Sheeney

Whereupon he appealed to The Sheeney to stop this.

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Some time after the soup, about eight o'clock, the Fighting Sheeney and

The Enormous Room 1928

Bill the Hollander, whom we had grown to like, whereas at first we were inclined to fear him, Bill the Hollander who washed some towels and handkerchiefs and what-nots for us and turned them a bright pink, Bill the Hollander who had tried so hard to teach The Young Pole the lesson which he could only learn from The Fighting Sheeney, left us about a week after _la commission_.

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The Fighting Sheeney spent at La Ferté Macé, the non-existence of the inhabitants of The Enormous Room was rendered something more than miserable.

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Once more The Fighting Sheeney made for them, only to find sleeping innocents.

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The Fighting Sheeney temporarily took him down a peg by flooring him in the nightly "_Boxe_" which The Fighting Sheeney instituted immediately upon the arrival of The

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Pole, perhaps sore at being rolled on the floor of The Enormous Room by the worthy Sheeney, set about nagging him just as he had done in the case of neighbour Bill.

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The Sheeney was swinging like a windmill and hammering like a blacksmith.

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Enormous Room, in which corner The Fighting Sheeney was haranguing a group of spectators on the pregnant topic: What I won't do to Précigne when I get there.

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I scarcely know whether The Fighting Sheeney made more of a nuisance of himself during his decumbiture or during the period which followed it -- which period houses an astonishing number of fights, rows, bullyings, etc.

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