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"Captain, if you please, Bob Hampton, and your friend if you are faithful. That will do. Now go to the wheel, and send the ship on her voyage south. She is rolling in the trough of the sea." "Right!" said Bob. "'Spose, captain, you won't be so particklar; man may light his pipe while he is at the wheel." "Oh yes.
I wondher if two hundred years fr'm now people will cease to talk iv William Jennings Bryan. He won't, but will they? "Well, sir, it must be a grand thing to injye good books, but it must be grander still to injye anny kind iv books. Hogan can read annything. He ain't a bit particklar. He's tur-rbly addicted to th' habit.
"Shure, Miss," protested Norah, in deprecation of Kitty's flashing eye, "there's thim that's lived among shnakes and poysin riptiles and faverous disayses that's particklar av the beds and sheets they lie on. Hisht! Howly Mother! it's something else he's wanting now!"
'I propose, says th' State's attorney, 'to prove be some rale experts, men who have earned their repytations be testifyin' eight ways fr'm th' jack in a dozen criminal cases, that so far fr'm bein' insane on this particklar night, this was th' on'y time that he was perfeckly sane. 'Oh, look here, Judge, says Bedalia Sassyfrass iv Th' Daily Fluff, 'this here has gone far enough.
He generally went to his tea at six on that day, Tom waiting till he returned. On the following Saturday at half-past six Jim came into the shop. "I met Eaton's man a minute ago as I wur goin' 'ome. He wanted to see the guvnor particklar, he said." This was partly true, but the "particklar" was not true. "I told him the guvnor warn't in, but you was there.
When he was gone, Phoebe, assuming vast experience, though this was only her third day, told Dick that was one of the right sort: "and oh, Dick," said she, "did you notice his eye?" "Not particklar, sister." "There now; the boy is blind. Why, 'twas like a jewel. Such an eye I never saw in a man's head, nor a woman's neither."
"Did he pay it? did you see him hand over the money?" "I did, and Mr. Catchpole took it and put it in the till. I see'd it go in with my own eyes." "Well, what happened then?" "He locked the till all in a hurry, put the key in his waistcoat pocket; let me see, it wor in his left-hand pocket no, wot am I a- sayin'? it wor in his right-hand pocket I want to be particklar, Mr.
Deuceace had some particklar plans, no doubt, which kep him so long at Balong; and it clearly was his wish to act the man of fortune there for a little time before he tried the character of Paris.
'Nothin' particklar, I think, sir, adding, in an off-hand sort of way, 'you've heard of the greet run, I s'pose, sir? 'Great run! exclaimed the octogenarian, as if it was a matter of the most vital importance to him; 'great run, sir; no, sir, not a word! The doctor then retailed it. Old Jackey got possessed of this one idea he thought of nothing else.
"Don't disturb those people, Anne, they are very good people," said he. Anne. "But so unmannerly, Mr. Bertrand, coming in at such a particklar time." Mr. Bertrand. "Never mind, Anne, they are friends of mine." Anne. "Friends of yours, oh, indeed, Sir; well we did not know that, Thomas, did we? and how could we guess, so queer as they look. Surely now Mr.
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