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It had seemed the least bit encouraging, and he meditated anew on the only twenty minutes of real pleasurable excitement he had ever felt in his life, the twenty minutes with Dicksie Dunning at Smoky Creek. Her intimates, he had heard, called her Dicksie, and he was vaguely envying her intimates when the night despatcher, Rooney Lee, opened the door and disturbed his reflections.
Putting on the new dress, our hero was soon ready to descend, with the lamp burning in his hand. "There are three men down just now," said Baldwin as he was about to screw on the mouth-piece, "two of 'em bein' your old friends Maxwell and Rooney Machowl. They've been down about three hours, and won't be up for an hour yet. See that you don't foul them in your wanderings below.
But the rule on the farm was very different, every one admitted; to his men James Rooney was not only just but generous. Presently the young fellow came home from school, gay and light-hearted. He was a tall young giant, who presently developed a fine red moustache, and had a rollicking gait well in keeping with his bold blue eyes.
"Begorra, that's a good job done wid anyhow," said Tim Rooney on "Old Jock" telling us that all danger of weathering the Cape was past and that we were well within the limits of the Southern Ocean, whose long roll, however, and the cold breath of the Antarctic ice-fields had already betrayed this fact to the old hands on board.
But of all those who were assembled at the station at that time, Red Rooney was the man who rejoiced most, for there he found an English vessel on the eve of starting for the "old country," the captain of which was not only willing but glad to get such an able seaman to strengthen his crew.
Philip McBride, no longer flourishing Phil; since you are now all reconciled, let me have the pleasure of giving you a reconciliation dinner, at the wedding of Honor McBride, who is an honour to her family, and Randal Rooney, who so well deserves her love. The McBRIDES and ROONIES join in the cry of Long life and great luck to your ladyship, that was always good! Mr. Carv.
While ascending, Rooney took care to avail himself of the rugged nature of the ice, so as to conceal himself entirely from the bear though this was scarcely needful, for the animal's back was turned towards the Kablunet, and his whole attention was concentrated on the gulls.
Rooney for it's in terror of his life he lives, continually draming day and night, and croaking of carders and thrashers, and oak boys, and white boys, and peep-o'-day boys, and united boys, and riband-men, and men and boys of all sorts that have, and that have not, been up and down the country since the rebellion. Catty. The poor cratur!
Rooney laughed at this, and said, Yes; they were much bigger as big as the cliffs alongside. "Huk!" exclaimed the Eskimos in various tones.
"Well," said the remorseless wretch, as he finished his story, "if ye haven't the hard hearts to laugh at such a melancholy subject. Maybe, however, you're not so cruel after all here's a toast for you, 'a speedy recovery to Cusack Rooney." This was drank amid renewed peals, with all the honors; and I had abundant time before the uproar was over, to wish every man of them hanged.
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