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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Shorty," said Si, as he watched some of the boys laboring with sandpaper, rotten stone and oil to make the gunbarrels shine like silver, "what's the cense o' bein' so partickler about the outside of a gun? The business part's inside. Making them screw heads look like beads don't make it no surer of gitting Mr. Butternut."
"Oh! wery partickler," said Gillie, responding to his patron's glance with a powerful wink. Expressing a hope that Susan would keep Mrs Roby company till he returned, the Captain left the room with his usual heavy roll, and the spider followed with imitative swagger. Captain Wopper was fond of mystery.
"But what brought you to New Orleans? or, more particularly, how came you into this scrape?" "Wal, Cap'n, bein' as the last question is the most partickler, I'll gin yur the answer to it fust. I hed jest twelve dollars in my pouch, an' I tuk a idee inter my head thet I mout as well double it. So I stepped into a shanty whar they wur a-playin' craps.
You've no idea, ma'am, what a lot o' queer things get mixed up in the mail-bags out of bust letters and packages all along of people puttin' things into flimsy covers not fit to hold 'em. "We're very partickler, Miss Lillycrop, in regard to these things," continued Solomon, with a touch of pride.
Spurning it from him, he had just time to plunge into his place of repose and haul the clothes over him, when Polly emerged from her lair with wondering eyes. "What ever was that, father?" "Nothin', my dear, nothin' in partickler only a cask I kicked over.
Even at the dentist's she never could be got to open her mouth, because he had once hurt her; she flatly refused to do so, and no amount of "Now open, please," ever had the least effect on her firm decision. She was taken in vain to see the dentist. This last Saturday of the week, however, she opened. "I've not had my partickler adventure," was what she said.
'Wot abaht? anythin' in partickler? She would drag it out of him if she possibly could. 'Not thet I knows on, he said, smiling. 'Good night! she said, abruptly, turning away from him. 'Well, I'm damned if 'e ain't forgotten! she said to herself, sulkily, as she marched home.
We may come back mighty fast, an' it might be the very thing that we wanted most at that partickler time." He laughed, and the others laughed, too. The canoe was well hidden among the bushes, and then the five borderers disappeared in the forest. A score of Indian chiefs sat in the center of a little, almost circular, prairie, about a half mile across.
Vun o' these dummies wos a favrite vith him beyond the others; and ven any of his acquaintance asked him wy he didn't get married as the young ladies he know'd, in partickler, often did he used to say, "Never! I never vill enter into the bonds of vedlock," he says, "until I meet vith a young 'ooman as realises my idea o' that 'ere fairest dummy vith the light hair.
'W-h-o-y, ar thought you'd been a fox-hunter, observed Facey, seeing his guest's disconcerted look. 'Well, but bein' a fox-hunter won't enable one to sleep in a band-box, or to shut one's-self up like a telescope, retorted the indignant Sponge. ''Ord hang it, man! you're so nasty partickler, rejoined Facey; 'you're so nasty partickler. You'll never do to go out duck-shootin' i' your shirt.
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