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Updated: May 1, 2025
Now, there is not much fun in coaling, even when a craft as funny as the Pinta is snuggling up under your quarter, looking more like the Pinafore than ever, with her skylarking sailors, midshipmite and all; so Captain Carroll secured a jaunty little steam-launch, and away we went on a picnic in the forest primeval.
"Well, you see," continued Lionel, as he opened the glass door to let his companions re-enter the hotel, "an outsider who comes skylarking after an actress, and finds her surrounded by her professional friends and her professional interests, has to undergo a good deal of tribulation. That poor fellow has come down here to dine all by himself, merely to be near her.
On Saturdays the young men go out in their boats, and sometimes the water is fairly covered with the little sails. A boat upsets now and then, by accident, a result of tumultuous skylarking; sometimes the boys upset their boat for fun such as it is with sharks visibly waiting around for just such an occurrence. The young fellows scramble aboard whole sometimes not always.
There was a craze of skylarking the first few weeks after the school opened. Almost every day one of the Lakerimmers would come back from his classes to find his room "stacked" a word that exactly expresses its meaning.
No more skylarking except here, so mind your ways, and do honour to your buttons, said Mrs Jo, tapping one of the very bright brass ones that ornamented the new suit Emil was so proud of. 'I'll do my best. I had a long talk with Uncle last night and got my orders; I won't forget 'em nor all I owe him.
I looked through the spy-hole at the tiny picture three dirty beehives for the kraal, a long breastwork of newly thrown up earth, six or seven miniature men gathered into a little bunch, two others skylarking on the grass behind the trench, apparently engaged in a boxing match. Then I turned to the guns. A naval officer craned along the seventeen-feet barrel, peering through the telescopic sights.
It seemed, however, that they were to be allowed no time for skylarking. Frank, however, obeyed with alacrity. "Ay, ay, sir!" he exclaimed, with a sailor-like hitch at his trousers; "come, Harry, my hearty, tumble aft, we might as well begin to take orders now as any other time."
Most of us, I reckon, had a feeling the Hen was going to let things out in some queer way she'd thought of in that funny head of hers same as she'd done other times when matters was getting serious and we all was ready to help her with any skylarking she was up to that would put a stop to the rumpus and so get Wood out of his hole.
Dennis had put in a big fire for the hill, and then gone skylarking around the station, and I was in the dark glaring at Dandy Tamplin in the light. "The blow-off cock on this engine was on the right side and opened from the cab.
I translated that the holy father had been "skylarking" in a boat, and in gay society had forgotten his vows of frugality and abstinence and general mortification of the flesh, and had become, not very drunk, but drunk enough to be dangerous, when he came ashore and took a horse in his hands, and so upset his carriage, and gashed his temporal artery, and came to grief, which is such a casualty as does not happen every day, and I don't blame people for making the most of it.
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