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"I just as soon," said Henry Rooter. "I got nothin' p'ticular to do." "I haven't either," said Herbert. Thereupon, Patty sat between them on the steps. "This is per-feckly grand!" she cried. "Come on, Florence, aren't you going to sit down with all the rest of us?"
"Maybe they ain't catchin' p'ticular hell at that wheel to hold her from yawing!" muttered the tug captain to his neighbour, who happened to be Mr. Duncan, the minister. Almost before Carroll had time to see that the little craft was coming in, she had arrived at the outer line of breakers.
The section men's been workin' off down the other way, where a culvert got scorched up pretty bad. By granny, Fred 'n' Bill Madison spend might' nigh all their time ridin' the trail to town. They're might' p'ticular about watchin' the railroad between the switches he-he!" "That's something for the Double Diamond to worry over," Kent rebuffed.
Go straight up to prexy's house; I've got something p'ticular to shay t' him. Shame, way the team sold out t'-day! Disgrace to old Winthrop! Have a good mind to leave the college myself an' go to Alden; they're men there! They know how to stan' up an' take their med'cine. Great place, Alden! Guess they'll be shorry here when they shee me with a great big A on my sweater!"
And," he added, with malicious satisfaction, while he rolled Andy over and tied a perfectly unslippable knot behind, "it gives me great pleasure to hand the dose out to you, in p'ticular. If I was a mean man, I'd hand yuh the boot a few times fer luck; but I'll save that up till next time."
"One of 'em never mind placing him on his own p'ticular limb of the family tree has been doggin' me all morning," he said at last, and waved a fishy hand toward the bluff which towered high above them. "Saw him when I was comin' up, about sunrise, pokin' along behind me in the sagebrush.
An' what's more, ther's a printed notice up about him, an' he's a defaulter, and there's five thousand dollars for whoever catches him, an' he's stole twenty-five, an' he's all described in the notice, as p'ticular as if he was a full-blood Alderney cow." "Poor fellow," sighed the deacon, for which interruption he received a withering glance from Miss Peekin.
"We don't want anything p'ticular," said Marjorie, who did not wish to be intrusive; "we did want a drink of water out of the brook, but we had nothing to drink from, and then we saw you building a basket, and we just came over to look at you. You don't mind, do you?" "No, I don't mind," and the man's voice was a little less gruff as he looked at Marjorie's pretty smiling face.
"I suppose," he remarked reflectively, going off on one of his strange tangents, and lapsing once more into his customary picturesque speech, "that these old boys that burned those Salem witches was pretty well thought of in Salem deacons in the church, and all such; p'ticular elect, and held up to the kids for high moral examples? had the plumb universal approval in those torchlight efforts of theirn?"
To him it seemed as if the cab was scarcely moving on its way to Leland Hall. The way was interminable, the suffering almost too great to be endured. At last, however, the driver stopped before the dormitory where Mott had his room and Foster said, "Will, I'll look after this fellow if you'll attend to Peter John." "Nobody no freshman in p'ticular ish going to help me!" exclaimed Mott noisily.
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