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We have our bit of turf, and our bit of sticks, and our bit to eat, and we have our health. Glory be to His Holy Name, not a one of the childer was ever a day ill, except one boy was hurted off a cart, and he never overed it. It's small right we have to complain at all. She died the following winter, and her son went to New York.
"Why, jest this a-way," replied the trapper, almost irritating me with the prolixity of his style. "'Ee see them Injuns on t'other side o' the gulley?" "Yes, yes," hastily replied Seguin. "Wal; 'ee see these hyur?" and the speaker pointed to our captives. "Yes, yes!" "Wal; 'ee see them over yander, though thur hides be a coppery colour, has feelin's for thur childer like white Christyuns.
"I give him a regular lifter under the gob, same as I give Jabez, Sunday. But where's the sense of a lone woman wandering about dark roads of a night wi' a pack of childer?... Them childer 'ud ha' slept through th' battle o' Trafalgar," he added. Mrs Clowes wept. "Well may you say it!" she murmured. "And it's not the first time as I've been set on!"
"And shut the dure afther ye, and make yersilves scarce till tea-time, like good childer, do." Mrs. Handsomebody was borne away by Mary Ellen and Mrs. Coe, the latter still muttering "terbaccer smoke dahn 'er froat." We restored Coppertoes to his wicker cage, and wrapping it in an antimacassar, hid it beneath the piano.
Their clamour was caught by the fierce north wind, which had begun to sweep the hill, and was borne along till it reached the ears of a woman who was sitting sewing in a cottage some fifty yards further up the lane. She stepped to her door, opened it and listened. "It's at Bessie's," she said; "whativer's wrong wi' the childer?" By this time Arthur had begun to run towards her.
It took some minutes to get the company settled, owing to the reluctance of the Russian to seat himself while the lady was standing, and the equal reluctance of Mrs. Fitzpatrick to take her seat until she had comfortably settled her guest. "I come to you, Mrs. Vichpatrick, on behalf of my children." "An' fine childer they are, barrin' the lad is a bit av a limb betimes."
So he fell into a sort of sham disorder, which was easy done, as he kept his bed, and no one to see him; and I got my shister, who was an old woman very handy about the sick, and very skilful, to come up to the Lodge to nurse him; and we gave out, she knowing no better, that he was just at his latter end, and it answered beyond anything; and there was a great throng of people, men, women, and childer, and there being only two rooms at the Lodge, except what was locked up full of Jason's furniture and things, the house was soon as full and fuller than it could hold, and the heat, and smoke, and noise wonderful great; and standing amongst them that were near the bed, but not thinking at all of the dead, I was startled by the sound of my master's voice from under the greatcoats that had been thrown all at top, and I went close up, no one noticing.
"Ah! she was a hawful voman, that 'ere!" said Dummie, shaking his head. "But howsomever, the hurchin fell into good 'ands; for I be's sure you 'as been a better mother to 'un than the raal 'un!" "I was always a fool about childer," rejoined Mrs. Lobkins; "and I thinks as how little Paul was sent to be a comfort to my latter end! Fill the glass, Dummie."
God bless them! the fine childer they are too but where in the world would you find a corner for Misther and Mrs. Clancy?" "Troth, I'll find a corner aisy enough; and it wouldn't do a ha'porth of harm to the two little fellows if they were to sleep for a few nights undher the turf stack outside.
"And what have you found out concerning him?" "Good Heavens! can this be true?" "True it is, and too true, dear." "But how did you find all this out, Ellinor?" "It was none of I found it, nor ever could any such things have come into my head but it pleased God to make the discovery of all by one of the childer my own grandson the boy you gave the gun to, long and long ago, to shoot them rabbits.
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