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Now this is a great misfortin', for it's well known that seals make first-rate beef leastwise to them as ain't partic'lar so we'll set about catchin' of 'em at once." "But how?" asked Stubbs, becoming interested under the influence of his comrade's earnest enthusiasm. "This is how.
Dave told his name, and shook hands. Conward offered his cigarette box, and the two smoked for a few moments in silence. "What kind of a job do you want?" Conward asked at length. "Any kind that pays a wage," said Dave. "If I don't like it I'll chuck it as soon as I can afford t' be partic'lar, but just now I've got to get a grub-stake."
An' there's the shupercargo o' the bit of a vessel as is goin' to take 'em out. I know him partic'lar; he's a solid man, an' got a family i' the town here. Salt, his name is, an' a briny chap he is too, an' if you don't believe me, I can take you to him." Uncle Glegg stood open-mouthed with astonishment at this unembarrassed loquacity, with which his understanding could hardly keep pace.
Attacked a innercent, peaceful traveller only last week, they did; robbed him, took his pony, an' left him lyin' gagged an' bound an' senseless." "Any idea who they are?" Kiddie inquired. "What's their partic'lar way of workin'?" "By all accounts they got a many ways," said the agent. "I dunno just which report ter believe.
Seems she was well enough posted on the styles, and kept the run of whether sleeves was bein' worn full or tight, down over the knuckles or above the elbow, and all that; but her own costume was always the same, a dingy brown dress that fits her like she'd cut it out in the dark and had put it together with her eyes shut, a faded old brown coat with funny sleeves that had little humps over the shoulders, and a dusty black straw lid of no partic'lar shape, that sported a bunch of the saddest lookin' violets ever rescued from the ashheap.
Underneath on the porch, her father, with his men as audience, talked like a torrent. And Lenore, hearing what otherwise would never have gotten to her ears, found listening irresistible. Slow, dragging footsteps and the clinking of spurs attested to the approach of cowboys. "Howdy, boys! Sit down an' be partic'lar quiet. Here's some smokes.
The children soon gave them an opportunity of lingering behind a little, and then Adam said: "Will you contrive for me to walk out in the garden a bit with you this evening, if it keeps fine, Hetty? I've something partic'lar to talk to you about." Hetty said, "Very well." She was really as anxious as Adam was that she should have some private talk with him.
"Wa'al," David replied, "mebbe it had ben some time, but at that partic'lar time the only thing to determine that fact was that it wa'n't nothin' else." "Wa'al, I declare!" exclaimed Mrs. Bixbee, wondering not more at the deacon's turpitude than at the lapse in David's acuteness, of which she had an immense opinion, but commenting only on the former. "I'm 'mazed at the deakin."
Black Jack feels thar's news in the air an' promotes the nose-paint without s'licitation. Enright freights his glass an' then says: "'You-all hears of the noomerous stage robberies? Well, Wolfville lose ag'in. I, myse'f, this trip am put in the hole partic'lar.
If we give in such cases as this, we will not have funds to meet real need." "If you must know," said Mrs. Callahan, "I lent them two dollars to the colored lady next door. Her rent was due on Wednesday and she'll get the money for her wash to-night. I told Peggy not to tell you, for you'd told me so partic'lar not to spend a cent of that money but if you must know, you must.
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