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"Oh, I know it's giving you the sort of pain you had when dad had the telephone put on " "Well, 'tis the quare onnatural little machine, an' I niver feel anyways at home with it, Mr. Jim," Murty defended himself. "There's lots like you, Murty. But you'll admit that when we've got to send a telegram, it's better to telephone it than make a man ride thirty-four miles with it?"
Meanwhile the Irishman continued to refresh himself with the bread and cheese. "Ye see it's o' no manner o' use me tryin' to help ye, my dear," he said, apologetically, "for I niver was much of a hand at packin', my exparience up to this time havin' run pretty much in the way o' havin' little or nothin' to pack.
"'I don't hold wid no convic's, says Jim; 'I hold wid honest men; an' if it's convic's be comin' to take the best piece-work out of our hands, it's time we struck to a man, says Jim. "Niver, niver but wanct has Jim called me 'Mrs.
"'Does ye expect me to do the washin' with the cookin'? "'Yes. "'Thin I'll niver go to that place! "'And does ye expect me to get the early breakfast for yer husband to be off in the train every mornin'? "'Yes. "'I niver does that, that ought to be a second girl's work. "'How many servants does ye keep, ma'am? "'Two. "'I niver lives with people that keeps but two servants.
Aileen was trying to anticipate Maggie's tale, and in anticipation of the worst happening to Champney Googe, she lost her patience. She could not bear the suspense. "But Jim didn't sass the boss he sassed Mr. Googe. 'T was this way, so Mrs. MacLoughanchan says Jim said niver a word about the fight to me, but he said he would lave the place if they didn't strike Mr.
They niver know'd him while he was a-livin' with her, else they'd ha' know'd him here; but he hadn't lived with her but a mighty little while's near's I could make out. Yer see, she was powerful rich, an' he hadn't but little; 'n' for all she was so much in love with him, she couldn't help a-throwin' it up to him, sort o', an' he couldn't stan' it.
But it's awful warm you've made my heart, b'ys. It's a warm heart that's good to have summer and winter." And then she broke down. "Niver do you moind me, b'ys," she went on after a moment. "'Tis this sort of tears that makes a mother's loife long, so 'tis." "Well, Mrs. Brady, ma'am, we're done," reported Pat at a few minutes before four.
The Indians, marcifully, niver came to look for us. In truth, while they were hunting about down came the building on their heads, and we could hear their shrieks and cries as they tried to scramble out from among the flames. If it had not been for a small vent-hole far away up in a corner, we should have been suffocated, maybe.
"Not a thing yet; but it's meself that 'xpacts to ivery day." "In course, or ye wouldn' keep at the business. But s'pose, my friend, you go on this way for a year more what then?" "As long as I can thravel over the airth and Miss Cora isn't found, me faat shall niver find rest." The trapper indulged in an incredulous smile.
Well, she backed a step or two, an' she looked at it, and then she laughed out, an' says she, a pointin' of her finger at it: "Nimmy, nimmy not, Yar name's Tom Tit Tot." Well, when that hard her, that shruck awful an' awa' that flew into the dark, an' she niver saw it noo more.
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