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"Aye, sorr," said Mr McCarthy, joining in the conversation, "and didn't it droive us too! Begorrah, there was some times that the wind tuck the ship clane out of the wather and carried us along in the air like one of them flying-fish you'll say when we gits down to the line!" "It was fortunate it was in our favour," observed the captain reflectively.
"Get out of here! you are not worth being angry with." "Begorrah, it's your poor fri'nd in there!" said Garry O'Neil to the colonel. "What's the poor crayture parleyvooing about, instid of slaypin' loike a Christian whin he's got the chance? Sure, I'll have to stop his jaundering there, or he'll niver git betther!"
Is that you, my old friend?" called out the overjoyed lad, springing forward, throwing his arms about him, and breaking in most effectually upon his meditations. The Irishman was mystified for a moment, but he recognized the voice, reached down, and placed his arms in turn about the lad. "Begorrah, if this ain't the greatest surprise of me life, as Mr.
"'Begorrah! cried O'Farroll, 'Hartnoll was after the murderer when he was struck, and shure I'll be after him the same way myself. And before anyone could prevent him O'Farroll was up the chimney. Up, up, up, until he found himself going down, down, down; and then bedad he stepped right out on to the floor of Belton's room.
He then threw up his arms and dropped down as if he had been shot, Corporal Macan just catching him in time, crying out in a loud tone as he fell, louder indeed than he had yet spoken, as if giving a peremptory order "Fonde el ancla!" "Begorrah, I can't say to his ankles!" said the Irishman, not understanding of course what he said, and mistaking the sound of the words.
"Begorrah, Tom," he said after a pause, during which his eyes were apparently fixed on the celebrated `Peak' for which Teneriffe is better known in the present day than on account of its canaries; for it is over four hundred years since these little songsters were first discovered by the Spaniards and imported into Europe, so that any novelty that might have been attached to them has long since disappeared, "Oi'll git some ov the purty craychurs fur yer sisther if we're 'lowed ashore afore we lave."
"Begorrah!" he rejoined with his usual grin, "it ain't mooch profit Oi'll git oot ov it, me darlint, or yersilf ayther, fur thet matther aboot ez mooch, faith, ez Pat O'Connor got whin he shaved his pig!"
"Begorrah, it's a cabbage, all the worruld over!" exclaimed the first mate, who had accompanied Mr Meldrum in his quest. "Sure you'd hardly know the hid ov the baste, if it was cut off, from one grown in Connemara!" "Not quite so strong a resemblance, perhaps," replied Mr Meldrum, smiling.
"Begorrah, it's moighty sorry I am to hear that, now!" said he in a more serious tone. "Sure, and he was a foine, h'ilthy man entirely, barrin' that accident, bad cess to it! He moight have lived till a hundred, an' then aunly died of auld age; for he'd the constitution of an illiphent. Faith, I never saw such a chist and thorax on a chap in me loife before!" "Poor fellow!" observed the skipper.
He paused and looked about him. "Begorrah, but no laddy is here. Can it be that he has strayed off, and started to Chiny so as to head me off? I say! Fred, me laddy, have ye " "Sh! sh!" And as the hurried aspirate was uttered, the boy came running silently out of the darkness, with his hand raised in a warning way. "What is it?" asked Mickey, in amazement; "have ye found another dead man?"
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