The fortunes of the players vary, and there are occasionalvery occasionalopen rumpuses; but the players and the stakes remain the same.

The fortunes of the players vary, and there are occasionalvery occasionalopen rumpuses; but the players and the stakes remain the same.

Then Colonel Claus rose, thumping violently on the table, and, "Here's a pretty rumpus!"

In fact, the whale, when in articulo mortis, makes a more tremendous rumpus about its latter end than any other animal either of the sea or land.