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Why, I had lots of fun, girls. I couldn't think of any shipwrecked hero who was ever stuck in the mud, so I played the mud was a desert, and that I was Marco What's-his-name in his shrouded tent, and " "It was the Turk, who was at midnight in his shrouded tent," interrupted Eunice, again. "Was it? Well, I played it, anyway.
And even beyond that, she was not likely to be attracted by such a rude, ungainly, sunburned lout as he, with such chaps about as Vos Engo, or that what's-his-name fellow, or a dozen others whom he had seen. Confound it all, she was meant for a prince, or an archduke. What chance had he? But she was the loveliest creature he had ever seen. Yes; she was the golden girl of his dreams.
He's one of the ornaments of Bloomsbury, and has a collection of some kind birds' eggs or something that's supposed to be curious. I bet it's nothing to my clients!" "What a lark it would be to play billy with the labels!" chuckled Mr. Wickham. "By George, here's a tack-hammer! We might send all these things skipping about the premises like what's-his-name!"
The sluice, instead of bedding at the natural channel of the river, had been built a good six feet above that level; so that, even with the gates wide open, a "head" of six feet was retained in the slack water of the pond. "No wonder we couldn't get a draw," said Orde. "Let's hunt up old What's-his-name and have a pow-wow." "His name is plain Reed," explained North. "There he comes now."
"Some of us have so much more fun out of things than other people do. There's us; and then there's Bridget and that little pet of Polly's, Dicky what's-his-name. You know the one I mean. And then, just in our set, there's ever so much difference.
Peerybingle then went running to the door, where, what with the wheels of a cart, the tramp of a horse, the voice of a man, the tearing in and out of an excited dog, and the surprising and mysterious appearance of a baby, there was soon the very What's-his-name to play. Where the baby came from, or how Mrs. Peerybingle got hold of it in that flash of time, I don't know.
Hearing this scene read over, it occurred to the genial youth himself that he would like to play the part. 'Billy, old man, said he, 'I think Sir What's-his-name there's about my style of man. Before you put that immortal work upon the public stage you'd better try an amateur performance carefully rehearsed. You play George Rondel. I'll play Sir What's-his-name.
Those newspaper beggars think very highly of him the critics, y'know, and all that; why, 'pon my soul, I was reading something about him only this morning at the club in the what's-his-name the Outcry. Said he ought to be in the Academy." "Yes," said Mrs. Sylvester sympathetically, "you are quite right to be proud of him, Colonel Lightmark.
And I read the story of the Shoemaker and the little Elves who came and did his work for him before he got up; and I thought it would be so jolly if we had some little Elves to do things instead of us." "That's what Tommy Trout said," observed the Doctor. "Who's Tommy Trout?" asked Deordie. "Don't you know, Deor?" said Tiny. "It's the good boy who pulled the cat out of the what's-his-name.
'Upon my word, cried Martin, laughing, 'since you do me the honour to consider me his representative, I have only to say that I never heard of Queen Victoria reading the What's-his-name Gazette and that I should scarcely think it probable. General Choke smiled upon the rest, and said, in patient and benignant explanation: 'It is sent to her, sir. It is sent to her. Her mail.
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