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Updated: May 16, 2025
Then, without any more preliminaries, she turned on all the horrors of the "Battle of Prague," that venerable shivaree, and waded chin-deep in the blood of the slain. She made a fair and honorable average of two false notes in every five, but her soul was in arms and she never stopped to correct.
And you better git a move on it comes off to-morrer night, remember." "I won't go, Manley!" Val consoled herself by declaring, again and again. "The idea of Arline Hawley ordering me about like a child! Why should I go if I don't care to go?" "Search me." Manley shrugged his shoulders. "It isn't so long, though, since you were just as determined to stay and have the shivaree, you remember."
"What is it you call this thing where an old man marries a young girl, and you come out with horns and" "Charivari?" asked the Creoles. "Yes, that's it. Why don't you shivaree him?" Felicitous suggestion. Little White, with his wife beside him, was sitting on their doorsteps on the sidewalk, as Creole custom had taught them, looking toward the sunset. They had moved into the lately-opened street.
"But, gentlemen," said little White, around whom a circle had gathered, "the old man is very sick." "My faith!" cried a tiny Creole, "we did not make him to be sick. W'en we have say we going make le charivari, do you want that we hall tell a lie? My faith! 'sfools!" "But you can shivaree somebody else," said desperate little White. "Oui" cried Bienvenu, "et chahivahi Jean-ah Poquelin tomo'w!"
I hope you shivaree Man and his wife and shivaree 'em good. I hope you bust the town wide open." "Why this sudden change of heart?" came muffled from within. "Ah that's my own business. Well, I don't like you a little bit, and you know it; but I'll tell you, just to give you a fair show.
The awful crash was imminent why didn't that villain come! If I committed the crime of ringing a bell, I might get thrown overboard. But better that than kill the boat. So in blind desperation I started such a rattling 'shivaree' down below as never had astounded an engineer in this world before, I fancy.
They slackened their pace, two or three hushed their horns and joined the prayer of little White and Bienvenu for silence. The throng halted. The hush was delicious. "Bienvenu," said little White, "don't shivaree old Poquelin to-night; he's" "My fwang," said the swaying Bienvenu, "who tail you I goin' to chahivahi somebody, eh?
They're some bunch and they stick for one another like hornets, and all hold together in a fight. So I don't want any man to ride in there with me thinking he's going to a wedding. He isn't. He may or may not be going to a funeral, but he's not going to a shivaree." Frank Elpaso glanced sourly at his companions. "I guess everybody here is wise, John."
'They'se another hero down in Halstead Sthreet that's been marrid. Go down an' shivaree him. An' you, me thrusted collagues iv th' press, disperse to ye'er homes, I'd say. 'Th' keyholes is closed f'r th' night, I'd say. An' thin I'd bolt th' dure an' I'd say, 'George, take off ye'er coat an' pull up to th' fire. Here's a noggin' iv whisky near ye'er thumb an' a good seegar f'r ye to smoke.
Suppose I go and see." "Do," said his wife. She sat alone for half an hour, watching that sudden going out of the day peculiar to the latitude. "That moon is ghost enough for one house," she said, as her husband returned. "It has gone right down the chimney." "Patty," said little White, "the drug-clerk says the boys are going to shivaree old Poquelin to-night. I'm going to try to stop it."
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