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Upon hearing the greeting he hung the cloth over the pail and came slowly to the perpendicular, putting his hands, during the operation, upon the small of his back, as if the hinges in that region were old and rusty and needed care. "Oh, well, now, I'll tell you. Nothin' pertickler to complain on, excep' " "Well?" "I don't believe it's quite exactly right." "Tell me about it."
"You'll have to excuse Colonel Ward here. P'r'aps I can say for him, as a pertickler friend, what it wouldn't be modest for him to say himself. The fact is, he's en " The infuriated Ward leaped up and down on the sward and shrieked the road instructions to the wayfarer, who hustled away, casting apprehensive glances over his shoulder.
"Yes, 'm; that was the way it struck me. Bein' gray, I 'lowed it was fer some one she didn't keer fer pertickler." "An' gent's cuffs," continued Mrs. Wiggs; "I noticed them right off.
"Broke her ankle, I think," said the boatswain glibly. "Which way are you going?" "Well, I'm going to Barborough," said the groom; "but my guvnor's rather pertickler." "I'll make it all right with you," said the boatswain.
"Charlie Bryant, bein' a rancher, guess he's roundin' up a bunch of 'strays. Y'see, he's got a few greenback stock he's mighty pertickler about. They was last seen around that pine." Bill stared. "Greenbacked cattle?" he exclaimed incredulously. O'Brien laughed outright, and Bill was no longer left in doubt as to his malady.
"They told me in the house I should find him hereabouts," she went on; "but I've run all over the place and I can't catch sight of him, and I do want him most pertickler." "He isn't here, I know," said Iris. "He's gone over to Dinham in the donkey-cart to fetch parcels from the station." "Oh, dear!" said the young woman, wiping her hot face with her apron, "how orkerd things always do happen!
But she did tell him how Will Banion gits some mules an' packs o' me. From then, plain guessin', he allows ter watch Banion. "My womern keeps sayin' not meanin' no harm thet thar's plenty more necklaces in Cal'for; because she's heard me an' Banion say that word, 'Californy. "Slim guessin' hit were, Miss Molly, but enough fer a man keen as Sam, that's not pertickler, neither.
And, softly toning its drab austerity, here grew the white sage, waving in the breeze, the Indian Paint Brush, with vivid vermilion flower, and patches of fresh, green grass. "The White King, as we Arizona wild-hoss wranglers calls this mustang, is mighty pertickler about his feed, an' he ranged along here last night, easy like, browsin' on this white sage," said Stewart.
Jim, who had been in deep thought, looked up, and said: "Do ye know that that don't seem so queer to me as it used to? It seems all right fur pertickler friends to call me Jim, but clo'es is what puts the Mister into a man. I felt it comin' when I looked into the glass. Says I to myself: 'Jim, that's Mr. Fenton as is now afore ye.
"All right, matey, all right," good-humouredly answered one of the men, "you needn't threaten us no occasion for that; we're not going to split on yer, old man; perhaps, if the truth was knowed, there's others besides yourself as don't feel pertickler comfortable about this here piratin' business I won't mention no names and anyhow you may trust me not to say a word about what we've heard to-day upon it; and there's my hand upon it."
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