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Immediately a shot rang out and Craigin fell to the snow, the smoking rifle dropping from his hand. "Begob, I niver played baseball," cried Tommy, rushing in and seizing the rifle, "but many's the time I've had the divarsion in the streets av Dublin of bringin' down the polismen wid a brick." A heavy horseshoe, heaved with sure aim, had saved the doctor's life.
He was, indeed, two much up to sport and divarsion, and never knew his own mind for a week. It was against him that he never stayed long in one place; for when he got a house of his own afterwards, he had no one that cared anything in particular about him.
'And do you really mean to say, Sir, he promised you a fee of five eh? said Toole, who could not restrain his somewhat angry curiosity. 'Five hundred guineas ha, ha, ha! be gannies, Sir, there's a power of divarsion in that. ''Tis a munificent fee, and prompted by a fine public spirit. We are all his debtors for it! and to you, Sir, too. He's an early man, Sir, I'm told.
Sure, you wouldn't be your father's son, and not join divarsion when there was any going on." The poor fellow's eyes brightened up, his look gladdened, and before he reached the foot of the stairs, I heard his loud cheer of delight that once more we were off to the wars. The packet sailed for Liverpool the next morning.
Doherty made no remark as she twisted a dripping apron into a sausage-shaped roll to wring the water out. "How much was it you were sayin' you'd have in the week, Paddy, just to put in your pocket for your divarsion like?" inquired Mick, with a convenient lapse of memory.
"At any rate, as when the march begins we shall go on first as scouts, it may be that I shall send in news which will turn out a British army again." "I will forgive you if you do, for it is likely that we should have some divarsion after turning out, instead of marching out and back again like a regiment of omadhouns."
"There she goes," said Mr Button; "an' me old fiddle an' all. Don't be frightened, childer; it's only a gun they're firin' for divarsion. Now we'll all halloo togither are yiz ready?" "Ay, ay," said Dick, who was a picker-up of sea terms. "Halloo!" yelled Pat. "Halloo! Halloo!" piped Dick and Emmeline. A faint reply came, but from where, it was difficult to say.
Every one here wondhers at the change that's come over me I that was so light and airy, and so fond of every divarsion that was to be had, am now as grave as a parson; but indeed no wondher, for ever since that awful night at the Grey Stone since both nights indeed I'm not the same man, an' feel as if there was a weight come over me that nothing will remove, unless we trace the murdher, an' I hardly know what to say about it, now that my aunt isn't forthcommin'"
"Be dhe husth,* hould your tongue, Misther Morrow," said he; "Biddy avour-neen," he continued, addressing Biddy and Bessy, "and Bessy, alannah, just take a friend's advice, and never mind going to wakes; to be sure there's plenty of fun and divarsion at sich places, but healths apiece!" putting the pint to his lips "and that's all I say about it."
"'I can endure, sez I; ould Mother Sheehy bein' no divarsion av mine, nor her daughter too. Judy fetched the tea things an' put thim on the table, leanin' over me very close to get thim square. I dhrew back, thinkin' av Dinah. "'Is ut afraid you are av a girl alone? sez Judy. "'No, sez I. 'Why should I be? "'That rests wid the girl, sez Judy, dhrawin' her chair next to mine.
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