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Updated: May 12, 2025
You think you're going to make a lot of money out of some job you've got, but it shaves itself down to half by the time it reaches you; or you've got to cough up double what you counted on when it's the other way about; so it works out the same always; you get soaked whether you buy or sell, from the cradle to the grave you're always catching shiners!" While Mr.
The fish that they caught they called "shiners." As an edible product "shiners" were of little account. But the Judge and Mr. Flippin did not fish for food, they fished for sport.
There were not many fish in that part of the Miami; my boy's experience was full of the ignominy of catching shiners and suckers, or, at the best, mudcats, as they called the yellow catfish; but there were boys, of those who cursed and swore, who caught sunfish, as they called the bream; and there were men who were reputed to catch at will, as it were, silvercats and river-bass.
"'Tell you what it is General; you'll have to be mighty careful, or that Cuba flounder will swallow all the shiners in Uncle Sam's brass box without yielding anything in exchange, I insinuated. "'Not a bit on't! says Uncle Jeff, going off into a state of excitement: 'Just lend me the carver; I'll put him through; and seizing the knife from Mr.
There had long been bad blood betwixt him and the sheriff, and this time the man of the law gave the lie, and but for prompt work of bystanders deputy Shiners and sheriffs both there would have been cause for a coroner's inquest on the spot. Before that day it had been avowed hostility between them; now it was war to the knife.
Keep good faith with me, and you shall have your revenge, and the shiners I promise, besides my lord's interest for a better master: but, sharp! we won't mount till we're out of sight o' the hell-scum you horde with. The Thier stood up and staggered after them through the camp.
Jack's alive and merry, boys, When he's got the shiners; Heh! for rattle, fun, and noise, Hang all grumbling whiners. Then drink, and call for what you please Until you've had your whack, boys; We think no more of raging seas, Now that we've come back, boys. Chorus.
Professor Bumpus is seated in front of a row of women, horn-combers and gold-beaders, or somewhere about that range of life, looking so credulous, that, if any Second-Advent Miller or Joe Smith should come along, he could string the whole lot of them on his cheapest lie, as a boy strings a dozen "shiners" on a stripped twig of willow. Tape round the head, 22 inches.
SUTLER-WOMAN. The same in sooth and you I know, Are the lanky Peter of Itzeho: Who at Glueckstadt once, in revelling night, With the wags of our regiment, put to flight All his father's shiners then crowned the fun FIRST YAGER. By changing his pen for a rifle-gun. SUTLER-WOMAN. We're old acquaintance, then, 'tis clear. FIRST YAGER. And to think we should meet in Bohemia here!
They're inexhaustible something like the mint, young gentlemen, where the King has his guineas struck which he pays to us seamen for fighting for him. We should be in a bad way if his shiners were to come to an end; and one thing I may promise you, as long as I've got a brain to think and a tongue to wag, I shall be able to continue my wonderful and veracious history."
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