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"There's a blindin' vixen for you!" commented the Sergeant. "Two inch higher, and she'd have doused your light out. Where did she come from, d'ye know?" "Have you any idea who she was?" asked the Commander of the picket. W. Keyse shook his head. "'Aven't the least idear, sir. Never sor 'er before in my natural!" he declared stoutly.
There was the bosh trench about 20 yds. from us but not a sound out of them and a man couldn't help from thinking what if they had of heard us out there and they was getting ready to snoop up on us and that's why they was keeping so still and it got so as I could feel 1 of their bayonets burrowing into me and I am no quitter Al when it comes to fighting somebody you can see but when you have got a idear that somebody is cralling up on you and you haven't no chance to fight back I would like to see the bird that could enjoy themself and besides suppose my ears had went back on me worse then I thought and the Dutchmens was realy makeing a he ll of a racket but I couldn't hear them and maybe they was getting ready to come over the top and I wouldn't know the differents and all of a sudden they would lay a garage and dash out behind it and if they didn't kill us we would be up in front of the court's marshal for not warning our pals.
"See here, my girl," he said sharply, "you must not behave in this fashion. I have reason to believe that the assassin of Mr. Vrain entered the house through the premises of your mistress." "Lawks, what a 'orrible idear!" shrieked Mrs. Bensusan. "Good 'eavens, Rhoda, did you see the murdering villain?" "Me? No! I never sawr nothing, mum," replied Rhoda doggedly.
'Take this idear that the world is round, for instance; I fail to see it! And then they say as Hawstralia is on the other side of the globe, underneath our feet. In my opinion it's ridiculous, because if it was true, wot's to prevent the people droppin' orf? 'Yes: well, of course it's very strange, admitted Sweater. 'I've often thought of that myself.
My friends drained their pannikins; Thompson threw his at the tucker-box, and Cooper was just aiming his, when Willoughby, who had shared the frosted mutton, interposed "If you please, Cooper." "Can't see much worse," mused Thompson. "Hold on till he gits old." "People seem to think Gawd made these here colonies for a rubbage-heap," said Bum. "That's the English idear of"
"Don't run away with the idear that nobody knows who Columbus was," retorted Bum. "Pardon me if I differ from you, Mosey," replied Willoughby blandly. "A few months ago, I travelled the Lachlan with a man fitted by birth and culture to be a leader of society; one whose rightful place would be at least in the front rank of your Australian aristocracy.
Miss Tucker added a superfluous r to some words, but then she made amends by dropping the final r where it was preceded by a broad vowel. If she said idear, she compounded for it by saying waw. She said lor for law, and dror for draw, but then she said cah for car. Some of our Americans are as free with the final r as the cockney is with his initial h.
Barber was against a wall, choking, spluttering. "You you you !" he panted. "The idear o' hittin' a man without warnin'!" "I know," agreed Mr. Perkins, good-naturedly. "Also, the idea of pulling a man's nose without warning." Now Big Tom was in the proper frame of mind for the fight. "You go on downstairs!" he ordered.
By way of compensation the hillsmen sometimes insert a euphonic r where it has no business; just as many New Englanders say, "The idear of it!" Throughout Appalachia such words as last, past, advantage, are pronounced with the same vowel sound as is heard in man.
'Flies is provided by nature with a gluey substance which oozes out of their feet for the purpose of enabling them to walk upside down. 'There's one thing that seems to me to finish that idear once for all, said Grinder, 'and that is water always finds its own level.
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