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"I vow to God, Luis, if you would only contrive to let me in a few nights to give you lessons, in less than a fortnight I would make you such a dabster at the guitar, that you need not be ashamed to play at any street corner; for I would have you to know that I have an extraordinary knack in teaching; moreover, I have heard tell that you have a very promising capacity, and from what I can judge from the tone of your voice, you must sing very well."
One of them we saw might have been Joe. Why, Jiminy! we might as well be in New Jersey! Say, I'm afraid up here!" The philosopher smiled fatuously. "The earth," said he, "is itself only as a grain of wheat in space. Look up there." Daisy gazed upward apprehensively. The short day was spent and the stars were coming out above. "Yonder star," said Dabster, "is Venus, the evening star.
H. McKay Twombly's second hall footman, the length of the Hoosac Tunnel, the best time to set a hen, the salary of the railway post-office messenger between Driftwood and Red Bank Furnace, Pa., and the number of bones in the foreleg of a cat. The weight of learning was no handicap to Dabster.
Well, you may tell her she is a dabster at cheese-making. Do you want cash? If you do I'm afeard we shall not be able to trade, because cash is cash these days; but if you are willing to barter I guess we can dicker, for Mr.
I don't want to make out as I'm a dabster at any one thing, gentlemen, but there ain't many things I shouldn't be ready to have a try at, from catching one's dinner to cooking it, or from sewing on buttons to making a shoe." "Look here, Sam, you can shave, I know," said Frank, "for you've shaved me several times."
"Hurray!" shouted Jan. "There she blows, Willie! Ain't you the dabster, though!" The inventor did not immediately acknowledge the plaudits heaped upon him, but it was evident he was gratified by his success for, as he wiped the beads of perspiration from his forehead he sighed deeply. "If I hadn't been such a blame fool I'd 'a' known what the matter was in the first place," he remarked.
"I believe that you make fewer mistakes than I do." "Wal, they say one has to creep a-fore they walk, so I spose I can't be a dabster at the bisness yet but jist look at them folks." "Them folks" were Miss Lottie and a graceful young man who bore a striking resemblance to the young solicitor. The latter was Mr.
"I don't see what induced him to go in, anyhow. He must have known he'd no chance. But I was afraid of Stone he's a born dabster at mathematics, you know, and I only hold my own in them by hard digging." "Why, Stone couldn't have taken the Fraser over you in any case, if you made over seventy," said Roger with a puzzled look. "You must have known that.
Dabster stopped before Joe's booth. Dabster wore a silk hat, and well, Daisy was a woman, and that hat had no chance to get back in its box until Joe had seen it. A stick of pineapple chewing gum was the ostensible object of the call. Joe supplied it through the open side of his store. He did not pale or falter at sight of the hat. "Mr.
Tate and me has given Joyce a real smart white dress, and she's trimmed her old hat all up with little frost flowers. She's a dabster at fixin' things. She's going to look real stylish. You know her mother was that way, though it was sorter knocked out of her, but the last thing she said to me was, 'Isa, I want you to put my grandmother's specs on me when I'm gone.
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