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"Well, then, listen Sir Thomas got me put into this strange fellow's sarvice, in ordher to ah ahem why, you see in ordher to keep an eye upon him and, what do you think? but he's jist afther tellin' me that he doesn't think he'll have any further occasion for my sarvices." "Well, a' think that looks suspicious it's an elopement, there's no doubt about it."

When we threaten to throw burning sulphur down the ventilators and suffocate them, they'll sing soft and low!" Mr. Reardon chuckled. "An' Schultz t'ought I was afther bedbugs whin I asked the shteward for the sulphur," he replied. "Shtill an' all, Michael," he added, a trifle wistfully, "I could wish for a bit more excitement, considerin' the size av the job."

Says I to Bouncer, `We'll have that deer; and off we set, making sure that we should come up to him before long. Instead of stopping to be shot, however, the baste took to its heels. To make a long story short, though we followed for many a mile, it got away afther all. Now comes the worst part of the business.

"Faith, afther that look, if you don't know my name, I do yours; there was your mother's eye fastened on me to the life. However, take it easy, sir; devil a bit I'm afeared. If you're not her son, Misther Woodward, why, I'm not Barney Casey, that's all. Don't deny it, sir; you're welcome home, and I'm glad to see you, as they all will be."

At last, afther many years of prosperity, the owld colonel got stricken in years, and he began to have misgivings in his conscience for his wicked doings, and his heart was heavy as the fear of death came upon him; and sure enough, while he had such murnful thoughts, the divil kem to him, and towld him he should go wid him.

"Well, then, I'll tell you, Misther Charles; but you must not be saying anything about it afther, for I don't like to talk about these kind of things." Having pledged myself to the requisite silence and secrecy, Mickey began: "May be you heard tell of the way my father, rest his soul wherever he is, came to his end.

"Praise be!" chortled Murphy. "Somebody got it where it hurts. That Indian, he's a man afther me own hear-rt. Oh, mother, for me shillalah about the heads o' thim!" Ten minutes of complete silence fifteen. Murphy's impatience was becoming vociferous; he began to be jealous of Huggins up there with Mollie, with a fight at hand any time he wanted it. Torrance was scarcely less clamorous.

"Misther Stirling. An' is it engaged yez are for this night?" "No." Peter had nothing. "Then," said Dennis, "maybe ye'll be afther goin' wid me to the primary?" "What primary?" "For the election of delegates to the convention, shure." "No. What party?" "What party is it?" "Yes." "Misther Stirling, do yez know my name?" "Dennis Moriarty, isn't it?" "Yes. An' what's my business?"

What happened afther, it's mesilf can't tell ye at all, for I was restin' quietly by mesilf on the floor on the broad av me back, an' naither av thim takin' annythin' to do wid me except to drown me wid watther betune times.

They're good readin'. Nawthin' cud be better f'r a man whin he's tired out afther a day's wurruk thin to go to his library an' take down wan iv th' gr-reat wurruks iv lithratchoor an' play a game iv dominos f'r th' dhrinks out iv it. Anny other kind iv r-readin', barrin' th' newspapers, which will niver hurt anny onedycated man, is desthructive iv morals.