sort of affectation to go out by the door. I suppose none of you merchants can give me any idea when the next knockabout entertainment of this kind is likely to take place?" "I wonder who rang that bell!" said Stone. "Jolly sporting idea." "I believe it was Downing himself.
He glanced up at a time-table stuck in the mirror, hurriedly changed his knockabout suit for his best one, and then rushed down to the dining room where Mrs. Pell was helping Eva shell peas for dinner. He went straight up to her and put his arm affectionately about her neck. "Moms," he said in his winning way, "I want to run up to the city for this afternoon. I'm a quarter short to buy my ticket.
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