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"Begorrah, but he shpakes the truth. I wint up among the mountains to hunt gowld." "And what luck had you?" "Luck, is it?" repeated the Irishman, with an expression of ludicrous disgust.
Begorrah! but it was meself that used to walk five miles and back agin ivery Sunday night in Tipperary to see Bridget Ann Mulloney, and then lost her after all when I'd spent almost half a pound on her." "There's another thing I'd like to buy, beside our rifles," said Elwood. "What is that?" "A canoe. See how smoothly the savage floats down the river.
"Hooray!" he cried out, against the regulations, though, fortunately for himself, not too loud, as he skated down the hatchway. "Begorrah, it's the foorst money Oi iver arnt in me loif! Faith, Tom mabouchal, we'll spind it togither an' hev a rig'ler jollification ashore!"
'Begorrah! and what'll becoom of the shtame mian and the boy? inquired Mickey, as he hastily obeyed orders. 'Jerusalem! exclaimed the Yankee, in great trepidation, 'if he isn't warned, they'll catch him sure, and then what'll become of us? We'll have to walk all the way hum.
Curran made a hare of yer honor that day. Begorrah I wonder ye ever held up yer head after." Here a burst of laughter at the recollection seemed to escape Darby so naturally, that its contagious effects were felt throughout the assembly. "You are a wit, Mr. M'Keown, I fancy, eh?" "Bedad I 'm not, sir; very little of that same would have kept out of this to-day."
Ef it wor a chap loike that `Ugly' now, the sulky baste ez wouldn't hev a koind wurrd fur ye, loike a Christian, since ye saved his rascally loife last year, begorrah, Oi could say the sinse ov it; but, fur a chap loike yersilf, Tom, fur to do it, with ivverythin' to loose, Oi'm ashamed on ye!"
As he spoke, he stooped down, and seizing the arm of the man, shook it quite hard several times, but without waking him. "Begorrah, but he acts as if he had n't a week of sleep since he had emigrated to the West. I say, Thompson, me ould boy, can't ye arouse up and bid us good night?" While Mickey was speaking in this jocose manner, he had again seized the man, but this time by the shoulder.
Last night, as you know, it was cold enough in all conscience; but that will be nothing to what we may expect later on when the regular gales and sea-fogs and snowstorms set in, and they continue for weeks, I believe!" "Begorrah, it's a bad look-out!" said the mate, "a bad look-out, anyway!"
But he beat down my guard as easily as if my arms really had been made of pipeclay, and then I felt a stinging sensation through one of these and my left side, just as if I had run foul of a jelly-fish when swimming off the `Hot Walls, as I have done sometimes when bathing. "Begorrah, the thafe's stabbed ye!" exclaimed Mick, putting his arms round me as I fell back.
Begorrah, it's wishin' I am, I stood in ye'r shoes, alannah, an' I wouldn't care for to call the Pope me ouncle, God bless him!"
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