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"Who wants to catch him?" "You don't take my meanin', ma'am, if you'll excuse me," floundered Captain Cai in a sweat. "I ought to ha' said that 'Bias, though one in a thousand, is terrible shy with females or ladies, as I should say." "He'll be all the more welcome for that," said Mrs Bosenna relentlessly. "You must certainly bring him, Captain Hocken."
And in his high, cracked falsetto, that was tremulously bitter for all that he struggled to lift it to a plane of easy jocularity, he exclaimed: "Now see here, Jedge; what's the meanin' of all this? You ain't turned kidnapper, hev you?"
Before the day's out somethin' 'll happen, an' them fish'll have a meanin'." "Hell," said Smoke, dismissing the discussion contemptuously. "An' it'll be hell," Shorty came back. "An' I'll take three more toothpicks with you on them same odds that it'll be sure-enough hell." "Done," said Smoke. "I win," Shorty exulted. "Chicken-feather toothpicks for mine."
Twitt seemed rather sorry for this commonplace end to what she imagined was a thrilling incident "But the way that bird looked at me was somethin' awful! An' when I 'eerd as 'ow you'd found a friend o' yer father's a' trampin' an' wanderin' an' 'ad took 'im in to board an' lodge on trust, I sez to Twitt 'There you've got the meanin' o' that sea-gull!
"Wall," sez I, in meanin' axcents, awful meanin', "when you are married you will change your opinion, you mark my word." And she said, gently, but persistently, "That she guessed she shouldn't; she guessed she was in the right of it." Sez I, "You think when anybody is married they have got beyend all earthly trials, and nothin' but perfect peace and rest remains?" And she sez, gently, "Yes, mem!"
So I was headin' for Lathrop by a trail I'd run across that took around the mountain, and meanin' to keep on as long as I could durin' the night, when all at once something flew up and hit me ker-slap! Say, I thought it was an earthquake, sure I did. And then I found myself hangin' upside down, with all the blood runnin' into my head.
"A great many cars thinks they can take this road; but they all come back. We walks after 'em at our convenience." "Meanin' that the other jaunty is now pursuin' us on his lily feet?" said Pyecroft. "Precisely." Get out!" The man obeyed with alacrity. "See those spars up-ended over there? I mean that wickyup-thing. Hop-poles, then, you rural blighter. Keep on fetching me hop-poles at the double."
But if your inquisitive reader must know about them, you might say that Stafford is givin' his hero I'm meanin', of course, his range boss a hundred dollars a month bein' some tickled over what his range boss has done for him. "An' that there range boss knows when he's got a good thing.
Turning to the north, the landlord waved his hand towards the right. "Two mile, mebbe more, mebbe less. Lies in a bit of a hollow. But you won't see no myrtles less they've growed in the night just a low stone house with a bit of a copse back o't. Mr. Melchard you're seekin', like? He's a girt man wi' the teeth," said the landlord, chuckling. "Big eater?" asked Dick. "Dentist's my meanin', sir.
"I have no doubt," he replied, humorously, "as our quaint old friend used to say, that you are 'well meanin', but we must all submit to fate. I fear you will soon be confined to the dismal lower regions." "Are you sick?" "I was at first." His prediction was soon verified.
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