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Updated: June 8, 2025
"Course, you ain't catchin' the business here you might if you was located better. And I expect you feel like you was wastin' your talents on a place this size.
"Now pick me up again an' I'll just fix this skirt so there now that's the way. Can you see, now? All right? Well, it'll keep th' fire from catchin' in our hair, an' it'll save your eyes." He laughed.
I'd listened to 'em talking and I'd pumped 'em gradual, but I couldn't git a definite thing and what the help don't know about the crooked places in their bosses ain't generally worth knowin'. Ellen, the maid, ought to 'a' been my best card her sittin' every night at the door catchin' what comes out of the parlors. She couldn't tell a thing.
'E's a hard-working bloke, and ter save 'im trouble I came down 'ere from Brentford, where my boat lies, to catch 'im on 'is rounds. Lot of catchin' 'e wanted, too I don't think. Tracked 'im by the knocks at last. And then, wot d'yer think 'e said? Didn't know nothing about no ruddy 'arf thick 'un, and would I kindly cease to impede a public servant in the discharge of 'is dooty.
"It's a gran' thing, Wullie, to ha' a dutiful son; a shairp lad wha has no silly sens o' shame aboot sharpenin' his wits at his auld dad's expense. And yet, despite oor facetious lad there, aiblins we will ha' a hand in the Killer's catchin', you and I, Wullie he! he!" And the great dog at his feet wagged his stump tail in reply.
A red-faced man half way up the passage started speaking: "When I thinks to myself how much the folks need me home, it makes me feel sort o' confident-like, I dunno why. I juss can't cash in my checks, that's all." He laughed jovially. No one joined in the laugh. "Is it awfully catchin'?" asked Fuselli of the man next him. "Most catchin' thing there is," he answered solemnly.
The Brazilian youth's nonchalant fatalism aroused him to the fact that here both those forms of death were very near him; the one in the air, the other on the ground fever and snakes. For the moment he was depressed. Then curiosity awoke. "If this here, now, Javary fever ain't catchin', how does a feller git it?" "Mosquitoes," McKay enlightened him. "The anopheles.
"Young man," says Old Hickory, catchin' his breath, "if my mental machinery worked at the high pressure speed yours does, I could But I am not noted for being slow. I've done things in a hurry before. I can yet. Torchy, he does get it." "When?" says I. "To-morrow morning," says he. "I'll start him at five thousand." "Whoop!" says I. "Say, you're a sport! I'll go up and deliver the glad news.
I've got the stuff here, look!" holding up the package he was carrying "or a chance for me to do some fly catchin' with me bloomin' tickle tootsies?" The man in the Cingalese costume had vanished from the doorway of the adjoining house, and, catching the boy by the arm, Cleek hurried him to it and drew him into the dark passage.
We ought all to be friends when we live so close together, shouldn't we?" wistfully. Aunt Kate tried her best to tell her that they were all friends, but she couldn't do it. "What's the good of tellin' her folks are friendly when they don't look friendly? Seems if a body can't frown with her face an' smile with her heart at the same time. An' frowns are just as catchin' as germs.
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