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"I come up in a leaky skiff las' night wid six boys dat do oberseer whip de Yankee out, he say; an' da say da go to Yankees now any how, an' I begged 'em to let me come, for da knows I has sich hard times. But da say, 'Aunt Peggy, de skiff leak so bad. But I tole 'em I's comin' wid a basin, an' I reckon I dip fas' enough to keep us 'bove water.
Awful to think of it." Mosey sighed piously, then resumed, "Grand dog you got since I seen you last. "No, Mosey. Bought him fair." "Jist so, jist so. You ought to give him to me. He's bound to pick up a bait with you; you're sich a careless &c., &c." And so the conversation ran on the subject of dogs during the return ride.
The wild life may be fine to read about in stories an' sich like, an' the young chaps may like it, but I want a home now; I want some one to care fer, an' to care fer me. What good is all the gold in the warld, Alec, when ye haven't a wife or kiddies to brighten yer cabin?" "Ye're owre late thinkin' aboot sic things," said Alec rather dryly, puffing away at his pipe. "I know it, man, I know it.
Dat raised my dander, and I grabbed de box and frowed it right over dar heads and cotched 'em fast. Den I put a big stone on it, and kept 'em dere free weeks, and afore I let 'em out I made 'em promise to behave 'emselves. Now I considers dat we'd better serve 'em some sich trick. Tie two, free hundred to de fence, and leave 'em dere for a few months."
Well, seh, I nuver 'spects to heah tell Judgment sich a soun' ez de folks set up! Ole missis she jes' drapt down on her knees in de mud an' prayed out loud.
Because, the ould women, and the young women, and the childer, and the likes o' them, wishes to scandalize their fellow cr'atures, Christians I will not call 'em, let 'em mate in the mill, or the school-house, and not come forenent a church on sich a business as that. Is it toll the bell, will I, afore the Missus is in sight?
Ten shillings both ways, that's the fare, and I see in the /Chronicle/, I du, that there's a wonnerful show of these new-fangled self-tying and delivering reapers, sich as they foreigners use over sea in America, and I'm rarely fell on seeing them and having a holiday look round Lunnon town.
"And tell her to skip," added Alley Mahon, "and not keep us here all the blessed mornin'." "Mrs. Norton!" exclaimed the woman; "I don't know any sich parson as that, Miss." "Why," said Lucy, putting her head out of the chaise, and re-examining the cottage, "surely this is where my friend Mrs. Norton did live, certainly. She must have changed her residence, Alley. This is most unfortunate!
I am proud of him, an' as Miz Mayfield says, he'll be proud of her." Still Margaret was loth to leave off. "I'm so glad to know that you ain't disapp'inted." "No one could be disappointed in her, Mrs. Starbuck. She has a strong character." "So glad to have sich a estimate from one that knows the world." "It is knowing something of the world that causes me to place so high a value upon her."
An' they murther ye in sich a tinder-hearted way that no raisonable landlord could have any objection to it." I have the honour of again remarking that Ireland is a wonderful country. No. 17.
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