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Everybody's making a fuss about a thing that'll be forgotten in a week's time. Why didn't you, he continued, turning sternly upon Polson, 'why didn't you tell me about this? 'A man can't make a shindy about it every time he has a turn-up with a tramp, Polson answered. 'I didn't think it worth while to talk about it.
"Haven't you heard?" he answered. "Some one's in for a thundering row, I can tell you." "Why, what do you mean?" "Why, Mullins says that some man from the fair came this morning, and wanted to see the headmaster. He says one of our fellows was up there last night, kicking up a fine shindy, and set his show on fire; and he means to find out who it is, and summon him for damages.
See! there's your nag kicking up a shindy, he said to Caingey Thornton, as the redoubtable brown was led down the street by a jean-jacketed groom, kicking and lashing out at everything he came near. 'I'll kick him, observed Thornton, retiring from the balcony to the brandy-bottle, and helping himself to a pretty good-sized glass.
'A bit of a shindy with the swaddies in Warrenheip Gully, and an attack on the troopers at the Gravel Pits. Nothing really serious. The Imperial troops were drawn up under arms at our big meeting on Bakery Hill on the 29th. The flag has been floated, the men have taken the oath under it, and are now drilling within the stockade on Eureka. 'We are none too soon. 'Not a moment.
"Yes, sor, you're wanted at Mother Borton's in a hurry," said another voice, and a man stepped forward. "There's the divil to pay!" I recognized the one-eyed man who had done me the service that enabled me to escape from Livermore. "Ah, Broderick, what's the matter?" "I didn't get no orders, sor, so I don't know, but there was the divil's own shindy in the height of progression when I left.
They found Armine coiled up before the fire with a book, and Jock greeted him with "Well, you little donkey, there's such a shindy at the Croft as you never heard." "Mother, you know!" cried Armine, running into her outstretched arms and being covered with her kisses. "But who told?" he asked. "John and Jessie," said Jock.
In a word, never was there heard at Hall Place not even when the fox was killed in the conservatory, among acres of broken glass, and tons of smashed flowerpots such a noise, row, hubbub, babel, shindy, hullabaloo, and total contempt of dignity, repose, and order, as that day, when Grimes, the gardener, the groom, the dairymaid, Sir John, the steward, the ploughman, and the Irishwoman, all ran up the park, shouting "Stop thief," in the belief that Tom had at least a thousand pounds' worth of jewels in his empty pockets; and the very magpies and jays followed Tom up, screaking and screaming, as though he were a hunted fox, beginning to droop his brush.
When he reached Bartlett & Bangs' on the outskirts of the city, the big manufacturing plant was ominously still. The only sign of life about the place was at the wide entrance doors at the end of the yards, where a group of men were talking and gesticulating excitedly. "What's the shindy?" Quin asked a bystander. "Union men trying to keep scabs from going to work," answered his informant.
But he will stop short of his neighbour's dust-patch; for the morning is really too hot for a shindy. Shall he sit on a gate and smoke? or lie on the grass and smoke? or smoke aimlessly and at large along the road? Such a choice of happiness is distracting; but perhaps the last course is the best as needing the least mental effort of selection.
They accompanied their exertions with a running fire of chat and chaff, which left Riddell very little to do except gently to steer the conversation round towards the point for which this merry meeting was designed. "Frightful job to get old Parson to turn up," said Telson, taking his fourth go-in of potted meat; "he thought you were going to row him about that shindy in the Parliament!"
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