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The warm, light kitchen remained untenanted for perhaps twenty minutes, when Jovial, with his Dinah on his arm and a lantern in his hand, entered, Jovial grumbling: "Law-a-mity knows, I don't see what she should be a-wantin' to come here for! partic'lar arter de treatment she 'ceived from ole mis'tess las' night! tain't sich a par'dise nohow for nobody much less for she!
So we runs this partic'lar detective sergeant down, drags him away from a penuchle game, and Whitey begins by suggestin' that we hear how he's done some clever work on the Allston case. "I got him right, that's all," says Mike. "And he'd faked up a nice little stall too." "Anything on him when you rounded him up?" asks Whitey. Donahue shakes his head disgusted. "Stowed it," says he.
"And why not with a red Indian, friend?" inquired the pastor, while a shade of sadness passed over his mild features, as if unpleasant thoughts had been roused by the hunter's speech. "Well, it's not easy to say why," rejoined the other. "I've no partic'lar objection to the redskins. There's only one man among them that I bears a grudge agin, and even that one I'd rayther avoid than otherwise."
"Of course, the poor Signal party, tryin' to write over by a monte table, an' spillin' ink all over himse'f, listens to them remarks, an' it makes him feel partic'lar pensif. "'In five minutes, then, says Peets, 'you-all organize your gent an' come a-runnin'. I must canter over to see how Texas is holdin' himse'f.
"'About them serpents, I overhears Jaybird say to him one evenin' while we-alls is settin' 'round; all but Moore an' Tutt, who's ridin' herd; ''bout them serpents; a gent can't be too partic'lar. It looks like they has but one hope, which it's to crawl into a gent's blankets an' sleep some with him.
Looks a picture, he does and fit to fight for a kingdom." My uncle gave a sigh of relief. "Where is he?" he asked. "He's gone to his room early, sir, seein' that he had some very partic'lar business to-morrow mornin'," said the landlord, grinning. "Where is Belcher?" "Here he is, in the bar parlour."
The cook and I has had a partic'lar dialogue on them matters, already; and I mentioned to her the names of seven different dishes, every one of which she quite as good as admitted to me, was just the same as so much gospel to her." "I shall have to quarantine this fellow, in the long run, Bluewater! I do believe if I were to take him to Lambeth Palace, or even to St.
Yes, the greatest landlord in the land must hunt up his creditor, or be sued, all the same as the lowest tenant." "Und he most bay in a partic'lar ding; he most bay in golt or silver?" "True; lawful tender is as good for one as 'tis for t'other."
After that he took out his pipe, and rammed it with his forefinger, then picked a spill from the table, and stooped to the fire for a light. "Anybody belonging me here?" he said, in a voice like a crow's, coughing as he spoke, the flame dancing over the pipe mouth. "No, Pete, no," said Grannie. "Who were you looking for, at all?" "Nobody," he answered. "Nobody partic'lar.
It'll be Sunday every day of the week with the man that's getting the lavings." "Take a taste of this beef before it goes, Mr. Thomas Quilliam, or do you prefer the mutton?" "I'm not partic'lar, Mr. Cregeen. Ateing's nothing to me but filling a sack that's empty."
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