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That brother of yours, Fred, is not half a bad old chap; and I saw a nice, curly-headed little gossoon coming in just now with his books under his arm. What's his name?" "Oh, you mean Philip. Yes, he's the youngest; he's well enough if you don't spoil him, Kitty." "I won't spoil him, bless his heart," said Kitty; "but of course I'll make friends with him. I couldn't live without boys.
"Bless me!" cried Murphy, "how drunk you must have been to mistake your stocking for an extinguisher!" "Drunk, sir I wasn't drunk!" "It looks very like it," said Murphy, who did not wait for an answer, but bustled off to another party who was wringing out his inexpressibles at the door of his bed-room, and swearing at the gossoon that he must have his boots.
When he got near the village he picked up a little boy to show him the short cut across the fields to the house here; and as his lordship was a 'sharp man and a shrewd, he kept his eye on every thing as he went along, remarking this, and noting down that. "'Are ye regular in yer duties, my son? said he to the gossoon.
Whoever comes nearer, night or day, than this stone," and he tapped it with the end of his cane, "will never see his home again, for we'll keep him till the day of judgment; goodnight, little gossoon and away with you."
There was but one boy in evidence, and the versatile Benella offered to caddie for them, leaving the more experienced gossoon to Francesca and me. The Irish caddie does not, on the whole, perhaps manifest so keen an interest in the fine points of the game as his Scottish brother.
'Is that Mr. Soolivan? says the by. says he, as soon as he saw him a good bit aff. 'To be sure it is, ye spalpeen, you, says Jim, roarin' out; 'what do you want wid me this time a-day? says he. 'Don't you know me? says the gossoon, 'it's Mick Hanlon that's in it, says he.
"Of course you will, missie; and poverty don't matter a mite." "Perhaps it doesn't," said Sibyl. "Compared to a light heart, it don't matter a gossoon, as they say in Ireland," remarked the farmer. Sibyl felt suddenly uplifted. "I'll see you through, missie," he added as they came up to the wide front entrance.
In five minutes he came back with the dog-cart and the gray mare. His riverince got up, with the aid of a chair, the little gossoon climbed up behind, and the gravel flew as the gray mare started. They wint a matter of ten rods and then I saw the lamps again. They had turned, and they stopped before the porch the gray mare on her haunches.
'Twas I wrote it, and the gossoon that threw it to your honour was a cousin of my own that I sent, that nobody, nor yourself even, might not know him: and the way I got the information I never can tell till I die, and then only to the priest, becaase I swore I would not never. But don't go for to think it was by being a rubble any way; no man can, I thank my God, charge me with indifferency.
The last time I could stand it no longer, although it was still earlier than the hour I had said, so I got up and dressed myself in one of my new suits. "And here, Paddy," said I, "you will wear the costume I had on yesterday." "I couldn't think of it," said Paddy, drawing back from the grandeur. "You are not to think, you impudent gossoon, but to do as I tell you.
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