Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 21, 2025
Upon hearing this Johnny immediately started, and left Mr Kissing and the big book in possession of his desk. How the battle was waged, and how it raged in the large room, we cannot stop to hear, as it is necessary that we should follow our hero into the presence of Sir Raffle Buffle.
And next evening there was to be a great raffle of the mementoes we had bought, but Father would not let us go to that. August 14th. It is desperately dull. I don't know what on earth to do, so I am writing my diary. Besides, I have not written about the row yet. The next afternoon Aunt Alma came just as we were going out and said to Father: Ernst, please let me have a word with you.
About the same hour, in the billet, Willie was disposing of the cocoa-nut by raffle, tickets one penny each. 'A queer-like present to get frae yer aunt, said some one. 'Ay; but she's a queer-like aunt, said Willie, pocketing the useful sum of tenpence.
"Now, dear Walter, you were saying, I think, when we were discussing the raffle, that we cannot always be doing just what is right, and that Gregson and Saunders would make great fun of you if you were to refuse to put down your name because Amos thinks it wrong to raffle. Does not that young American's case show very plainly that we ought to aim at always doing right?
I recognised that it was necessary to keep myself constantly active, to counteract the effect of the chilly atmosphere, and this I did, bustling about, overhauling the raffle in the junk, and executing a good deal of utterly useless work, which I varied from time to time by taking long spells of watching, in the hope of sighting some craft to which I might signal for assistance.
That's exactly nine minutes to each; and as for lunch, we only have a biscuit dipped in ink." "Dipped in ink!" said the squire. "It comes to that, for you have to be writing while you munch it." "I hear all about you," said the earl; "Sir Raffle Buffle is an old crony of mine." "I don't suppose he ever heard my name as yet," said Johnny. "But do you really know him well, Lord De Guest?"
Sir Raffle Buffle was throned in his great oak arm-chair at the head of a long table in a very large room; and by him, at the corner of the table, was seated one of the assistant secretaries of the office. Another member of the Board was also at work upon the long table; but he was reading and signing papers at some distance from Sir Raffle, and paid no heed whatever to the scene.
To this hoisting tackle I could, if necessary, attach a second hoisting tackle. And then there was the windlass! Maud saw that I had achieved a solution, and her eyes warmed sympathetically. "What are you going to do?" she asked. "Clear that raffle," I answered, pointing to the tangled wreckage overside. Ah, the decisiveness, the very sound of the words, was good in my ears. "Clear that raffle!"
These are the class of gambling practices of which the church bazaar or raffle may be taken as the type.
Probably he had stated that matter of moment in this very document which Sir Raffle was holding in his hand. But Sir Raffle was not willing to be conquered by the document. If it was necessary that he should give way, he would much prefer to give way, out of his own good-nature, let us say, without looking at the document at all.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking