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Miller said, was to get all his friends together for one big shindig before he and his family returned to Spindrift Island where a new project was waiting. Even Jan and Barby knew no other reason than this. Meanwhile, the boys were busy preparing to "bury the ghost for good."
"Their missionaries all go armed, of course; but that's their privilege by treaty. They've been browsing around and going hither and yon in skiffs. The ship's been in orbit till this morning." "Think they're here in connection with whatever Balmordan is up to?" Trigger inquired. "We'll take that for granted. Balmordan, by the way, attended a big shindig on the Pluly yacht yesterday.
He has spent five dollars paying the negroes to polish up their instruments and clean up the uniforms and it cost him twenty-five to bail the cornettist out of jail for roost robbing, and it takes a whole gallon of whisky to get any spirit into the drummer. He says tell you that as this is your shindig you ought at least to pay the piper.
She was of the opinion that under such circumstances she would be actually pretty. "Fine morning for your shindig," remarked Joe, who had long before lost all traces of bashfulness in Peggy's presence. "Don't you get them horses to speeding, now, so's you'll be arrested for fast driving."
The time I'm with the Utes they pulls off a shindig, "tea dance" it is, an', as what Huggins would call "a star feacher" they ups an' roasts a white dog. That canine is mighty plethoric an' fat, an' they lays him on his broad, he'pless back an' shets off his wind with a stick cross-wise of his neck, an' two bucks pressin' on the ends.
"I'm going down," he said grimly, "if I have to go alone." Brennan scrambled to his feet. "Just a second, Jim, an' I'm with yer. Moore, get up yere. Now, what do yer say? Can we count you in on this shindig?" "Go down thar with yer?" "Sure! Y're a man, ain't yer? If yer say y're game, I'll play square otherwise we'll see to your case afore we start.
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