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Here again you must pardon the slang but we call the detective the 'busy fellow' to distinguish him from the 'flattie, who is the regular cop. Unless you should be under any misapprehension, Mr.
Before the coming of the obscuring grey of these wet-season days, when the tranquil sea absorbed the lustrous blue of the sky, I discovered myself day-dreaming for a blissful moment or two ere the crude anchor of the flattie slipped slowly to the mud twelve feet below.
I believe there was nothing else injured except the bed-hangings in the back room, which were somehow badly burnt and very much torn in pulling down, and a few of our handsomest shades that were cracked by the heat, and a few plates, which it was hardly fair to expect wouldn't be broken, and the colored glass door in my escritoire, against which Flattie Podge fell as she was dancing with Gauche Boosey; but he may have been a little excited, you know, and she, poor girl, couldn't help tumbling, and as her head hit the glass, of course, it broke, and cut her head badly, so that the blood ran down and naturally spoiled her dress; and what little escritoire could stand against Flattie Podge?
Big and strong and manly as he was, he became as an infant when circumstances compelled him to forego an anticipated excursion by water, and rather than stay in comfort and safety on dry land would if he had so set his mind venture over six miles of stormy sea in a flattie little more commodious than a coffin. He was, on such an occasion, wont to say, "No matter.
Necessity drove me to the acquirement of boat sense, and now I manage my home-built "flattie" mean substitute for the neat yacht which necessity compelled me to part with very courageously in ordinary weather; and I am content to stay at home when Neptune is frothy at the lips.
A flattie slid over the side of the cutter and plopped into the water, and Black Charley, with a couple of downcast boys, came alongside the NAUTILUS. "Hullo, Bill! Hullo, Jim! How's yous getting on? Yous drop on good place. I see yous boys picking up fish like a hen picking up corn." "Not much," replied Jim. "It was pretty thick, but it was only a small patch, and we've pretty well cleaned it up.
Subpose I am at that place Cairnsee, Chrissmiss, I take my flattie anchor out along inlet keep quiet. My heart broke altogether from that drink. Chrissmiss mix 'em up plenty with drink and messin abeaut! Good job you keep out of the way when Chrissmiss he come!" "Behold the child by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw."
Tom, the sport-loving black boy, being on the scene, his flattie was soon afloat, and with a disdainful thrust of the harpoon he impaled the creature, which did not exhibit the least sign of life. Hauled to the surface, Tom declared it to be dead that it had died from natural causes ere the harpoon had touched it. Had ever shark taken quieter exit from this hustling world!
And as all circumstances are questionable to the unimaginative 'flattie, and his no less obtuse friend the 'split, I will retire to the bedroom and stuff my ears with cotton-wool." "You needn't," smiled Beale, "I guess the professor hasn't many secrets from you." "Go on guessing, my ingenious friend," said the parson, smiling with his eyes, "my own secrets I am willing to reveal but adios!"
But it's dollars to doughnuts he's after something, and they've put a flattie around somewhere. Of course I don't know how this frames up with what you told me about young Mahr, but I thought you might dope it out, perhaps." Gard sat down before his writing table, and wrote out a substantial cheque. "There, Brencherly, that's for you. Thank you. Now I put you on this officially.
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