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De moon is full now, an' de light is too bright. Four nights from now it will rise purty late, an' den we'll proceed to bizness. We'uns want a leetle light to show us how to git in de bawn an' move 'round. I hear dad callin' me to go plowin', so we'uns must be goin'. Dis is Friday. Come to de house tomorrer evenin', an' we'uns'll settle de partic'lars."
"You see, March, when I first came to this part o' the world I fell in with a comrade a trapper much to my likin'. This trapper had been jilted by some girl, and came away in a passion, detarminin' never more to return to his native place. I never know'd where he come from, nor the partic'lars of his story, for that was a pint he'd never speak on. I don't believe I ever know'd his right name.
"Here's a cable blank," says I. "Frame up your call to the Baron while I state the case to Mr. Steele." He couldn't see it at all, J. Bayard couldn't. "What!" says he. "Waste all that money on such a wretch! Why, the woman is unworthy of even the most " "What's that got to do with it?" says I. "Pyramid didn't put that in the bill of partic'lars, did he? Maybe he had doubts about himself.
Looks like Kid just came in with the mail." "He started after it when I rode out to look for a couple of strays," said Slim. "Beckon he jest come back. You boys'll hear more partic'lars now, I reckon." "Particulars of what?" asked Nort. "Was that what you started to say when Bud shot the rattler?"
"I wouldn't back it with my word, Elder, unless I was prepared to go the whole v'y'ge. Do you mean to say that you accept that gal's story as true in all partic'lars?" "I don't say that." "Then I shall stick to my opinion. She's as loony as she can be. And I am plumb against insulting our Ida May by letting the girl come up here. What do you say, Prudence?" The old woman was much perturbed.
"'Why, that girl you're engaged to, says I. 'Miss and I yelled her name, and how she'd gone abroad with his folks, and all. "'Shut up! he whispers, waving his hands, frantic. 'Don't stop to lie. Hurry up! "''Tain't a lie. Oh, I know about it! I hollers, as if he was deef. I meant to be heard by him and anybody else that might be interested. I give a whole lot more partic'lars, too.
Torchy, did you know that it was illegal to shoot deer during certain months of the year?" "You can be pinched for shootin' craps any time," says I. "Really?" says he. Then he goes on with his tale, givin' me all the partic'lars, so I wouldn't make any batty moves.
"I have a suspicion of it, but are you afraid to trust me?" "You ought to know better than to ask that." "Go ahead then and give me the partic'lars." "In the first place then, the lieutenant is young and good looking." "Unfortinitly there can't be any doubt of that." "Nellie Dawson has never seen a handsome young man " "Exceptin' you and me, and we ain't as young as we once was."
From the description he gives we figure out that he's been somewhere up on Washington Heights and has got into an argument with a janitor that didn't like being rung up from the basement and asked how far it was to Whitehall-st. Well, we fixes him up, writes out all the partic'lars of his route on a card, and gives him a fresh send-off.
"After some argument Dick seed the p'int, and agreed, and we went at it. Wal, I needn't dwell on the partic'lars. Dick put up a stiff fight, and might have give me a good deal of trouble if it hadn't been that he was weakened by whiskey, while I had long got rid of the effects of the last drop.
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