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Wanst, whin I was away, th' beautiful Swede slave that scrubs out me place iv business broke into th' palachal boodoor an' in thryin' to set straight th' ile paintin' iv th' Chicago fire burnin' Ilivator B, broke a piece off a frame that cost me two dollars iv good money. If they knew that th' on'y furniture in me room was a cane-bottomed chair an' a thrunk an' that there was nawthin' on th' flure but oilcloth an' me clothes, an' that 'tis so long since me bed was made up that it's now a life-size plaster cast iv me, I'd be dhragged to th' altar at th' end iv a chain.
Shure, Gladstone never invints anythin' at all, but only waits till pressure is put on him. Shure, iverythin' has to be dhragged out iv him, an' if he settles the land question, divil thank him, 'tis because he knows he's bate out an' out, an' has to do it, whether he will or no. An' now he comes bowin' an' scrapin' an' condiscindin' to relave us whin we kicked it out o' his skin.
Dinah Shadd ran out wid water, an' Judy dhragged the ould woman into the veranda till she sat up. "'I'm old an' forlore, she sez, thremblin' an' cryin', 'and 'tis like I say a dale more than I mane. "'When you're able to walk, go, says ould Mother Shadd. 'This house has no place for the likes av you that have cursed my daughter. "'Eyah! said the ould woman.
Afther we had dhragged ut down from Dearsley's through that cruel scrub that near broke Orth'ris's heart, we set ut in the ravine for a night; an' a thief av a porcupine an' a civet-cat av a jackal roosted in ut, as well we knew in the mornin'. I put ut to you, sorr, is an elegint palanquin, fit for the princess, the natural abidin' place av all the vermin in cantonmints?
Dinah Shadd ran out wid water, an' Judy dhragged the ould woman into the verandah till she sat up. "I'm old an' forlore," she sez, thremblin' an' cryin', "and 'tis like I say a dale more than I mane." "When you're able to walk, go," says ould Mother Shadd. "This house has no place for the likes av you that have cursed my daughter." "Eyah!" said the ould woman.
"Yez luk as if yez had been hung up an' dhragged tu th' pair av yez," he remarked casually. Remembrance smote the two culprits. They exchanged guilty glances and swallowed the home-thrust in silence. Slavin clucked to his team. "Walk-march, thin!" said he. Wheeling sharply about, they started down the trail again, the cutter following in their wake.
I've been a rayspictable saloon-keeper f'r forty years in this ward, an' I'll not have th' name dhragged into pollytics." "Iv coorse, I don't blame Cousin George. I'm with him f'r annything else in th' gift iv th' people, fr'm a lovin'-cup to a house an' lot. He don't mean annything be it. Did ye iver see a sailor thryin' to ride a horse? 'Tis a comical sight.
'Hard words break no bones, an' Dinah Shadd 'll keep the love av her husband till my bones are green corn, Judy darlin', I misremember what I came here for. Can you lend us the bottom av a taycup av tay, Mrs. Shadd? "But Judy dhragged her off cryin' as tho' her heart wud break. An' Dinah Shadd an' I, in ten minutes we had forgot ut all." "Then why do you remember it now?" said I.
"They shan't part us they shan't tear us asunder! No, no, Owen, I will go wid you to preson! Oh, is id come to this wid us? You to be dhragged from home, accused of murdher and I I Father of marcies, keep me in my sinses I'm goin' mad wild, wild mad!"
Du fwhat we cud, we cud not make some av th' silly fules kape back clear av th' danger-zone wimmin an' all, bedad! "By and by, a section av the wall tumbles an' quite a bunch av people got badly hurt Nobby amongst thim. We dhragged thim out as quick as we cud an' laid them forninst th' wall av a buildin' near-by awaithin' some stretcher-bearers.
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