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"Come, Nanny acushla, give us another dhrop of that you gev us last," exclaimed one, whose rolling eyes gave token, of approaching intoxication; "you're not used to be sparin', an' considherin' the way you get id, needn't be so eh? Dick, what do you say to another drink?" "Game to the last," answered the man addressed "never refuse id."
The five men laughed heartily at this remark, and seemed to anticipate with delight the fulfillment of their foul plot. "We owe him a good one fer capturin' Long Tom and makin' him pious and an enemy of our bizness," said Bert Danks, captain of the Honey Crick band, "and I hope you uns won't be sparin' of de tar ner easy with de rail.
For Hannah had no mean opinion of her own merits, and this set her forth as an epitome of many Christian graces, reading thus: "Here lies the mortal body of Hannah Achsah Stillwell which she was hed nurse in the family of Howard Neville eskire for years and brung up mostly by hand his children and never felt she done enuf for them not sparin herself with infantile elements walkin nites and the like, pashunt and gentle not cross-grained like some which the poor little things they can't help theirselves teethin and the like, respeckful to her betters knoin her place, kind to them beneth her which she was much thort of by all above and below her and respected by her ekals.
And didn't I hear the convarse o' all the doctors in the place? And wasn't the word always `Be rigglar with yer mails don't ait, avic, more nor three times a day, and not too much, now. Be sparin'." "Hah! ye long-winded grampus," interrupted Dick Barnes, impatiently. "An' warn't the doctors right? Three times a day for sick folk, and six times or more for them wot's well."
"Your recommendation's quite sufficient to satisfy me that Mr er Troubridge'll do very well; an' since he's willin' to come with us we'll have him most gratefully, sir, and with many thanks to you for sparin' of him to us." "Very well, then; that is settled," exclaimed the skipper briskly.
The old man I have mentioned, the one with long, sunburnt hair and buckskin shirt and who seemed a sort of aide or lieutenant to father, rode close to our wagon and indicated the jaded saddle-animals with a cock of his head. "Not sparin' horseflesh, Captain," he muttered in a low voice. "An' what in the name of Sam Hill are they hard-riding for if it ain't for us?"
After calming his men, and advising forbearance, he turned to Duncan McKay senior, who was the settlers' spokesman, and said "If you will go peaceably away out of the colony, we will spare you, but if you show fight your blood be on your own heads, for I cannot restrain my men much longer." "Iss it sparin' us you will be talkin' of, Cuthbert Grant?" answered the Highlander, with scorn.
"You're a-goin' the wrong way, when you stop takin' only from the Collectors and the proud rich men, and sparin' the poor. Instead o' doin' good to balance the bad, it'll soon be all bad, and you no better 'n a common thief! You needn't show your teeth; it's true, and I say it square to y'r face!" She saw the cruel intensity of his anger, but did not flinch.
The cart started off, and Mrs. Thornburgh was left staring into the receding eyes of 'Jim the Noodle, who, from his seat on the near shaft, regarded her with a gaze which had passed from benevolence into a preternatural solemnity. 'He's sparin' ov 'is speach, is John Backhouse, said Sarah grimly, as her mistress returned to her. 'Maybe ee's aboot reet.
"Well, well," said the elderly woman; "I've had 'em both, and it's hard to say which can be spared best, but as we've got nothin' to do with the sparin' of 'em, we've got ter rest satisfied. After all, they're a good deal like lilock bushes, both of 'em.
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