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Rufe was roused to defend himself. "Hain't teched 'em, now!" he cried, acrimoniously. "Waal, sometimes ye air sorter loose-jointed in yer jaw, an' ain't partic'lar what ye say," rejoined his mother, politely. "I'll waste a leetle yerb-tea on ye, ennyhow." She started back into the room, and Rufe rose at once. This cruelty should not be practiced upon him, whatever might betide him at the tanyard.
"Come now, that won't do; you know my references to allusions was the leftenant and the young lady. I say things look better as regards the same." "In what way?" "In the only way there could be. They don't care partic'lar for each other." "There is no doubt they did some time ago." "Of course, but I mean now." "How do you explain the change, Wade?"
"Jeekie, did you really see anything at all?" "No, Major, nothing partic'lar, except ghost of Mrs. Jeekie and of your reverend uncle, both of them very angry. That magic all stuff, Major. Asika put something in your grub make you drunk, so that you think her very wise. Don't think of it no more, Major, or you go off your chump. If Jeekie see nothing, depend on it there nothing to see."
Simpson smiled an indulgent smile and looked a trifle bored at these frequent appeals to his extremely rusty higher feelings. "I don' know's I've got any partic'lar int'rest in the country," he remarked languidly. "I know I don't owe nothin' to it, nor own nothin' in it!"
Nine persons out of ten wouldn't have noticed it. I'm extry partic'lar, I presume likely. I'm findin' mistakes like that all the time." Laban's comment was less critical, perhaps, but more reserved. "It's pretty good, Al," he said. "Yes er yes, sir, it's pretty good.
No, they're orphans or widders or somethin'. There's always a lot of orphans an' widders about this 'All, partic'lar on a Sunday afternoon when they're doin' 'Andel's Messiar. And the Elijiar, too! You know! Mendelssohn's bit! Reg'lar fascination for orphans an' widders that 'as. I call it depressin' meself, but some 'ow it seems to fit in with orphans an' widders!..."
"Johnny passes the invalid a cinnamon stick an' exhorts him to chew on that, which he does prompt an' satisfactory, like cattle on their cud. This cinnamon keeps him steady for 'most five minutes. "'Whatever is the matter with this savage? I asks of Johnny. "'Nothin' partic'lar, says Johnny.
"If so be folks worrit you on the streets, a'lays holler for a cop," said the guardian of the peace. "We'll take care of you. That's what we're here for. And I've chillen of me own and a'lays look out partic'lar for the little ones." "Thank you, thank you! Good-by." Anne's disturbed looks would have excited comment, had her friends not been occupied with troubles of their own.
"Well, Dick," said our hero, apostrophizing himself, as he left the office; "you're gettin' up in the world. You've got money invested, and are goin' to attend church, by partic'lar invitation, on Fifth Avenue. I shouldn't wonder much if you should find cards, when you get home, from the Mayor, requestin' the honor of your company to dinner, along with other distinguished guests."
They are difficult to understand; and I would rather not meddle with what I can't understand." "Poh, poh, man; you must get over that. You might be of great use to me, Jack, in a very delicate affair for you know how it is with women; they must be handled as a man would handle this brig among breakers; Rose, in partic'lar, is as skittish as a colt."
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