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Worth told me that there would be another man and a kid to go back with us, but I know that Mr. Worth hadn't never seen them before himself." Pat shifted his heavy bulk to face the driver and, removing his pipe from his mouth, asked with deliberation: "An' do ye mane to tell me that this place we're goin' to is on the new line av the Southwestern an' Continental?" "Sure.
"I don't know, Bud, I'd hate to come down here for nothing, after all we've gone through; but don't you worry about that; there'll be plenty to be done before the whole Cheyenne gang is finished." "It'll be a sight worth seein' anyhow, this parade," O'mie declared. "Do you remember the day Judge Baronet took his squad out av Springvale, Phil? What a careless set av young idiots we were then?"
"Why, they stole them out of the judge's office and lost them where Rand and Pepper found them. I've been studying this thing out ever since the night we were in the judge's office. You see, there was suspicion of some of us and I wanted to clear it off. It's all as clear as day now." "Whin the fog's so thick ye c'ud cut it with a knife," put in Gerald. "Give us a diagram av it."
Mike is now washing a prodigious quantity of potatoes in a large iron pot, "a grate crop of praties this year, but the salt water plays the divil with the keeping av them, like that," and he holds up one with a red mark on it in his gigantic paw. I kept wondering if they were really going to eat all these potatoes at one meal.
It's it's that man's death, isn't it, Mary?" "'Deed, Mr. Thady, I s'pose that war the first on it. Poor young lady! in course she feels it. Wouldn't I feel it, av any one was to knock poor Denis on the head? not that it's the same thing, altogether, for the Captain wasn't her lawful wedded husband. Not that I'm saying agin you, Mr Thady, for what ye did."
"Only don't run into any danger. We can't afford to loose you, bo'sun." "Troth I'll take care av that same, sorr," returned Tim with a laugh. "I wants another jollification ashore afore I'd be after losin' the noomber av me mess." I had come down from off the poop with Mr Mackay, and now, standing by his side, watched with anxiety Tim's movements.
The poor girl knew how ill she was, and expected her death; and when the widow told her that Doctor Colligan was going to call on her brother, she said that she hoped she should see Barry once more before all was over. "Mother," said Martin, as soon as the Doctor's back was turned, "you'll get yourself in a scrape av you go on saying such things as that about folk before strangers."
'Are you sure you've got the hang av the manewvers? sez he, or wurrds to that effec', as the coort-martial sez. 'Sure as death, sez she, 'but I misdoubt 'tis cruel hard on my father. 'Damn your father, sez he, or anyways 'twas fwhat he thought, 'the arrangement is as clear as mud.
D'ye know the double-an'-twist?" he suddenly added, "for it's a honey trick whin they gather in an you, an' you can't be layin' out wid yer fists. It plays the divil wid the spines av thim. Will ye have a drop av drink cold water, man near, an' a sponge betune whiles? For there's manny in the play makin' up for lost time.
"It's ownly goin' to that Yankee astern av us; but the tide bein' on the ebb, in course, they've got to make foorther up the strame towards this vessel, so as to fetch their own craft handsomely d'ye see?"
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