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Updated: June 4, 2025
Here was I fighting nobly for my king and country, when a Frenchman's shot spoilt both my legs, and I was left to stump off as best I could on these here timber toes without a shiner in my pocket, robbed of all my hard-earned prize-money.
And the obvious reason is that nobody seems to take the trouble to get what might be proper bait for sailfish. Mullet is an easy bait to get and commands just as high a price as anything else, which, as a matter of fact, is highway robbery. With a bait like a ballyhoo or a shiner I could get ten bites to one with mullet. We trolled along at slow speed.
'If you don't, said Anthea, 'I shall fetch the police. 'You better! said he who was named Urb. 'Say, Ike, you twist the bloomin' pigeon's neck; he ain't worth tuppence. 'Oh, no, cried Jane, 'don't hurt it. Oh, don't; it is such a pet. 'I won't hurt it, said Ike; 'I'm 'shamed of you, Urb, for to think of such a thing. Arf a shiner, miss, and the bird is yours for life.
She had let him put his hand upon hers; she had allowed her gaze to drop plumb into the depths of his his into hers three or four times; her manner had been very free with regard to the basin and towel; she had appeared vexed at the mention of Shiner. On the other hand, she had driven him about the house like a quiet dog or cat, said Shiner cared for her, and seemed anxious that Mr.
But the blood of the Graemes was up, and the younger soldier was not to be outdone by the old. The guards at the office burst into a cheer as the two came staggering up to the level, with poor Shiner groaning between them, and then quick work and hot was needed, for the mob came fierce on their trail.
Hither also go the school-boy fishermen, with a willow pole and one gallus apiece, seeking to entice the patriarchal chub, the shiner and the stone-roller. From this point down, the young anglers are strung along the banks. Some try their luck for sunfish by the piles of loose rock and boulders, and some would tempt the bullheads from siestas in the mud.
Although it was not eight o'clock, the audience suddenly came to the conclusion that it was time for the performance to begin, and they announced that fact by piercing whistles, furious stamping of the feet, and such gentle admonitions to the managers as, "Hurry up, Mopsey," "Give it to us now, Shiner," as well as other phrases betokening extreme familiarity.
"It is nothing, but O-o! a bee has stung the inside of my lip! He was in one of the cells I was eating!" "We must keep down the swelling, or it may be serious!" said Shiner, stepping up and kneeling beside her. "Let me see it." "No, no!" "Just let me see it," said Dick, kneeling on the other side: and after some hesitation she pressed down her lip with one finger to show the place.
He turned to Jimmy and growled: "Say, lissen, young feller, in the last wire you sent, you misspelt a name. How many times have I got to tell you " He stopped. For the first time that morning did he get a good look at Jimmy's swollen, purple eye. He whistled. His face wrinkled in what passed with him for a smile. He murmured in reverent awe: "What a shiner, what a peach. Where did you get "
"Pa'son Mayble and I were as good friends all through it as if we'd been sworn brothers. Ay, the man's well enough; 'tis what's put in his head that spoils him, and that's why we've got to go." "There's really no believing half you hear about people nowadays." "Bless ye, my sonnies! 'tisn't the pa'son's move at all. "What! Shiner?" "Ay; and I see what the pa'son don't see.
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