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"Happen I'd better be moindin' ma P's an' Q's a bit more. But that's what this un is, yore Grace. He's a `chap' out an' out. An' theer's some as is sayin' he's not a bad sort of a chap either. There's lots o' funny stories about him i' Temple Barholm village.
"Well, we will see how you go on, Bob. We may not find it necessary, you know; but you will find you have to mind your P's and Q's, at Gib. It is a garrison place, you know, and they won't stand nonsense there. If you played any tricks, they would turn you outside the lines, or send you up to one of the caverns to live with the apes." "Are there apes?" Bob asked, eagerly.
I could name you a dozen off-hand, and any one of the dozen would make you mind your P's and Q's, big as you are. Still, they all fight alike rough and tumble, catch-as-catch-can. They come wading in, swinging both arms and you could sail the Retriever through the openings they leave. Know anything about boxing, Matt?" "Not a thing, Mike. I've always had to climb the big fellows."
I've got a shorter catechism and a small tooth comb and I'm going to do my duty by her, now that I've set my hand to the plough, believe me." Mary received the news with chastened satisfaction. "It's better luck than I expected," she said. "You'll have to mind your p's and q's with Mrs. Elliott," said Nan. "Well, I can do that," flashed Mary.
She was just a Tommy's daughter, and never seemed to try and rise above the level of 'married quarters'. "I had to mind my p's and q's as a boy, I can assure you. My mother was always thrown in my teeth. Mrs. Fenley called her 'black. It was a lie. She was dark-skinned, as I am, but there are Cornish and Welsh folk of much darker complexion. My father, too, shared something of the same prejudice.
Thus they stood, four of the Mulberry Hill Gang and two of the Dry Dock Gang, minding their P's and Q's so solicitously that Dutch Mike kept one eye on his customers and the other on an open space beneath his bar in which it was his custom to seek safety whenever the ominous politeness of the rival associations congealed into the shapes of bullets and cold steel.
Obviously the manufacturer of the third kind of article must mind his P's and Q's or he will not sell his product at all. Newspapers, periodicals, and magazines, of course, come under the third class.
Then, as a bright idea suggested itself to the old gentleman, he added: "I tell you what, just cut one or two at first; that'll give you a name for being particular, which is just the thing." Accordingly, with no definite idea as to what was expected of him, except that he was to find out "whether a girl knew her P's and Q's," and was also to "cut one or two of the first candidates," Dr.
"That's easy and no riddle at all," rumbled the A-B-Sea Serpent, who had been listening attentively to the Scarecrow's remarks. "I'll stretch across, and you can walk over." Suiting the action to the word, he began backing very cautiously toward the river so as not to shake the Scarecrow off his feet. "Mind your P's and Q's!" called the Rattlesnake warningly.
'Charley, says papa, not quite relishing this disturbance in the midst of a very interesting badger-baiting 'Charley, my boy, if you don't mind your P's and Q's, you and I shall fall out; mind that; and he again goes on with his sport; and mamma goes on with her teapot, looking not exactly like Patience on a monument. Such are the joys which await you, Mr.
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