Turned out later that he was tryin' to compliment that Irishman by sayin' he was a particular sort of feller.

These folks on the stage might be sayin' most anythin', and I wouldn't know it.

But I sha'n't knock 'em down, for I like the way it's said.

When the Almighty give us music he more than made up for makin' us subject to toothache, didn't he." Pearson bought a copy of the libretto, and the captain followed the performance of the next two acts with interest.
"Say, Jim," he whispered, with a broad grin, "it's a good thing this opera idea ain't carried into real life.

If you had to sing every word you said 'twould be sort of distressin', 'specially if you was in a hurry.