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How did you fare along your side of the house?" "Three kilt, an' maybe a dozen wounded. Oi got chipped up myself, but only the skin av me. Those lads come up fierce, sorr, an' they'd 'a' made it too, only fer our ravolvers. We must have shot a dozen of 'em right in the winders." "And the rest of the house do you know how they came out?" "Oi do, sorr; Oi've made the rounds.
Then Ned went over to Luke, who was looking at him with surprise, and laid his hand on his shoulder. "Luke," he said, "I want you to tell me exactly how it was that you came to tell Bill to write that letter to Mr. Wakefield?" Luke started and then looked savagely over at Bill, who stood twirling his cap in his hand. "Oi couldn't help it, Luke," he said humbly.
Pettigrew, that prim little effigy of a man, and his delightful Irish wife, and how conversation used to run when he was within hearing?" "Glad to have a tasting, Kit," and the General lay back in expectation. "'Oi remember him, as foine an upstanding young officer as ye would wish to see, six feet in his boots. "'About five feet ten, I believe, was his exact height, my dear.
The boys were greatly relieved, but still this friendly overture might be merely a feint to open the way for a home thrust. Sam was silent. So Yan said, presently, "We ain't allowed to use anything but what the Indians had or could get in the woods." "An' who don't allow yez?" "The rules." "Oh," said William, with some amusement. "Oi see! Hyar."
As it was, two did crack open, but he got the other one, and that was virtually his dinner. A Purple Blackbird came hopping in the door now. "Will, now, thayer's Jack. Whayer hev ye been? I thought ye wuz gone fur good. Shure Oi saved him from a murtherin' gunner," she explained.
"Oi think moi leg be broke." Ned saw now that as the lad had fallen his leg had been twisted under him, and that he was unable to extricate it. In a moment he was kneeling before the prostrate lad. "Oh! I am sorry," he exclaimed; "but you know I didn't mean to do it. Here, Tompkins, don't sit there like a fool, but come and help me move him and get his leg straight."
Ye've had an ugly one on the back o' thy head, but I dowt thou wilt do rarely now." Ned looked round vaguely, then a look of intelligence came into his face. "Where is Bill?" he asked. "He be hurted sorely, but oi think it be only loss o' blood, and he will coom round again; best lie still a few minutes, maister, thou wilt feel better then; Polly, she be tending Bill."
The two were pointing and soon the whole crew was lined up staring into the brilliance. Their fresh eyes caught the glimpse immediately and held it long enough to make sure. "A sail!" "There she is!" "Oi see her!" bellowed half a dozen voices. The whole crew fell into tense, happy confusion, laughing, staring, yelling, speculating, slapping backs. "Will she see us?" cried someone.
'Shove, shove! shouted the men, and oi runs into t' water loike t' rest and shooved. Then a lot o' men run up shouting, 'Stop! in the king's name! and began vor to fire pistols. "Nateral oi wasn't a-going to be fired at for nowt, so oi clutches moi stick and goes at 'em wi' the rest, keeping close to t' chap as told me as he knew the coontry. There was a sharp foight vor a minute.
"Oi shtayed till th' Lady Constance died an' little Eily married a rich man from Noo Yor-rk Car-rson, or meby Carmen, his name was; an' he carried her off to Amur-rica. 'Twas not th' same in Kerry afther that, an' Oi shtrayed from th' gold camps av Australia to th' woods av Canada." The far-away look that had crept into the old man's eyes vanished, and his voice became gruff and hard.
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