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"Now then, Martin," whispered Barney O'Flannagan, who sat at the bow oar, "I'm goin' to swim ashore; jist you slip arter me as quiet as ye can." "But the sharks!" suggested Martin. "Bad luck to them," said Barney as he slipped over the side, "they're welcome to me. I'll take my chance. They'll find me mortial tough, anyhow. Come along, lad, look sharp!"
I wad jist gang doon upo' my k-nees, whaur I stude afore ye, and tell ye a heap o' things 'at maybe by that time ye wad ken weel eneuch a'ready ." "What would you tell me?" Whether she was really angry or not, she had no difficulty in making Malcolm believe she was. She rose from her chair though not until he had ended swept halfway to the door, then turned upon him with a flash.
He found his companions lying where he had left them. Certain unmistakable signs of life among the trees over the grade they had heard, but that was all. Murphy was growling into the loose sand beneath his chin. "Mother o' Mike! Why don't ye rush thim? There's bunches jist over there. Fir-rst thing ye know they'll get away. A good scr-rap going to waste, it is.
But I jist can't be minding, for I see how you can be taking up all my work. There's the Jericho Road waiting for you, Lad." The young man smiled indulgently. "And what do you think I can do there, Father? Unless Mike Cassidy goes to law as usual." "Ah, but is jist you that can. Edward will be finding great opportunities for helping folk and he has not the time now.
Mandy was desperately twisting her white cotton gloves. At this point the nurse, with a final warning to the patient not to talk too much and not to excite himself, left the room. In a moment Mandy's whole manner changed. "Say!" she cried in a hurried voice; "Perkins is left." "Left?" "I couldn't jist stand him after after that night.
Sandy says there's lions down in the river bed, but I bet he jist said that to see if I'd get scared. He can't scare me, though. What kind of a noise does a lion make. Uncle Dune? Listen, do you hear that funny noise ahead?" He drew closer to his uncle. "Is that the kind of a noise a lion makes?" "It will jist be the river you hear, child," said Duncan reassuringly.
Look round, select a good critter, and hold on to the tail, for dear life, and see if you hante a patron, worth havin'. You don't want none yourself, but you might want one some time or another, for them that's a comin' arter you. "When I was a half grow'd lad, the bears came down from Nor-West one year in droves, as a body might say, and our woods near Slickville was jist full of 'em.
O'Dougherty if he heard the fire alarm that night; and, if so, whether the prisoner was in sight at the time?" "Shure, an' I heerd it," answered the O'Dougherty. "It was fur the Seventh District. An' wasn't this gin'leman here at the ind o' me poipe, jist when it begun to bang away?" Overtop cast one triumphant glance at the jury, which was fully reciprocated by the foreman and four others.
"You can easy enough steady him down, but then, the swine, he wants a spell; an' when he gits a spell, you jist got to steady him down agen. Always got some new idear in his head. There!" hastily rooting the horse's side with his spur "he's goin' to laydown, an' make chips o' the saddle.
Finlayson wishes to speak to you," she said. "Ay, ay! I jist want to say that you had the word for me the day. I see it better the noo. A'm mair content that ma mon sud be sleepin' oot yonder." She held Barry's hand while she spoke, her tears falling on it, then kissed it and turned away. "And this," said the minister's wife, "is Mrs.
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