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"You're sure the oysters are all good, Andy?" "Sartin, ma'am." "Because the last oysters you know " "Oh, yis, ma'am were bad, ma'am bekase they had their mouths all open. I remember, ma'am; but when I'm towld a thing once, I never forget it again; and you towld me when they opened their mouths once they were no good. So you see, ma'am, I'll never bring up bad oysthers again, ma'am."
"Mister," said he, as he approached the detective, "ef ye go to the park, you won't find the man yer arter, that's a dead sure thing." "What do you mean?" asked Manning with some surprise. "I means as how the boss of the saloon yonder has lied to ye, that's all." "What makes you think so?" "Bekase I passed the man ye wor askin' about three days ago, on the road to Helena."
"Not a man! An' I mind th' time in Oireland whin th' little people made vanish a whole village like this, jist bekase ould Mike Maguire uprooted a bed of shamrocks." "That's enough of your superstitions, Tim," warned Job Titus. "If some of the other Indians hear you go on this way they'll desert as they did once before." "Did they do that?" asked Tom.
"And if he's went off it is bekase some traitor or 'nother in our company told him he'd better," soliloquized Beardsley, when he saw the lights shining from the windows of the upper rooms. "Julius, come here. I want to ask you something." The black boy had by this time recovered his breath and strength enough to sit up.
"He lost his life, then," said Harry, partially comprehending, "in some of the troubles around here?" "He wuz killed, bekase he wouldn't help brek down what hit hed cost so much ter build up. He wuz killed, bekase he thot a pore man's life wuth mo'en a rich man's nigger.
"Well, with that, my heart began to grow light; and when I seen my life was safe, I began to grow twice hungrier nor ever; so says I, 'Captain jewel, I wish we had a gridiron. "'Why, then, says he, 'thunder an' turf, says he, 'what puts a gridiron into your head? "'Bekase I'm starvin' with the hunger, says I.
"Yes, sure, sir the alther-piece, that was althered for to fit to the place, for it was too big when it came down from Dublin, so they cut off the sides where the sojers was, bekase it stopt out the windows, and wouldn't lave a bit o' light for his riverence to read mass; and sure the sojers were no loss out o' the alther-piece, and was hung up afther in the vesthery, and serve them right, the blackguards.
But see, Sally, by thim five crasses it's not bekase your father's in I'm marryin' you at all. Sure I'm in love wid you, acushla! Divil a lie in it. Now, yes or no?" "Well throth to be sure the sorra one, Phelim, but you have quare ways wid you. Now are you downright in airnest?" "Be the stool I'm sittin' on!" "Well, in the name o' Goodness, I'll go to my father, an' let him know it.
I'd like to be near yourself; bekase, too, if anything happens to you, the Lord be betune us and harm," here he crossed himself piously, "sure, I'd like to be able to tell the master how you died; and sure, there's Mr. Considine God pardon him! He'll be beating my brains out av I couldn't explain it all."
Orter heard him whistle goin' home, an' he's tryin' all them things he learned, on our place, an' you can see it looks a heap better a'ready, an' now he's talkin' about buildin' in the spring. I knowed he had money, but he never mentioned buildin' before, an' I always thought it was bekase he 'sposed likely we'd have to move on, some time.
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