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On the captain asking why we had been fired at, he was told that the musket had been discharged by one of the sentries of course, an Irishman! who had mistaken us for a band of Red Indians. "I am glad my worthy countryman was not a better shot," said my father, "or one of the best officers in the service would have been lost to his country."
So much so, indeed, that Mr Stokes, despite his own hearty sympathy with the like cause, looked at the infuriated Irishman in great trepidation, for his face was flushed, and his hair seemed actually to stand on end, while his words tumbled out of his mouth pell-mell, jostling each other in their eagerness to find utterance.
The eyes of engineers were on it: it was placed, as an Irishman would say, "very convanient" for railway purposes and after a few years had rolled away, it became the great workshop of the Grand Junction Line, and the point where the main line to Birmingham received its tributaries from the north and west.
Jackson, who seemed to know every thing about all parts of the world, used to tell Jack in reproach, that he was an Irish Cockney. By which I understood, that he was an Irishman born, but had graduated in London, somewhere about Radcliffe Highway; but he had no sort of brogue that I could hear.
Philip stood with his hand upon the chair-back where she had wept; pale and silent, the picture of abandonment and sorrow. Ned Comes Back, with an Interesting Tale of a Fortunate Irishman. Before any of us knew what to say, a soft tread in the library announced the approach of Mr. Cornelius.
While the position of the Irishman was anything but pleasant, and with the horse on a jump he was required to take the utmost care to maintain his seat, he decided to try his gun once more. This proved harder than he supposed. He could make no use of the saddle in which young Starr sat, and when he sought to turn he would have fallen, had he not kept one arm about the waist of his friend.
In the eloquent letter of the O'Neil to Pope John XXII. written about the year 1318 we read, that no man of Irish origin could sue in an English court; that no Irishman, within the marches, could make a legal will; that his property was appropriated by his English neighbours; and that the murder of an Irishman was not even a felony punishable by fine.
Now what I want you to do is this, to take me over to the coast of England, instead of to yonder French brig." The man's astonishment was very great; but he seemed to enter into the motives of his companion with all the quick perception of an Irishman.
She's a glory to the old country. And better you than another, I'd say, since it wasn't an Irishman to have her: but what induced the dear lady to take him, is the question we 're all of us asking! And it's mournful to think that somehow you contrive to get the pick of us in the girls! If ever we 're united, 'twill be by a trick of circumvention of that sort, pretty sure.
I was as pleased to see him, as may readily be believed, as the genial Irishman was to see me, I was sure, even without his telling me so. "Well," said I, after we had pretty nigh wrung each other's hands off in friendly greeting, "and how are you all getting on aboard the dear old barquey? I want to hear about everybody."
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