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"Sure you'd not be afther venturing into the water?" observed Tim. "No; but perhaps the bird may float near the bank, and we may draw it in with a large stick." It appeared to me that the duck was already floating in towards the shore, when a black snout was seen above the surface, and the next instant the bird was snapped up and carried off by another alligator.
"O'Rorke," said the magistrate, "this is a serious charge against you. I trust you may be able effectually to meet it." "I must wait, your worship, till I hear fully what it is first," replied Lamh Laudher, "afther that I'm not afraid of clearin' myself from it."
"Oh, trust a quiet devil like yourself to pick wan out," said the little station agent. "I was the same meself, whin I was more younger nor what I am now. I fell dead in love with a fine, big gyurrl be th' name iv iv dom'd if I don't forget the name iv her, onless it was Mary or Josephine no, thim came afther. What th' divil are ye laughin' at?
Hester asked indifferently, still staring ahead into the advancing storm, and trembling with cold from head to foot. "Why, sum o' the dippin' stuff got into yan eye, and blinded him. It was my son, gooin afther th' lambs i' the snaw, as found him. He heard summat a voice like a lile child cryin' an he scratted aboot, an dragged th' owd man out.
"'Whin th' noise partially subsided, th' bold Congressman, his face livid with emotion, was heard to remark with a sob: 'I was on'y about to say I second th' motion, deary. Th' bill was carried without a dissintin' voice, an' rushed over to th' Sinit. There it was opposed be Jeff Davis but afther a brief dialogue with th' leader iv th' suffrageites, he swooned away.
"I have it now! there's me darlin' pipe! I was afther forgettin' I put it there; it was turned upside down in the crack an' all me baccy's spilt on me!" Roseen could at first scarcely believe her own eyes and ears; this then was the solution of the mystery which had so long baffled them.
"We were on the bridge, don't you see, and plinty was passing by with their grins, and loitering and stopping afther they were behind her back to hear what was going on betune us. Annybody does be liking to got the sound of loud talk an' they having nothing better to do.
"Was that before or afther the Black Prophet came to live in this counthry?" "Afther it afther it. No, no!" he replied, correcting himself; "I am wrong; it was before he came here." "Then he could have had no hand in it?" "Him! Is it him! Why, what puts such a thing as that into your head'?"
An' afther thot's all over, we're goin' t' take anither kind of a flight into good old Frisco." Chick instantly asked Pat if he knew where San Francisco might be. "Faith, 'tis only th' ould doc knows, laddie. But when we git there, 'tis Pat MacPherson that's a goin' for Toddy Maloney." "I don't know that name." "Bedad, I do. Him it was thot give me th' dhrink." "What drink?"
I'd work from light to light; I'd work before hours an' afther hours; ay, nine days in the week, or we'd be comfortable in our own little home. We might be poor, Kathleen, I know that, an' hard pressed too; but then, as I said, we'd have our own home, an' our own hearth; our morsel, if it 'ud be homely, would be sweet, for it would be the fruits of our own labor."
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