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He's the best shot in the ship, I'm certain." "Y'rself excepted," interposed the captain wonderfully politely for him; singing out loudly at the same time, "Bosun!" "Here, sorr," cried Tim, who had been waiting below close to the poop ladder, expecting the summons, and who was all agog at the prospect of a fight. "Here I am, sorr."
The whole atmosphere seemed charged with it; it even appeared in a long bank to the right, rising and obscuring the declining sun. But they were already within sight of the fort and the little copse beside it. Then trooper Cassidy trotted up to the colonel, who was riding in a dusty cloud beside the carryall, "Captain Fleetwood's compliments, sorr, and there are two sthragglers, Mrs.
"How came you by this?" the Fiscal demanded. "Shall I tell ye in bits, sorr?" said Boyd, "or will ye have her from the beginning?" "From the beginning," said the Fiscal, "only with as few digressions as possible." "Sure," said Boyd innocently, "I got none o' them about me. Your honour can saarch me if ye like!"
The whiskey was lent and returned, but Dinah Shadd, who had been just as eager as her husband in asking after old friends, rent me with "I take shame for you, sorr, coming down here though the Saints know you're as welkim as the daylight whin you do come an' upsettin' Terence's head wid your nonsense about about fwhat's much better forgotten. He bein' a civilian now, an' you niver was aught else.
"Hould my harse," sez the Capt'n to his man, an' wid that he gets down wid the whip an' lays into Jungi, just mad wid rage an' swearin' like the scutt he was. 'I thought, afther a while, he wud kill the man, so I sez: "Stop, Sorr, or you'll, murdher him!" That dhrew all his fire on me, an' he cursed me into Blazes, an' out again.
The hippopotamus shut his eyes for a minute. "That bird's dead," said the little girl; "come along." Terbourg They then went for a walk and, in Kensington Gore, near one of the entrances to Hyde Park or Kensington Gardens, there was an old Irish apple-woman sitting with her feet in a basket, smoking a pipe and selling oranges. "Arranges two a penny, sorr," said the old woman in a general way.
"Instead of being too early, I'm afraid I am a little late." "The divil a bit, sorr," replied Rooney. "We've only jist this viry minnit struck down the last av the cargo; an' if ye'd come afore, why, it's ruckshions there'd a bin about our skulkin', I know."
"Well, when Wallace was hiring his gardener he asked him whom he had been living with. "'Misther Dalton, sorr. "'Have you a recommendation, Terence? "'A ricommindation is it, sorr? Sure I have nothing agin Misther Dalton, though he moightn't be knowing just the respict the likes of a first-class garthener is entitled to." He did not laugh. He seldom does, it seems, at his own stories.
"Aye, aye, sorr," replied Tim; and, presently, the stowaway, who looked none the worse for his fall, came shambling sheepishly up the poop ladder, Tim following in his wake, and saying as he ushered him into the captain's presence, "Here he is, sorr."
Here is a consequence of alien rule in Ireland, never, so far as I know, brought to the notice of Parliament. "Why is this?" I asked; "is it because of the time of the year they select?" "The time of year, sorr?" he replied, glancing compassionately at me. "No, not at all; it's because of the oaths!"
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