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"Go on the stage?" guessed Lulu, breathlessly. "Nit; he's too cheap a guy for that. He wanted me to marry him and go down to Coney Island for a wedding tour!" Big Jim Dougherty was a sport. He belonged to that race of men. In Manhattan it is a distinct race.
"Say, young feller, if yeh go shootin' off yer face at me, I'll wipe d' joint wid yeh. What'cher gaffin' about, hey? Are yeh givin' me er jolly? Say, if yeh pick me up fer a cinch, I'll fool yeh. Dat's what! Don't take me fer no dead easy mug." And as he glowered at the little Cuban, he ended his oration with one eloquent word, "Nit!"
To have come among the Anglo-Saxons three or four years sooner would have been an advantage; to have deferred coming three or four years longer, a calamity. "Yep, they 'reach' us good and hard," said O'Grady; "processions of millionairesses and peeresses marching through the halls with gold crowns on their heads and bags of double-eagles in both hands nit. We did have a real swell, though once.
It would be a great place up there for a feller's soul to float provided he had one restin' a while in that yaller one, or the rose-colored one up yonder, or takin' a dip into that hazy purple and disappearin'. Personally, he told himself, he believed that when he was dead he was dead as a nit, and he'd never seen anything about dying folks to make him think otherwise.
When I find anything on the table, I know Rita's been. I've knowed Rita since she was a baby and I've always knowed her for a good gal." "Well, Jake; I will keep your secret as if I had never heard it. But don't allow that drunken chum of yours, Mike, to lead you astray." "Guess nit! Mike's got to sign the pledge same's me," he laughed in his guttural way. I stood at the door.
'Hit it out, meant that he would use an outcurve, and " "Holy smoke!" gasped Hooker. "It's a wonder nobody got on. Do you suppose Lander " "Nit. That big bonehead didn't tumble. He was simply sore because I was a student at Oakdale and seemed to be rooting for Barville. All the same, he stuck to me like a leech, and I had to quit or get into a nasty fight with him.
Will you start me up as a stockman, with a little herd all my own?" "Russ, this's durn strange, comin' from Sampson's cowboy," he said. "I'm not in his outfit. My job's with Miss Sampson. She's fine, but the old man? Nit! He's been after me for weeks. I won't last long. That's one reason why I want to start up for myself." "Hoden sent you to me, did he? Poor ol' Jim.
Beneath an old oak-tree upon a hillock, sloping pleasantly to the south, and catching a distant view of the sea over two or three rich enclosures, and the Mussel-crag, lay a moss-grown stone, and, in memory of the departed worthy, it bore an inscription, of which, as Mr. Here lyeth John o' ye Girnell; Erth has ye nit, and heuen ye kirnell.
"My heart leaped into my throat, an' fur a min nit I hadna a word, fur I saw summat wui up, though I couldna tell what it wur. But at last my voice come back. "'Good evenin', Mester, I says to him; 'I hope yo' ha'not broughten ill-news? What ails thee, dear lass?
Dick stationed Gable in a convenient tree, with strict orders to cry 'nit' should anybody come in sight from the black clump of fir-trees surrounding the squatter's house. Then he led his party over the fence and along thick lines of currant bushes, creeping under their cover to where the beautiful white-heart cherries hung ripening in the sun.
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