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"But, Hermy, I went after that office-boy's job you know I did!" "Yes, dear, though you got there too late." "No, I wasn't late, Hermy, only another guy happened t' get there first an' got the job! A kid I could have licked with one hand, too. One of these mommer's pets in a nobby sack suit all dolled up in a clean collar an' a bow-tie an' grey kid gloves.
And that" he plucked a fragment from his hair "that is the bally twins playin' ''Unt the slipper." Even the cook was stirred out of his usual air of superiority by this assertion, and contemplated the speaker with interest. "You don't say." He inspected the phenomenon more closely. "I thought as 'ow it was mud." "It is." Nobby was even more morose.
Nobby and Bones are the strongest, Victor and Christopher the weakest, but all should get through. The land doesn't show up yet. Wednesday, November 29. Camp 25. Lat. 82° 21'. Things much better. The land showed up late yesterday; Mount Markham, a magnificent triple peak, appearing wonderfully close, Cape Lyttelton and Cape Goldie.
"Tea rooms," operated by American old maids, have poked their noses into these once genuine boulevards ... and, as if giving a further fillip to the scenery, clothing shops with windows haughtily revealing the nobby art of Kuppenheimer, postcard shops laden to the sill's edge with lithographs disclosing erstwhile Saturday Evening Post cover heroines, and case upon case displaying in lordly enthusiasm the choicest cranial confections of the house of Stetson....
Get half a walnut shell; cut a notch at one end where the neck will be; fill the shell with putty; stick in wooden pegs for legs, tail, and head. The central stalk of a tulip-tree fruit makes a wonderful sculptured tail; the unopened buds of dogwood do for legs, also cloves have been used. Any nobby stick serves for head if you make eyes and teeth on it.
But they all get off of Number Eleven under our keen, discriminating glare, and they all get the same greeting while we size them up and wonder if their nobby thirty-five dollar suits are their sole stocks-in-trade, and just how much a "lucrative position" means in Chicago. When the big strike was on, twenty-five years ago, Number Eleven didn't run for two days.
And yet he served me more faithfully than I have ever been served before or since, and I have seldom been more sorry than I was when "Nobby" Clarke was hit. As we were tying him up he had been wounded in eight places by a rifle grenade he signed to me and I stooped over him. "I ain't got no one at 'ome as cares fer me," he said, "so yer might 'and me things round to the blokes 'ere.
There was "Nobby" Clarke, for instance. "Nobby" was a weedy little Cockney who became my "batman," or servant. He had complete control of my privy purse, did all my shopping, and haggled over my every halfpenny as carefully as though it were his own.
A second interview was sufficient to win the most intractable. Not that I cared to win: I was fatigued with victory my laurels oppressed me. I began to wish, like that nobby old emperor, Au I used to know his name that all womankind had but one heart, that I might finish it with a look, and then turn my attention to more important matters. Once I thought I had found her.
"You look nobby," said Jim. "Where's your brush?" "I've give up the blackin' business," said Micky. "You have? What are you going to do? Sell papers?" "No," said Micky, consequentially. "I'm in business on Pearl Street." "Why," said Limpy Jim, surprised, "that's where that upstart Ragged Dick works." "He aint an upstart, an' he aint ragged," said Micky.
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