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Fielden, rather petulantly. "There's the fair, my dear, more in your way, I see, than Sir William Temple's philosophy." And Helen was right; the fair was no Eastern bazaar, but how delighted that young, impressionable mind was, notwithstanding, delighted with the swings and the roundabouts, the shows, the booths, even down to the gilt gingerbread kings and queens!
The coat, which was single-breasted and velvet-collared, was extremely swallow-tailed, presenting a remarkable contrast to the barge-built, roomy roundabouts of the members of the Flat Hat Hunt; the collar rising behind, in the shape of a Gothic arch, exhibited all the stitchings and threadings incident to that department of the garment. But if Mr.
A man must go through the fire before he can write his masterpiece. We learn in suffering what we teach in song. What we lose on the swings we make up on the roundabouts.
She turned on 'Dolph, scolding, commanding him to be quiet; and 'Dolph subsided on his haunches and watched her, his stump tail jerking to and fro beneath him like an unweighted pendulum. There was a label attached to the straw bands. She turned it over and read: James Gavel, Proprietor, Imperial Steam Roundabouts, Henley-in-Arden.
There is, however, a quotation from a poem by Patrick A. Chalmers, a present-day poet, which has become as common as a proverb: "What's lost upon the roundabouts We pulls up on the swings." The fact that this is expressed simply and even ungrammatically does not, of course, turn it into a proverb.
Shows and caravans choked the narrow streets; huge roundabouts as "patronised by all the crowned heads of Europe," swung giddily round in the market-place, and the shouts of the stall-keepers, and the din of the orchestra, and the ceaseless crack of the rifle ranges, where boys were shooting for cocoa-nuts, made a noise that was almost deafening.
In the street of booths there are the roundabouts, the swings, the rifle galleries like shooting into the mouth of a great trumpet the shows, the cakes and brown nuts and gingerbread, the ale-barrels in a row, the rude forms and trestle tables; just the same, the very same, we saw at our first fair five-and-twenty years ago, and a hundred miles away.
"Well, you had the steam roundabouts on Bank Holiday, and you didn't like that," said Wilf cheerfully. "Some folks are never satisfied." "Look!" said Caroline. "There's that friend of Miss Laura Temple's." Wilf turned to watch a group coming through the barrier.
That morning he had even quitted the farm at seven o'clock, saying that he meant to surprise Blaise in bed; and thus he also was to be met at Janville. As it happened, the fete of Janville fell on Sunday, the second in May. Encompassing the square in front of the railway station were roundabouts, booths, shooting galleries, and refreshment stalls.
But in all such cases it is essential to be very clear as to what exactly you are doing; so that you may be at least moderately clear as to whether the policy is well advised. It may be sound enough to lose on the swings and make good this loss on the roundabouts, but only if your loss on the swings helps you to a larger profit on the roundabouts.
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