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"No," said he, positively; "they're at the gate." "What they doin' there?" "Waitin'." We were now come to the crest of a hill; and the sea was spread before us breaking angrily under the low, black sky. "What's they waitin' for?" I asked. "Davy, lad," he answered, impressively, "they're waitin' for them they bore. That's what they're waitin' for." "For their sons?"
All through the summer day he walked, his Romany blood singing in his veins at the feel of the turf beneath his feet, and evening found him strolling contentedly through the village to his billet. Suddenly a sentry challenged: "'Alt! who goes there?" "Downshires," came the reply. "Well, what the 'ell are you doin' of 'ere?" "I be going back to my regiment." "Well, your regiment's in the trenches.
'I say, guv'ner, she said, 'there'll be some of the coves from dahn our street, and they'll see us. 'Na, there won't be nobody there, don't yer 'ave no fear. 'I don't like ter go in for fear of it. 'Well, we ain't doin' no 'arm if they does see us, an' we can go into the private bar, an' you bet your boots there won't be no one there. She yielded, and they went in.
"Don't ye set foot on my land!" he repeated. "Ye ain't wuth it. Do you know what this land is? It belonged to a man that settled in a place that knows enough to celebrate its foundin', but don't know enough to prize what's fell to it. Do you know what I was doin' of, when I tolled that bell? I'll tell ye. I tolled a hunderd an' ten strokes.
Her handsome kindly face and her big shapely hands were still moist and glowing from soap and warm water, and the shining rings of black hair at her temples were moist, too. "This is all my doin', Dad," said she, comfortably, as she and her flock entered the dining-room. "Put the soup on, Alma.
Away wid ye all, ye spalpeens! or by the powers, it's a-pizening the howl batch of ye I'll be doin' the next toime ye comes to me for pill or powdher!" The men clustering round him spread out, moving nearer to me; and they laughed at his comical threat which sounded all the more humorous from the Irishman's racy brogue, which became all the more prominent when Garry was at all excited.
At the time I was President of the West Texas Cattle Growers' Association, organized chiefly to deal with marauding rustlers. "Howd'y, Ed," Jim began, "I've jumped the Mescalero Reservation, headed north. Nothin' doin' down here now.
"Tell me one thing that he ever did that struck you as being preëminently good." "Well, now, I can't say as I kin, exactly, offhand," he replied, "there bein' so many of them from time to time. He was always doin' things one way and another. He give to everybody around here that asked him, and to a good many that didn't.
At the end of a dreadful day she had turned with some contempt from the fine lady on the bed, who could not give birth to her child, and said simply, as if with the saying she washed her hands of the whole matter: "She ain't doin' right. I reckon somethin' is wrong." William had ridden forth in the driving storm of snow and ice for the doctor, who lived ten miles distant across the mountain.
It seems as if all Japan wanted wuz to find out the best way of doin' things, and then she goes right ahead and duz 'em. Robert Strong wuz talking about what the word Japan meant, the Sunrise Land. And he said some real pretty things about it and so did Dorothy. They wuz dretful took with the country.
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