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"It would be of no use to try," I whispered. "Not a bit, lad, they'd run us down directly. Hold up your head, lad; you arn't afraid of a rattlesnake, so you needn't be afraid of these furreners. What are they Injuns?" "Yes," I answered; "Red Indians," though I had never seen one before. "Ah, well, look you, there's nothing to mind they arn't poisonous. I shall ask them what they want.
Used to dig myself, sometimes didn't like it, though hard work, very by and by a lot of d d furreners came here got drunk and made rows used to fire pistols at us when we arrested 'em got hit once, but didn't hurt me much the fellow gave me ten pounds to settle the matter he was a Yankee, I think had a revolver, and used to be desperate when he got drunk thank God, he died one day, and I saw him buried."
"Sure yer honour," Larry said with an innocent look, "when a gentleman like yourself is for ever walking and riding with a purty colleen, it don't need much guessing to suppose that you would be worrying after her, with such creatures as the Northerners and the furreners in her neighbourhood." "And you seriously think you could take a letter across to her, Larry?" "Sure and I could, yer honour.
What with these devil-ships a-flyin' about the skies, and dropping thunderbolts on us from the clouds, and furreners a-comin' up the Thames as I've heard, London ain't 'ealthy enough for me, nor the missus and the kids, and thanks for your kindness, sir, we're movin' to-night, keb an' all. "Oh, my Gawd, there's another! 'Otel Cecil and Savoy this time, if I've got my bearin's right.
Suppose that, after all the property was divided, a fresh shipload of your friends was to land at New York or Boston; would there be a new deal?" "No, sir! by no means!" exclaimed Michael excitedly. "The furreners is counted out!" "But you're a foreigner yourself, Mike." "Am I, then? Bedad, I'm not! I'm a rale American Know Nothing."
I won't say nothing about tramps from London, and furreners coming in search o' work; but you might keep gold and silver jools down here without locking your doors leastwise if Pete Warboys warn't about; but I told you how it would be." "Well, let's go down, David," said Tom, who could not help thinking about the proverb concerning a dog with a bad name. "This shutter must have a proper fastening.
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