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"I'll make a clean breast o't," Dunwoodie replied, seeing that in this matter truth was best. "The laddie was terrible against being made a gentleman, and when he saw the kind o' life he would hae to lead, clean hands, clean dickies, and no gutters on his breeks, his heart took mair scunner at genteelity than ever, and he ran hame.
Here she stood for a minute without speaking, as though lost in the beauty of her home: then, pointing to the walls, she said: "It took me ages, I did it all myself. And look at my little Japanese trees; aren't they dickies?" Six little dark abortions of trees were arranged scrupulously on a lofty window-sill, whence the skylight sloped.
But Emily knew that the necks of women are protected by love of shining, unto fourscore years, and she only answered: "Let me put you on one of those dickies I got you, James; then you'll only have to change your trousers, and put on your velvet coat, and there you'll be. Val likes you to look nice." "Dicky!" said James. "You're always wasting your money on something."
Hot weather came, and they went to the seaside with an efficient relative called Ethel, and Ethel's five children. Later, back in London, Gerald said, in his daughter's hearing, that he had made "rather a good thing of that little game of Bobbie's. Enough to tide us over what? Especially if the Dickies ask us down for a bit," he had added. The Dickies did ask them down for a bit.
So now the children went on through the wood more quickly and comfortably, the girls picking flowers and the Lamb inviting the 'pretty dickies' to observe that he himself was a 'little white real-water-wet duck! And all this time he hadn't whooping-coughed once.
I saw in a wink what they were jaloosin'. "Ye needna bather your heids ahoot a cab," says I. "I'm wyser than the twa o' ye puttin' thegither; so keep on your dickies. Gude-nicht," says I; an' doon the front staps I gaed, three at a time, an' hame. The beathel cam' doon afore he gaed hame, an' speered what i' the world had happened.
In this locality he began a search for Series B of the dickies, and was finally successful, after a number of disappointments and a protracted hunt. With the courage of his recently acquired situation, Dennis proposed to indulge in a little improvidence. He decided that he would follow the singular recital on the dickey backs and rip off a chapter at a time.
The young gentlemen complained of the patches of starch grimed to their collars, and the streaks of black coal ironed into their dickies, while one week every pocket-handkerchief in the house was starched so stiff that you might as well have carried an earthen plate in your pocket; the tumblers looked muddy; the plates were never washed clean or wiped dry unless I attended to each one; and as to eating and drinking, we experienced a variety that we had not before considered possible.
"I do though, I can tell you. I hate Dickies they are always in the way, and the captain has to keep just as much of a watch with one as without one." "That will depend on his quality. You and I have both been Dickies in our time, sir; and my time was not long ago." "Ay ay I know all about it but you didn't stick to it long enough to get spoiled.
Most of them, faced and porticoed with florid pillars, were mere dickies opening upon nothing, and only the huge armorial bearings showed that they had ever been owned. Mixed with these 'palaces. were 'cat-faced cottages' and pauper, mildewed tenements, whose rusty iron-work, tattered planks, and broken windows gave them a truly dreary and dismal appearance.
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