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As black as a sloe you was; but now it's liker the blossom it's turned." "And time for it," said Theresa. "Sure I'm over sivinty year of age now, any way, every day of it and the long days there was among them, God knows." "But wid all that, ne'er a one of them was long enough for you to be findin' a man to your mind in it," said Ody.
'What ails ye? says I. 'Have ye seen th' divvle? 'Yes, he says, bendin' his head over th' bar, an' lookin' sivinty years instead iv forty-five." Any of the Archey Road cars that got out of the barns at all were pulled by teams of four horses, and the snow hung over the shoulders of the drivers' big bearskin coats like the eaves of an old-fashioned house on the blizzard night.
"So we wint up to our new station in that blazin' heat may the curse av Saint Lawrence conshume the man who gave the ordher! Will I iver forget that move? They gave us two wake thrains to the rigimint; an' we was eight hundher' and sivinty strong. There was A, B, C, an' D Companies in the secon' thrain, wid twelve women, no orficers' ladies, an' thirteen childher.
He sez only, 'Portsmith Barricks an' the 'Ard av a Sunday! Thin he lay down an' rowled any ways wid laughin'. "Whin we was all dhressed, we counted the dead sivinty-foive dacoits besides wounded. We tuk five elephints, a hunder' an' sivinty Sniders, two hunder' dahs, and a lot av other burglarious thruck. Not a man av us was hurt excep' maybe the Lift'nint, an' he from the shock to his dasincy.
"Have you had a job to-day, Tim?" inquired a well-known legal gentleman of the equally well-known, jolly, florid-faced old drayman, who, rain or shine, summer or winter, is rarely absent from his post. "Bedad, I did, sor." "How many?" "Only two, sor." "How much did you get for both?" "Sivinty cints, sor." "Seventy cents!
"Wan, two, three, four, five, six," began the patient. When the young doctor, with a start, opened his eyes, he was counting huskily: "Tin hundred an' sixty-nine, tin hundred an' sivinty, tin hundred an' sivinty-wan." An English storekeeper went to the war and left his clerk behind to look after things.
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