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"I was sayin', young gurls are much the same as they always were there's very small difference." "Do you know so much about them?" That sharp reply caught the ears of all, and Soames moved uneasily on his thin green chair. "Well, I don't know, I think they want their own small way, and I think they always did." "Indeed!"
"Like brothers," said Patsy with emphasis, "as they wor ever an' always. Sure the master was never the same man since. I often heard the people sayin' how it was the love of brothers was betwixt them, an' more, for many a blood brother doesn't fret for his brother as the master fretted for Master Terence. He was never the same man since."
Rathburn frowned, still keeping his hand over his right foot. "I don't like that word, Coyote," he said softly, holding the other's gaze between the bars. "A coyote is a cowardly breed of animal, isn't it?" "An' a tricky one," said the jailer. "I ain't sayin' you're a coward; but you're tricky, an' that's bad enough." "Maybe so," agreed Rathburn. "Ah here's our friend, his nibs, the sheriff.
"What iss that you will be sayin' about troubled dreams?" asked old McKay, coming out of the house at the moment. "We were just saying, daddy, that all our troubles seem " "Look yonder, Tan," interrupted the old man, pointing with his pipe-stem to a certain part of the heavens. "What iss it that I see? A queer cloud, whatever!
""Which now I'm goin'," he whispers, "no one's to mention that eepisode of the Pecos an' the little Mexican girl of Plaza Chico!" "'Edson is still a moment; an' then after sayin' "Good-by," he lets on that he desires me to leave him alone with the mare. ""I'll give Ruth yere a kiss an' a extra message for my sweetheart," he says, "an' then I'll sleep some."
I've heard more than one priest boast that there was less sin in the villages of Ireland than in any other country. And why? What is yer great cure for vice? MARRIAGE isn't it?" "What are ye sayin'?" "I'm sayin' this, Father Cahill. If a boy looks at a girl twice, what do ye do? Engage them to be married. To you marriage is the safeguard against sin. And what ARE such marriages?
"Well, it seems that every thriftless nigger in the county thinks he's got a claim upon you, sho' enough," put in Tom Spade. "It warn't mo'n last week that I had a letter from the grandson of yo' pa's old blacksmith Buck, sayin' he was to hang in Philadelphia for somebody's murder, an' that I must tell Marse Christopher to come an' git him off.
"Damn!" he screamed; and then, in an access of terrified remorse: "Oh, hell, hell, hell!" The girl laughed mockingly and took her foot from the pool, not in deference to his outburst, but because the water was icy cold and gave her a cramp. "Now you've done it," she remarked. "The devil'll shore get ye for sayin' that word, Tom-Jeff."
Well, we made lovely calls on the children, and got Tommy, who wuz more than willin' to come, and returned home about ten a.m., Tommy settin' between us and drivin' the mair, Thomas J. and Maggie sayin' they would drive over Sunday night after him and take tea with us.
"A searched the toon for them but cudna find them, but as A was sayin' as the secretary has no business tae bring before the meeting but a wheen havers, A move we adjourn tae tomorrow at 12:30 p. m. in this place, and I believe that as Brither Maitland is also a member o' this committee he will second the motion."
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