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I could then for the first time look out to ascertain what had become of Pat, shouting as I did so, and presently I saw him rushing out of the larger wood towards me. As he caught sight of the dead elk, he threw up his hat, exclaiming, "Hurrah! good luck to you, Masther David! Erin go bragh! We'll not be afther starving at any rate." On seeing him coming I descended from my perch.
"What have you there, Bonner?" he asked, as he reined in. "'Erin go unum, E pluribus bragh, sir, as Derby would have it." "The Celt and the Casekeeper," he added to himself. "Clancy and Case going gunning together as amicably as if they had never squabbled over a sutler's bill." "Queer lot that man Case!" said the commanding officer reflectively.
Smith played the accompaniments for a set of familiar Irish songs "The Harp that once through Tara's Halls," "Erin go Bragh," "Kathleen Mavourneen," "The Wearing of the Green." Dorothy led the choruses, the whole U. S. C., including Dicky, sang their best, and Edward Watkins's tenor rose so pleadingly in "Kathleen Mavourneen" that Mrs. Smith was touched.
The Indians, seeing their advantage, retreated to a short distance, in order to make another fierce charge, the result of which would very probably have been our overthrow, when we heard a loud shout raised in our rear, and presently, with a wild war-cry of "Erin go bragh," a strange figure dashed by us, mounted on a powerful horse, with a target on one arm, and a broadsword flashing in his right hand.
Erin go bragh!" and Nub exclaiming, "We got one big turtle. Come, Massa Shobbrok, come, Massa Lawrie, and drag him up. We get fine food for supper." The mate had brought several pieces of rope, which were fastened round the fins of the turtle, and the poor creature was dragged on its back up to the encampment.
Some stragglers, however, caught sight of me; and another big bull was rushing on to give me a taste of his horns and hoofs, when a loud "Whallop-ahoo-aboo! Erin go bragh!" sounded in my ears.
'Twas just such a hot broth of a day as this has been. And I'd call at him 'Hey, monseer! and he'd look at me black, with the damp showin' through his shirt in places. "'Fat, strong mans, says I to General De Vega, 'is needed in New Orleans. Yes. To carry on the good work. Carrambos! Erin go bragh!" Breakfast in Coralio was at eleven. Therefore the people did not go to market early.
"When apprehended," replied Terry, looking covertly about to see that the reporters were within hearing distance, "their noses were painted green." "Is this true?" asked the Magistrate of the six. "It is, your Honor," they replied. "An', why not!" demanded the Human Judge hotly. "'Tis a glorious color! Erin go bragh! Off'cer, ye've exceeded yer jooty.
"Nothing to go by." Gwen had to be content with it. Is there any strain of music known to man more harrowingly pathetic than the one popularly known as Erin go bragh? Does it not make hearers without a drop of Erse blood in their veins thrill and glow with a patriotism that complete ignorance of the history of Ireland never interferes with in the least?
The old sow that eats her farrow! Strangers in my house, bad manners to them! Ochone! Silk of the kine! STEPHEN: How do I stand you? The hat trick! Where's the third person of the Blessed Trinity? Soggarth Aroon? The reverend Carrion Crow. A ROUGH: Our men retreated. Not a word. A pure misunderstanding. THE CITIZEN: Erin go bragh! PRIVATE COMPTON: Go it, Harry. Do him one in the eye.
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