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"Do you like it?" she asked, turning to me and laying a slight stress on "you." "I told you I admired pretty things, and you know, Miss Blanche, I am a bit of a poet." She smiled: "Ah yes; but do you really admire this?" "Of course I do think it dem foine." She laughed outright a laugh so gay that I joined her, though I could not tell why.
She's lookin' foine in her Sunday suit. Shrouds is gone out, Mem, they say." She went tipping over the floor to something white that lay on a board, a candle at the head, and drew off the sheet. A girl of fifteen, almost a child, lay underneath, dead, her lithe, delicate figure decked out in a barred plaid skirt, and stained, faded velvet bodice, her neck and arms bare.
"You seems to have got on yer Sunday trousers?" observed the policeman. "Wall, there an't no sin in that," replied the supposed labourer, somewhat sharply. "Certainly not," said the policeman. "It's a fine night, an't it?" "It is a foine night," responded the labourer, putting his head out of the window.
'I'm no so sure about that, little lassie; I've seen scores brought into this churchyard and placed in my graves, but there are toimes when I think o' seeing mysel' let down into a strange grave, and one not cut half so foine as mine, for I'm up to my trade, and none could do it better, and I'm thinkin' if that day will wait till I'm ready for it; well 'twill be a good way off yet!
She paused a moment in reflection. "Them geese now is foine. Do you think, Pat, the Gineral and Mrs. Brady would enjoy eatin' wan of 'em when it's a bit cooler? You knows what they loikes by this time." "I think they would, mother." "Then it's the best of the lot they shall have. Bad luck to them that's always a-takin' and niver wantin' to be givin' back."
"He had wurrked," he said, "for twinty gintlemin, most av thim foine men, but the looten'nt was the best av all." Dennis had his wife and brood in a little shanty near the sand lots, and could not follow Loring to the East.
"'Tis a foine va-acation ye're havin' playin' nurse fer a pinched toe, an' me tearin' out th' bone fer to git out th' logs on salt-horse an' dough-gods 't w'd sink a battle-ship. 'Tis a lucky divil ye ar-re altogither," railed Fallon good-naturedly as he returned from supper and found Bill engaged in the task of swashing arnica on his bruised foot. "Oh, I don't know.
"All moighty foine, if thrue," observed Colonel O'Toole, for he was the officer who had just arrived, having been sent for to act as interpreter. "It's true, sir, every word of it," said Bill. "Well! we shall see, afther you repeat it all over again to the gineral, and moind you thin don't made any changes," said the colonel. Bill wisely did not reply.
You're quite young to be permoted that high," went on his mother, seeing a discontented expression on the little fellow's face. "Only for the big b'ys gettin' ahead so fast, you wouldn't have no chance at all, and folks wouldn't think you much bigger than Barney there, so they wouldn't. B'ys of nine that gets any sort of permotion is doin' foine, let me tell you.
It just seems as if I couldn't wait any longer to know what my birthday surprise is going to be. Do you know, Eliza?" "Faix, an' I do, Miss Midge, an' it's a foine gift yer uncle has for ye!" "Don't tell me, Eliza, because Uncle Steve said I mustn't ask questions about it; but do you think I'll like it?" "'Like it, is it? 'Deed an' you will thin! Ye'll go crazy as a loonytic wid joy and delight!
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