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Slavin heard him. "Ay!" he flung back grimly. "An' they will shtand on th' dhrop yet thim same feet!" The tracks returning in the direction of the coulee presented a vast contrast to the approaching imprints. Where the latter denoted an even, steady stride, the former ran in queer, irregular fashion sometimes bunched together, and at others with wide spaces between.
Townsend, who firmly believed that no good could come out of Nazareth, and that even abstinence from whisky must be bad if accompanied by anything in the shape of a Roman Catholic ceremony. "I do mean to say, ma'am, that I never touched a dhrop of anything sthronger than wather, barring tay, since the time I got the pledge from the blessed apostle."
Now keep yourself aisy, avourneen, and tell me where the whiskey an' anything else that may be a wantin' is, till I give these crathurs of sarvints a dhrop of something to comfort thim." At this time, however, Mrs.
He took off his shako and ran his hand through his mop of red hair. "'Tis aither th' luck of th' Irish, me lad, or of th' Scotch. Oi don't ken which Oi'm haff each but mostly 'tis th' virtoo av me bonny red hair." "Why?" "Because, leastways, in th' Thomahlia, there's always a dhrop av royalty in th' red-headed. Me bonnie top-knot has made me a fortune.
"Of all the lazy bastes," he exclaimed, giving one of the horses a tremendous cut over the flank that startled it into temporary life, "I iver did see but, och! what's the use there's niver a dhrop o' wather in this wilderness. We may as well lie down an' die at wance." "Hush, Larry," said Will Osten, "don't talk lightly of dying." "Lightly is it?
'Come now, jump up, old fellow, and make your beast step out. I don't want to pass the night here. 'You wouldn't have a dhrop of whisky with your honour? 'Of course not. 'Nor even brandy? 'No, not even brandy. 'Musha, I'm thinking you must be English, muttered he, half sulkily. 'And if I were, is there any great harm in that? 'By coorse not; how could ye help it?
"I've poured every dhrop of wine in the ice, as you towld me, sir. If you put your hand down into it, you'll feel it." A wild roar of laughter uprose from the listening guests. Happily they were now too merry to be upset by the mishap, and it was generally voted that the joke was worth twice as much as the wine.
Maybe you want it as much as I do; wherein I've the patthern of a good big-coat upon me, so thick, your sowl, that if it was rainin' bullocks, a dhrop wouldn't get undher the nap of it." He gave me a calm, but keen glance as I spoke.
"That chap in the red sash?" "Aye, I kilt him as de'd as mutton jist now by the dor av me cabin in the deck-house, where, would ye belaive me, sorr, the thaife wor drainin' the last dhrop av grog out av me rhum bottle!"
A brave gossoon in th' Sivinth Artill'ry did partic'larly effective wurruk, hur-rlin' a plate iv scrambled eggs acrost th' sthreet without spillin' a dhrop, an' is now thrainin' a pie like mother used to make on th' first windy iv th' sicond flure. It is reported that th' minister iv war at four o'clock to-morrow mornin' will dhrop a bundle iv copies iv Jools' paper through th' chimbley.
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