Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 23, 2025
Finish your breakfast and come out here. I want to talk to you." "Well," answered Groundhog, wiping his mouth, "I'm through. The feller that runs this shebang ain't made nothin' offen me, I kin tell you. It's the first square meal I've had for a week, and I've et until there ain't a crack left inside o' me that a skeeter could git his bill in. I laid out to git the wuth o' my money, and I done it.
Had he chosen, in American phrase, he could have 'shut up the shebang in mighty sudden time. The elder was tall; the elder was strong; the elder was grim; the elder was a man who could rule hundreds of the roughest labourers; the elder was a man who would have his say, and said it like throwing down a hod full of bricks.
Colonel Woods beams in upon the clerks of Judge Hardin. That magnate is absent. The senatorial contest is presaged by much wire-pulling. "I don't see the young man who used to run this shebang," carelessly remarks the Croesus. "Mr. Jaggers is not here any longer," smartly replies his pert successor, to whom the fall of Jaggers was a veritable bonanza. "What's the matter with him?" says Woods.
'Do I pay a girl the wages of a princess to run a temperance meeting among my customers? she cried. 'Go away, Mother Kyley, an' work yer own ould shebang, replied Aurora, 'or else bring me fiddle wid ye, an' give us a step on the turf! 'Not a step will I. 'Then I'll lave divil a man in the shanty, dthrunk or dthry!
No wonder the report that "an aunt-in-law ob de yo'ng mistress yonder at Severndale, had done come down an' ondertuck fer ter run de hull shebang an' Miss Peggy inter de bargain, what is never been run by nobody," had circulated throughout the whole community, and met with a resolute, though carefully concealed opposition subtle, intangible, but sure to prove overwhelming in the end the undertow, so hidden but so irresistible.
You not come down more to my saloon?" "No, I wouldn't come to your saloon, and I wouldn't go to Theophile Charlemagne's shebang at the Cote Dorion." "You not like Charlemagne's hotel?" said a huge black-bearded pilot, standing beside the landlord. "Oh, I like Charlemagne's hotel, and I like to talk to Suzon Charlemagne, but I'm not married, Rouge Gosselin "
"Darned if I did n't hustle that outfit from pit to boxes, but nobody there seemed to sabe this yere Brown. Mercedes, she was there all right, 'bout ten minutes ago, but just naturally faded away before I hit the shebang. Doorkeeper piped it she had a guy with her when she broke loose, an' he reckoned she must have lit out fer home." "For home?" a faint ray of light breaking from the word.
It's not my fault you look like twenty, is it? I told that lady hat drummer that I was going to give the hat to somebody that was a darned sight better looking than she was, and she said 'How old is the lady? and I told her I wasn't discussing a horse and that the age was none of her business, but that if she'd think of someone who looked twenty, and get me a hat that would be the best in the shebang in the twenty-year-old class, and tell me the price and "
And we'll take care of you, pard. We'll fix you all right. There'll be a kerridge for you; and whatever you want, you just 'scape out and we'll 'tend to it. We've got a shebang fixed up for you to stand behind, in No. 1's house, and don't you be afraid. Just go in and toot your horn, if you don't sell a clam.
She'll have to spend thousands on it to make it fit to live in. She says she'll pay cash, too." "Well, I suppose you'll know cash when you see it. I've got to go." "But cash! Lord A'mighty! We dunno what to do." "I suppose you know whether you want to sell or not." "Want to sell! If we didn't want to sell this old shebang we'd be dumb idiots."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking