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Each of 'em lets go every load he's got, but the goat don't get hit onct. "When we-all counts twelve shots six apiece we goes out an' subdoos the goat by the power of numbers. Of course, the dooel's ended. The Red Dog folks borries a wagon an' takes away their man, who's suffered a heap; an' Peets, he stays over thar an' fusses 'round all night savin' of him.
"It's the last hurt I'll be havin', Dan," he said before he fainted. "Don't speak the word, Mouse, an' you just after savin' me life!" Then the men in the fire-room saw a miracle: tears filled the big stoker's eyes. Neville had heard Larry's cry and rushed to the boiler-room. "For God's sake! what's happened now?" Dan pointed a shaking finger.
Even Miss Tranter aint wantin' in feelin', though she's a bit sour like, owin' to 'avin missed a 'usband an' all the savin' worrity wear-an-tear a 'usband brings, but she aint arf bad. Yon's the lamp of 'er 'Trusty Man' now." A gleam of light, not much larger than the glitter of one of the glow-worms in the grass, was just then visible at the end of the long field they were traversing.
Bill Briggs, with some sense of delicacy in his nature, brought some fresh water from the far end of the passageway. For this act he was reviled by his companions. "It's no easy job to get water here, Briggs," roared Sam. "We got to be savin' with it." "Well, don't let it hurt you," retorted Bill. "I'll carry it up from the river to-night. You won't have to do it."
I let 'im off the farden in consideration that he 'adn't got one, an' I had no change. Vell, to return to the p'int vich was wot the old toper remarked to his wife every night I've bin savin' up of late." "Saving up, have you?" "Yes, them penny banks 'as done it. W'y, it ain't a wirtue to be savin' now-a-days, or good, or that sort o' thing.
Gridley, nor to hurt no honest body, for I'm a poor woman, Mr. Gridley, but I comes of dacent folks, an' I vallies my repitation an' character as much as if I was dressed in silks and satins instead of this mane old gown, savin' your presence, which is the best I 've got, an' niver a dollar to buy another. But if I iver I hears a word, Mr.
Ye put me in mind of a wizened old man that sat all day makin' shoes in Killarney, all savin' the fringe he had on his chin." "A soldier must be dignified," I answered. "The saints bar that wurrd from hiven," said Terence, trying to pronounce it. "Come, we'll go to mass, or me mother will be visitin' me this night."
'Twa'n't savin' life neither; 'twas jest a matter of bus'ness. "It happened up off the coast of Maine 'long in the seventies. I was actin' as sort of second mate on a lumber schooner. 'Twas a pitch-black night, or mornin' rather, 'bout six o'clock, blowin' like all possessed and colder 'n Greenland.
"Yuh'll not make yer own livin' an' eat the likes o' this," she grumbled asthmatically. "Yuh'd better be savin' yer money." Mrs. Cregan was looking at the thick china with a sort of aggrieved despondence. As her pancakes were served to her, she bent over the plate to hide a tear that trickled down her nose. It splashed on the piece of food that she raised to her mouth. She ate it tear and all.
"Yes, I probably shall, Ann. It will save you a little work, and there are plenty of servants at Killimaga." He went down the walk to the street. Ann looked after him, the rebuke forgotten. "Savin' me work, is it? Faith, he ought to be thinkin' of savin' his pinnies, slashin' thim around to the likes of McCarthy."
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