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Now, if it was a dacent throut that were there, he'd be afther acceptin' yer invite in a minit; but them bass begorra! they're not amaynable to the fly at all." Now, if there is anything that I have been brought up to despise, it is fishing with "bait."
"It didn't hurt as much as you expected it would, did it?" the dentist asked, smilingly. "Well, no," replied Pat, hesitatingly, as if doubting the truthfulness of his admission. "But," he added, placing his hand on the spot where the little boy pricked him with the pin, "begorra, little did I think the roots would reach down like that."
Reardon waited until he was certain the fellow was sipping his coffee in the galley; then with the utmost nonchalance he went up on the bridge and hailed Mr. Schultz, who was standing amidships blowing on a cup of coffee. "Begorra," he complained, "Divil a wink can I shleep to-night.
"Begorra!" said the chief, "ye'd ought to be grateful to me for makin' ye put on thim clothes. Ye look loike a commandher-in-chafe, so ye do loike the Juke av Wellington himself. The clothes fit ye loike a glove. I niver saw a betther fit niver. Ye must put on yer sword an' belt, so as to give a finish to it all," and with these words he handed Russell the weapon of war.
An' as soon as the wife an' the crathurs war fairly in bed, he brought out some illigint potteen, an' himself an' Jer Garvan sot down to it; an' begorra, the more anasy Terence got, the more he dhrank, and himself and Jer Garvan finished a quart betune them.
Gallup uttered a cry of exasperation as he recognized the Mexican. "Look here, Barney," he exclaimed, "here's old Wan! Consarn his pate, he's followed Juanita!" "Begorra, we'll have to soak the persistint gint in the neck!" burst from the young Irishman. Murillo backed away a bit, and his hand came forth from his bosom. It grasped a small shining revolver.
"Begorra, an' I'm proud av that very same, Misther Gray-ham," he retorted, not one whit put out by my words, as I imagined he would be. "If other folks had as little to be ashamed av, it's a blissid worrld sure this'd be, an' we'd be all havin' our wings sproutin' an' sailin' aloft, loike the swate little cheroob, they says, looks arter poor Jack!"
My face must have been a picture of facial latitude. "Boys," I said, "here's yer last chance to oblige an Irishman!" "What is it, Pat?" half a dozen shouted in unison. "I want to box any three blinderin' idiots in the room, and all together, begorra! Come on now, ye spalpeens, and show the stuff yer made of!" The only answer was a loud outburst of applause and laughter.
"Phew! begorra, but Oi nivver thought of that!" he ejaculated in sudden dismay. "Oi'm obliged to ye for the hint, misther. We'll load the guns and muskets, and make ready generally for the blagguards, if they have the impidence to be there."
Phil, begorra, I b'lave that cussed Redskin is in this town fur trouble, an' you jist remember he'll git it one av these toimes. He ain't natural Injun. Uncle Cam is right. He's not like them Osages that comes here annuity days. All that's Osage about him is his clothes." While we were talking, Jean Pahusca came silently into the company and sat down under the oak tree shading the walk.
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