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Jemmy was my ould sweetheart, only I had given him up because he was always stealing my pocket-handkerchers. But he came that morning and tapped at my window, and 'Will you come, Anne? says he, and I whipped on my perricut and stole out and down to the quay with him. But my heart was losing me when I saw the white horses on the water, and home I came and went to church with this one instead."
"I will," he replied, "after I hang him ha, ha, ha; 'twas he that killed her; he let her die wid hunger, but now he'll swing for it, ha, ha!" These words were accompanied by another chuck, which pulled miserable Skinadre almost off his legs. "Tom, for shame," said Mave, "why would you do sich an unmanly thing with this poor ould crature? be a man, and let him go."
I'm only afeard that hell has no corner hot enough for him but lave that to the divil himself: if he doesn't give him the best thratement hell can afford, why I'm not here." "Divil a one o' the ould boy's so bad as they say, father; he gives it to thim hot an' heavy, at all evints."
"Yes, let's go and see Sawney in his "Ould Reeky." Airth and seas! if I have any nose at all, there never was a place so well named as that. Phew! let me light a cigar to get rid of the fogo of it. "Then let's cross over and see "Pat at Home;" let's look into matters and things there, and see what "Big Dan" is about, with his "association" and "agitation" and "repail" and "tee-totals."
"Has he got any father and mother?" "He's got a mother, but the ould woman's drunk most all the time." "Then she won't care about his stealing?" "No, she'll think he's smart." "Then we'll go there. Is it far?" "Not more than twenty minutes." The boy was right. Jim steered for home, not being able to open the bag in the street without suspicion.
'Will you promise to grant me this great favour, now that my head is clear, and I have no pain, and can ask it right? 'There is little I 'ould refuse you, Netta; but I should rather hear it first. 'It is about Owen and Gladys, father. They have loved one another ever since they were first together.
"As to that, some says ay, an' some says no; but I believe myself, that he has, like his father, both good and bad in him; for the ould man, if the maggot bit him, or that if he took the notion, would do one a good turn; an' if he took a likin' to you, he'd go any lin'th to sarve you; but, then, you were never sure of him nor he didn't himself know this minute what he'd do the next."
Here, devil a one o' me will go on till we give them all the honors Hip! begin." "Hip!" sighed the luckless editor, as he rose from his chair, obedient to the command. "Hurra! hurra! hurra! Well done! There's stuff in you yet, ould foolscap! The little bottle's empty; ring again, if ye plaze. 'Oh, Father Magan Was a beautiful man, But a bit of a rogue, a bit of a rogue!
No use us shtandin here longer gassin' like a bunch av ould washer-wimmin full av gin an' throuble." In silence they trudged on to the detachment. "'Ome, sweet 'ome! be it never so 'umble!" quoth Yorke, as they reached their destination, "Hullo! who's this coming along?" Shading his eyes with his hand he gazed down the trail. "Looks like Doctor Cox and Lanky."
She's a fine figure of a girl as iver you saw, and as good as gould, and the bit of lan' and the bit of money had a right to go the one way. So I was thinkin', Mrs. Joyce, I might as well be takin' home the ould him wid me things bein' diff'rent now, and no talk of Bessy. Sally has a great wish for a white hin, and we've ne'er a one of that sort at our place.
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