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"I was always good at that an' it's so hot here that I took a sudden fancy to spaik to the fishes, but the dirty spalpeens are too quick for me. I do belaive they're comin' back! Look there at that wan six pound av he's an ounce."
"Howld yer tongues, both o' ye!" cried Flynn; "sure the loss o' yer helmets is beginning to tell on yer heads already. What can the line be I see in the distance over there? I do belaive it's another o' thim broad rivers that seem to cut up this land all into stripes."
Wel, we wint an turned up the hole kuntry after that, an' got heeps o goold. yool niver belaive it there was nugits o' all sises from a pay to a pitaity.
We wint coughin' and sneezin' an' rubbin' our eyes down into a cellar, where the lads of another ingin was at work before us wi' the hand-pumps, an', would ye belaive it? but the walls o' that cellar was lined wi' coffins! True for ye, there they was, all sizes, as thick as they could stand.
Pr'a'ps we'll all escape and return to old England together," said one of his comrades. "Arrah! if I did git into wan o' the sandy graves ye spake of," remarked Flynn, "I do belaive I'd rise out of it just for the pleasure o' contradictin' you, Sutherland." "H'm! nae doot. Contradictiousness whiles maks fowk lively that wad be dull an' deed eneuch withoot it.
As, however, it was all he could do to keep pace with the brute, he found either alternative impossible. "Ochone! what'll I do wid ye?" cried the perplexed man, in despair. The bear, as if in reply, glanced aside at him and grinned horribly. "I do belaive it's laughin' again at me! Larry forgot to do his steed the justice to add that it carried fourteen stone weight on its back.
"No, it's not that either," said the widow. "Ah, then, it can't be because I'm poor," persisted O'Rook, "for with this good business you don't want money, an' I'm great at cookin', besides havin' the willin' hands that can turn to a'most anything. If ye'd seen me diggin' for goold, bad luck to it, ye'd belaive what I tell ye.
She's a parson's daughter, too, an' lives on a coral island in the Pacific Ocean, where the people is cannibals, no doubt, as I've good raison to know, for they ait up a lot o' me shipmates, and it was by good luck they didn't ait up myself and Master Will too though I do belaive they'd have found me so tough that I'd have blunted their teeth an' soured on their stummicks, bad luck to them.
"I do belaive we've gone an' lost ourselves again," said Larry. "I am afraid you are right," replied Will, with a half smile; "come, try to climb to the top of yonder tree on the eminence; perhaps you may be able to see from it how the land lies." Larry went off at once, but on coming down said it was so dark that he could see nothing but dense forest everywhere.
'Truth enough, says I; 'you've lived a life of carnal freedom, but now is the appointed time. Say, "Lord, I belaive; help thou my unbelaife." 'Too late, Mr. Cregeen, too late, says he, and the word was scarce out of his mouth when he was key-cold in a minute, and gone into the night of all flesh that's lost.
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