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We always supposed he was an Irishman, but after he got rich he went abroad for a year or two, and when he came back you would have been amused to see how interested he was in a potato. He asked what it was!
On the part of the Irishman, this feeling is extended to the youthful couple who recline, with clasped hands, along the sternmost seat of the pinnace. As for the Malay, thirst and hunger have also made their marks upon him; but not as with those of Occidental race.
Everybody but me wants to know what kind of a to-morrow God Almighty has made for him. I make my own to-morrows! I don't ask to have my destiny made up for me like a t-t-tailor coat. I make my own destiny. If things d-d-don't come my way, I just pull them! People talk about 'following Providence! I follow Providence as an Irishman follows his wheel-barrow. I shove it! See?
From time to time the shipping clerk who was an Irishman tried to joke with one of them, tapping sharply upon his desk with a pencil as though to compel attention. "They are no good," he said to himself, when in response to his sallies they only smiled vaguely. "Although they get but a dollar and a half a day they are overpaid!"
"It's not a bad idaa," assented the Irishman. "Pick yours out, and then we'll turn the others loose." "Why will you do that?" "What's the use of laving them here? Them spalpeens will find their way out of the cave before long, and then they will strike straight for these animals, and, if they happen to get out pretty soon, they'll make trouble with us. We might as well let 'em walk awhile."
If we hold back, the Irishman rears up and says we are surrendering to the English! Suppose we go ahead and the English surrender to us, what can your Irishmen do then? Or your German? The British Navy is a pretty good sort of dog to have to trot under your wagon. If we are willing to have ten years of thoughtful good manners, I tell you Jellicoe will eat out of your hand. Therefore, cheer up!
Accordingly, the Irishman made what might be termed a flank movement by turning to the right, running rapidly several paces and then diving in among the trees, as though he were plunging into the water for a bath.
"And this makes you have faith in such dreams?" asked Glenn, striving in vain to repress his laughter. "I got something by the dream," said Joe. "I had a first rate oyster-breakfast." "But what has all this to do with the fish?" continued Glenn; "perhaps, instead of the fish, you expect to catch a frog this time. You will still be an Irishman, Joe. Go and try your luck." "St.
"One of Lord Middleton's officers hath done a man to death not half an hour agone; he is an Irishman Captain Hogan by name." "Hogan Hogan?" repeated Crispin, after the manner of one who fumbles in his memory. "Ah, yes an Irishman with a grey head and a hot temper. And he is dead, you say?" "Nay, he has done the killing." "That I can better understand. 'Tis not the first time, I'll be sworn."
The Irishman related his experience in as brief a manner as possible, the scout listening with a great deal of interest, and asking a question or two. "The luck was yer's," he said, when the narrator concluded, "of gettin' on the right track, while I got on the wrong." Mickey scratched his head in his old quizzical way. "The same luck befell the spalpeens and mesilf.
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