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The bowlder which supported him was no more stationary than he. He gazed fixedly at the youths, but made no signs and uttered no word. "Begorra, but he's a shtrange gintleman," muttered Tim. "I wonder if he's posin' for his picter." "His firing of the gun proves that he is a friend," said Warren; "so we have nothing to fear from him."
"He said so." "Indade, thin, he was the pore divil!" "And the the person?" inquired Mrs. Bilkins. "Is it the wife, ye mane?" "Yes, the wife: where is she?" "Well, thin, mum," said Mr. Donnehugh, "it's yerself can answer that." "I?" exclaimed Mrs. Bilkins. "Good heavens! this man's as crazy as the other!" "Begorra, if anybody's crazy, it's Larry, for it's Larry has married Margaret."
Russell. "Divil a loie I'm tellin'," said "His Majesty." "It's thrue, so it is. I'm nixt av kin to Heuri Cinq that's Chambord, ye know. The Count av Paris is Orleans, not Bourbon. I'm Bourbon, begorra! An' whin Chambord doies, an' the nixt revolution takes place in France, I'll march on Paris an' give pace to that unhappy counthry. An', be jabers!
There is too much fresh air; for it blows so hard that people are afraid to disturb the thin covering of herbage which overspreads the best part of the island. "If ye break the shkin of 'um, your honour, the wind blows the sand away and leaves your pitaties bare. And, begorra, there are nights when the pitaties thimselves 'ud be blown away."
"But as I was a-sayin' bhoy, I haaven't had a rale good laugh since she died; haave I, Mary?" "I haaven't naither," Mary said. "Aye, but ye've had double throuble, dear." "We never let trouble rob us of laughter when I was here." "Because whin ye wor here she was here too. In thim days whin throuble came she'd tear it t' pieces an' make fun ov aych piece, begorra.
Carson turned, making a grimace while his back was yet toward Corrigan, but grinning broadly when he faced around. "Didn't he now? I wasn't noticin'. But, begorra, how c'ud he be surprised, whin the whole domned country was rocked out av its bed be the blast! Wud ye be expictin' him to fall over in a faint on beholdin' the wreck?"
McGrath as I got into his frail craft at five o'clock in the morning on the bank of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal near Point of Rocks. "It's onconvanient to be outside of the boat whin we're going through them locks. There were a gintleman done that last year, an' he come near lavin' a lot of orphans behind him." "How was that, McGrath?" said I. "Begorra! the divil a child had he," he replied.
"Begorra, to see yez is a soight for sore eyes and to hear yez is music to deaf ears!" chuckled Barney Mulloy. "You're the same old rabid champeen av the downtrodden masses. You're still pratin' away about the coming of the great earthquake." "That's right, by gum!" grinned Gallup. "But, say, why didn't yeou warn the people of Frisco before they gut shook up?"
"On hearing that the Irishman had been frightened, I sought him, expressed to him my regrets, and said that, though big, the dogs were quite harmless. With ready wit he retorted: 'Begorra, it isn't dogs that I am afraid of, but your ladyship keeps lions." "Just one more story," cry the children as I cease speaking, and Mrs. Hamilton points to the clock, as their bedtime is long past.
"Begorra, if they'd ownly tould us afore we lift the ould country we'd a had some big guns, too," said Tim Rooney as he blazed away at a chap with a red sash on in the prow of the proa, taking aim at him with one of the Martini-Henry rifles that had been brought up by the captain from his cabin.
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