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As it was about dinner-time, his reverence thought he would stay and have a "morsel" with the old dame; but what was his horror to see served up in good style a pair of splendid roast ducks! "Oh! musha, Mistress O'Brien, what have ye there?" he exclaimed, in well-feigned surprise. "Ducks, yer riverence." "Ducks! roast ducks! and this a fast-day of the holy Church!" "Wisha!
"Musha! it's like a house-full of Turkish corpses," whispered Ted as he surveyed the recumbent figures in white around him. There were some differences between this genuine Turkish bath and our British imitation of it which merit notice. The court or hall in which the friends unrobed served the purpose of a drying-chamber as well as a dressing-room.
The suggestion that his rifle was not a real weapon roused the spirit of the young man. "In the name of the Irish Republic," he said, "I take possession of this house for military purposes." "Musha, but that's fine talk," said Mrs. O'Halloran. "Will nothing do you, only military purposes?" "We shall do no harm to the inmates or the contents of the house," said the young man.
"Musha!" exclaimed Larry, when he tasted the first spoonful, "I feel exactly as if I had ait nothin' at all yit only goin' to begin!" And with that he and his comrades attacked and consumed the soup until their faces shone again with grease and gladness.
"Aslape is it! be me conscience an' ye have just. Oh then, may I never indulge in the same sort o' slumber!" "Why so?" asked Fred in some surprise. "You fell asleep on the ice, sir," answered West, while he busied himself in spreading the tarpaulin and blanket-bags on the floor of the hut, "and you were very near frozen to death." "Frozen, musha!
Me own make," says he, "jooled in wan hole, an' dog-chape at fifteen shillin' " He was rattling away in this style when somebody called out, "To think av a millstone bein' a visible means av support!" And this time the laugh turned against the saint. "St. Piran dear, ye've got to die," says the spokesman. "Musha, musha!" and the saint set up a wail and wrung his hands.
"Musha, lad, but ye're booked for the blue wather now, an' no mistake!" said Barney, looking with an expression of deep sympathy at the poor boy, who sat staring before him quite speechless. "The capting 'll not let ye out o' this ship till ye git to the gould coast, or some sich place.
Och, musha, I forget who I'm spakin' to, or I wouldn't disremimber the ould sayin' that's abroad this many a year: 'who ever knew a M'Carthy of Tubber Derg to tell a lie, break his word, or refuse to help a friend in distress. But, Owen, you're well to do in' the world?" "We're as well, Bridget, or may be betther, nor you ever knew us, except, indeed, afore the ould lase was run out wid us."
Honora sat up in bed, shivering with cold and delight. "Is it awake ye are, darlint, and it but four o'clock the morn!" "What are you doing, Cathy?" "Musha, it's to Mass I'm going, to ask the Mother of God to give ye many happy Christmases the like of this, Miss Honora." And Catherine's arms were about her. "Oh, it's Christmas, Cathy, isn't it? How could I have forgotten it!"
"I think I see myself dining with the corporation, and the Lord Major of Dublin getting up to propose the health of the hero of El Bodon, Mr. Free; and three times three, hurra! hurra! hurra! Musha, but it's dry I am gettin' with the thoughts of the punch and the poteen negus." "If you go on at this rate, we're not likely to be soon at our journey's end.
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