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To Robinson's repeated and uneasy inquiries what meant this pantomime, Jem persisted in returning no answer but this: "You want your dinner, captain; eat your dinner, and then I'll hoffer a hobservation; meantime, as these woods are queer places, a little hextra caution is no sin."
"We have not much variety," observed Dumsby to Ruby, in an apologetic tone. "Variety!" exclaimed Forsyth, "what d'ye call that?" pointing to the fish. "Well, that is a hextra morsel, I admit," returned Joe; "but we don't get that every day; 'owsever, wot there is is good, an' there's plenty of it, so let's fall to."
"If they was a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door, but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited." "Do you remember going up to Mrs. Bardell's house one night last November? I suppose you went to have a little talk about this trial, eh, Mr.
You won't have nothin' to do hexcept tell off th' watches an' keep th' boys paintin'. Softer'n your fo'cs'l job, though you won't git no hextra pay wot about it?" "That goes with me," agreed Madden readily. "All right, you signal me about anything you don't understand. Make the men step, lively, same as if you was me." By this time the tug had slowed down a trifle and a boat put out from her.
'Oo, Liza! they shouted; the whole street joined in, and they gave long, shrill, ear-piercing shrieks and strange calls, that rung down the street and echoed back again. 'Hextra special! called out a wag. 'Oh, Liza! Oo! Ooo! yells and whistles, and then it thundered forth again: 'Knocked 'em in the Old Kent Road!
"They had no reason for telling you we were delayed to such an extent as that, without it was to further their own interests," interrupted John, significantly. "But I don't see their game." "I don't know, I'm sure," was the response; "but has I was saying, they asked for an hextra filling of their tanks, hand so well, gentlemen, I am sorry to say it, but there hisn't ten gallons left."
"Ah! `that's just w'ere the shoe pinches' as a old gen'leman shouted to me t'other day, with a whack of his umbreller, w'en I scrubbed 'is corns too hard. `Right you are, old stumps, says I, `but you'll have to pay tuppence farden hextra for that there whack, or be took up for assault an' battery. D'you know that gen'leman larfed, he did, like a 'iaena, an' paid the tuppence down like a man.
Excep for the sake of love, which is above being mersnary, fourteen shillings a wick was a LITTLE too strong for two such rat-holes as he lived in. But that wasn't my business. I saw him grin, sometimes, when I laid down the cold bif of a morning, to see how little was left of yesterday's sirline; but he never said a syllabub: for true love don't mind a pound of meat or so hextra.
She had not actually seen him come in, having been in the kitchen, but she heard his latch-key, followed by his light step up the stairs. A JURYMAN: How do you know it was not somebody else? WITNESS: He called down to me over the banisters, and says in his sweetish voice, "Be hextra sure to wake me at a quarter to seven, Mrs. Drabdump, or else I shan't get to my tram meeting."
"We have not much variety," observed Dumsby to Ruby, in an apologetic tone. "Variety!" exclaimed Forsyth, "what d'ye call that?" pointing to the fish. "Well, that is a hextra morsel, I admit," returned Joe; "but we don't get that every day; 'owsever, wot there is is good, an' there's plenty of it, so let's fall to."
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