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The act hasn't any time yet, but it will get time as soon as it makes good, and to make good all its needs is a trial performance, and the backer thinks he knows where he can get a trial performance, and to get ready for the trial performance will require about five weeks' rehearsal at nix per week. Do you think a stunt like that is worthy of my attention?
But your business men in New York give the show away. There's a little printed card now in half the offices in New York that tells of the real pacificism of America. They're busy, you know. Trade's real good. And so as not to interrupt it they stick up this card: 'Nix on the war! Think of it!
"This Boolzac guy didn't have no baggage, and yuh give 'im the key without little ol' three-per in advance." "No grip?" "Nix. Not a toot'brush in sight." "Well, the damage is done. I might as well go to sleep." It was not premeditated on the part of the clerk to give the squat man the room adjoining that of Hawksley's. The key had been nearest his hand.
You must come up when we go there next summer." "Will mamma be there?" he asked. "And papa," she laughed. "And I suppose Cousin Annie." "No, brother George will be." "Nix for the bungalow," he replied, using a slang word that had become immensely popular. "Oh, but I know all the country round there. There are some lovely walks and drives."
'Nix on the war! Here is the whole fate of mankind at stake, and America's contribution is a little grumbling when the Germans sank the Lusitania, and no end of grumbling when we hold up a ship or two and some fool of a harbour-master makes an overcharge. Otherwise 'Nix on the war!... "Well, let it be Nix on the war! Don't come here and talk to me!
"We'll be back in a little while," Aunt Miranda explained; "just make yourselves at home, children." Uncle Gilbert continued to eye the car for another minute, then he turned to me and said, "Want to try it, John?" "Nix, Uncle Gilbert," I protested; "what would the townspeople say? You with a new motor car, afraid to run it yourself, had to send to New York for your nephew nix!
The guard told them we were Canadians, but the civilians said, "Oh nix! the Canadians are 'Swas'" meaning black. They argued with the guard for fifteen minutes and then were not convinced. Finally the cage came, we were loaded in, and it started down. I shall never forget the feeling I had; I thought that we would never strike bottom.
Even as faith without works is dead, being alone, so professions of affection without exemplification would be simply worth "Jocko," and that worthless creature, according to the mariner, was good for "nix." No; the captain had presented his darling with diamonds a cross, for example, which cost $1,000, and a watch and chain and other jewelry, amounting in the whole to $2,800.
Off to the north-west a cloud of dust rose heavenward, and he rightly conjectured that it hid from view the chieftain, Sitting Bull, and his warriors. His thoughts reverting to his companion, "General" Nix, and the train of Charity Joe, he glanced toward where he had last seen them. Neither were to be seen, now.
"I was going to see that opera last Saturday night if that lowlife Walsh wouldn't have took me to the prize-fight." He paused and helped himself to a fresh cigar from the "gilt-edged" box. "For anybody else but a loafer," he concluded, "prize-fighting is nix. Opera, Mr. Perlmutter, that's an amusement for a gentleman." Morris nodded a vigorous acquiescence.
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