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"A very good place, I have no doubt." "Oh, yes, mum. It is a good place. I hain't much to do, barrin' going out with the children on good days, and seein' after them in the house; and I get good wages." "I'm very glad to hear it, Kitty; and hope you will not give up so good a home." "No, indeed, mum; and I won't do that. But Mrs. Claudine " Kitty's face flushed, and she stammered in her speech.
"Bee-dad it's too thru; but I'll tell your hanur how it happened. I wus workin fur the last three days fur my lan'lady, which av coorse goes agin the rint; and whin I cum home yisterday evenin, throth, barrin I tuck the bit from the woman and childre, sorra a taste I could get so sis I, Biddy jewel, I'm mighty sick intirely, an I cant ate any thing. Well, she coxed me but I didn't.
"When I touched fut in New York, didn't I swear that I'd never dhraw swoord more, barrin' it was agin the ould red tyrant and oprissor of me counthry? Wasn't I glad to be dhrivin' me own hack next year in Philamedink like a gintleman? Oh, the paice and the indipindence of it! But what cud I do when the counthry that tuk me and was good to me wanted an ould dhragoon? An Amerikin, ye say!
"He never heard a word of it," replied Donnel, "barrin' from yourself." "From me!" replied Rody, indignantly; "what do you mane by that?" "Why, when you went to sound him," said Donnel, "you let too much out; and Charley was too cute not to see what you wor at."
And here I am, under another safe Commander. Four months and no fight, nearly up to the ould First, that sarved three months without sight of a Rebel, barrin' he was a prisoner, or in citizen dress, like some we have left behind us." "Boys, Terence tells the truth about Patterson's movements," said the tall Lieutenant.
From their glances Clayton saw that Easter was the subject of it. "I guess they don't want her to shoot-them that hain't won nothin'," said Uncle Tommy. She hev come in late," Clayton heard one say, " 'n' she oughtn' to shoot. Thar hain't no chance shootin' ag'in her noways, 'n' I'm in favor o' barrin' her out." Oh no; let her shoot "-the voice was Raines's.
"Ay," replied Darby; "then, upon my sowl, you're all of a kidney all jack fellow like an' divil rasave the dacent creed among you, barrin' the Quakers, and may heaven have a hand in me, but I think I was born to be a Quaker, or, any way, a Methodist.
Sure Pettier, acushla, where 'ud be the use of us or any one takin' land, barrin' they could make somethin' by it? Faix, if the gintleman had sinse, he wouldn't give the same farm to anybody at sich a rint; an' for good rasons too bekase they could never pay it, an' himself 'ud be the sufferer in the long run." "Dang me, but you're the long-headedest woman alive this day, Ellish.
Surely he was not an Indian, speaking like this! He was an old, old man with a wrinkled face, white hair, and a matted white beard and dim blue eyes. In dress and manner, however, he was very little different from his companions. "It's the only language that I c'n speak," said Rube. "Barrin' your own," winked the medicine man. "But you're not the only one of your tribe that can speak English.
I was rejuced aftherward, but, no matther, I was a Corp'ril wanst. "Well, this Sweethearts' business wint on like most amshure theatricals, an' barrin' fwhat I suspicioned, 'twasn't till the dhress-rehearsal that I saw for certain that thim two he the blackguard, an' she no wiser than she should ha' been had put up an evasion." "A what?" said I. "E-vasion! Fwhat you call an elopemint.
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