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Updated: May 5, 2025
A crazy whatnot, imitation lacquer and bamboo, the only piece of decorative furniture, was stacked with photographs of variety artists, male and female, in all kinds of stage costumes, with sprawling signatures across, the collection of years of touring, all scrupulously dusted and accurately set out. On the chenille-covered table in the middle of the room stood a vase with artificial flowers.
She had filled her secluded old parlors with the squeak and the blare of music; alien draperies in their swift gyrations had whisked her immemorial ornaments from her immemorial old "whatnot"; in the dining-room a squad of custard-colored waiters had opposed a firm front to the hungry hordes that assaulted the various viands on the table; and a thousand teasing points of form and usage had afflicted her with worry, uncertainty, and possible mortification and despair.
Her casual but proud-minded family wiped her off the proud family slate. She brought Phyllis into the world and five years afterwards found herself be-Gedged out of existence. They were struggling people in those days, and before her death my wife used to employ her, when she could, for household sewing and whatnot. And tiny Phyllis, in a childless home, became a petted darling.
The young lady was of an artistic bent, and the stiff ornaments in the shut-up parlor and the wonderful oil-paintings jarred upon her. Strange to say, even the wax-dipped wreath that hung in its circular black frame over the whatnot did not appeal to her.
"There's a parrot in a cage over at the Duck, there, as is eighty-five years old, and that's proved by record kept, young sir." "No!" protested Edwin's incredulity politely. "By record kept," said Big James. "Do you often sing at the Dragon, Mr Yarlett?" "Time was," said Big James, "when some of us used to sing there every night, Sundays excepted, and concerts and whatnot excepted. Aye!
"It is a name that I have been known to answer to," replied the owner of the Whatnot; "and after my performance of last evening I don't suppose I shall ever be allowed to claim any other." "If you had only told me all your names in the first place," said Winn, with a sly twinkle in his eyes, "I should probably have done the same.
One of the Captain's last bits of work in Dubuque was to build a skiff for Sheriff Riley, and with the money thus earned to defray immediate expenses, the Whatnot started on her voyage down the river at sunrise of the very morning on which Winn Caspar unconsciously drifted past Dubuque in that very skiff.
"I hope nothing, but I wish to leave no stone unturned. Tell me of him." "Of his Excellency, Giovacchino Gallo, senator, Grand Cross, and whatnot? There is much to tell, though there is nothing which could not be also told of many another gentleman in high place. It is the usual story: the supple spine, the sharp eye, the greased foot. He was a young lawyer, useful to deputies.
Tracey Tanner became his delivery-boy, deserting his father's stables for the obvious advantages of three dollars a week with a chance to learn the business.... Sothern and Lee were quick to recognise the advantage the telephone gave Graham and Duncan, and promptly had one put in their store; but the delay had proven almost fatal: Radville had already got into the habit of telephoning to Graham's for a cake of soap, or whatnot, and it's hard to break a Radville habit.
"The Whatnot, of Dubuque," was the answer. "Do you know the Sheriff of Dubuque County?" "Who Riley? Yes, I know him." "Do you know his skiff?" "As well as I know my own boat, for I built it." "Have you seen it pass down the river to-day, containing only a boy between sixteen and seventeen years old?" "No. Haven't seen it or any other skiff. What's the matter? Has it been stolen?"
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