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They had more gin'rals thin ye cud find in a Raypublican West Town convintion, an' ivry private was at laste a colonel. They made me uncle Mike a brigadier gin'ral. 'That 'll do f'r a time, says he; 'but, whin th' fun begins, I'll pull Dorney off his horse, an' be a major gin'ral, he says. An' he'd 've done it, too, on'y they was no fightin'.
"Will ye promise not to mention me name?" "How can I mention it when I don't know it?" "That's thrue, that's thrue. Now me mind's aisy on that pint, for ye must know that Boss Arnot's in'ards are made o' cast-iron, and he'd have no marcy on a feller. You'll surely give me a dollar, at laste." "Yes, if your story is worth printing, and I give you just three minutes in which to tell it."
Garry O'Neil saw this, and pooh-poohed the idea of the colonel remaining below. "Faith, there ain't the laste bit of good, sor, in yer stoppin' down here at all, at all," said he in his brisk, energetic way. "The poor chap won't be afther stirrin' ag'in for the next two hours or more; an' if he does, bedad, he won't ricognise ye, or any one ilse for that matther!" "But, sir doctor " "Houly Moses!
At laste, the Ridskins hold to that notion." I was, I confess, very thankful that we had not been compelled to eat the creatures; though I did not know what hunger might have induced me to do. As we paddled on, Uncle Mark asked Lily and Dora to sing. They were not girls to offer excuses, and declare that they were out of voice. "What shall it be?" said Lily.
"We don't need so many stools aanyway," Jamie said. "I'll get a hatchet an' we'll haave a fire in no time." "T' be freezin' t' death wi a bogman goin' t' waste is unchristian, t' say th' laste," Billy ventured. "Every time we get to th' end of th' tether God appears!" Anna said reassuringly, as she pinned her shawl closer around her neck.
They say only that Rousin Redhead swore like a man you'd 'a' got a touch of the Shaggy Shoe." "To the divil wid it all now, Ned; let us have no more about it; I don't for my own part like to think of it. Have you any notion of what we're called upon for to night?" "Divil the laste; but I believe, Dandy, that Bartle's not the white-headed boy wid you no more nor wid some more of us."
Malowe this laste yere discovered the sea on the back side of Hochelaga. Moreover, the relation of David Ingram confirmeth the same; for, as he avowcheth and hath put it downe in writinge, he traveled twoo daies in the sighte of the North Sea.
"There is," said Jimmy. "At laste in the fore siction. 'Appe' is Frinch, and manes atin'. 'Tite' is Irish, and manes drinkin'. Appetite manes atin' and drinkin' togither. 'Tite' manes drinkin' without atin', see?" "I was just goin' to mintion it meself," said Mary, "it's where you come in strong.
"'Jist ten and a half; but the half-yard was for the tucks. "'Ay, faix! and brave full tucks she left in it; ten would do me, Rose? "'Ten! no, nor ten and a half; you're a size bigger nor me at the laste, Peggy; but you'd be asy fitted, you're so well made.
"Whin did ye ate last?" "Well, it must 'a' been some after noon yestaday." The man went to a closet and took down a dinner-pail. "I've a bit left o' me last-night's dinner," said he; "an' av ye're the laste bit hungry ye'll not be makin' me carry it home with me." He had spread a newspaper on the table, and had laid out the pieces of food upon it.
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