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Colonel Pepper retired within himself. The unsteady and excitable fellow had been crowded to the rear by his comrades, who evidently wished to lessen, in some degree, the possibilities of a fight. "Phwat's in thim rivers ye're spoutin' about?" asked one. "Vater, ov course." "Me wooden-shoed fri'nd, ye mane beer beer." "You insolt me, you red-headed "
"Kilt!" cried Larry, forgetting his caution in his excitement; "faix he was, an' Bunco did it, too blissin's on his dirty face putt the ball betune his two eyes an' took the laist bit of skin off yer own nose, but the blood was spoutin' from ye like wather, an' if it hadn't bin that the cliver feller knowed all about tyin' up an' there, honey, I wint an' forgot don't mind me och! sure, he's off again!"
William was ashamed of having uttered the exclamation, as being guilty of causing a "false alarm." He was about to explain himself, when the white object once more rose up against the sky, now observed by all. "That's what I saw," said the alarmist, confessing himself mistaken. "If ye took it for a sail, lad," rejoined the sailor, "you war mistaken. It be only the spoutin' o' a sparmacety."
The bullets pinged around us, although I saw a German officer a decent young fellow try to keep his men from shootin'. But he couldn't hold 'em in, so I hoisted Tom on my back an' started for our trenches. Got there, too, you know, jest as a machine-gun over to the right started spoutin'. It didn't matter my droppin' Tom in the trench an' tumblin' after him.
My mate who's workin' on munitions told me 'e saw 'underds o' soldiers rushin' to take shelter in the last raid on London. O' course there was crowds o' civvies doin' the same, but 'e says there was a lot what didn't seem to care a damn. The other day we 'ad a bloody parson spoutin' to us 'e said war brings out a man's pluck an' makes an 'ero of 'im. I reckon that's all bloody tosh!
That there was Jud's show ter git in his fine work. Used ter bring down deer-meat for the ol' man, an' sody-water from that there spoutin' spring up ter Crazy Cañon; an' it begun to look like Hemenway'd give in an' let him have her. But he seemed to hold off. "The boys used ter nearly josh the life out o' Jud.
The shearers looked at each other gravely. Then they all winked. "The spoutin' bloke sez he likes his fill iv tangle," said Bill, "well he'll get it t-night. I'm goin t' stand a spree fer me poor relation."
He's a fine feller and he's so tickled, now that his youngster's 'most well, that he cruises around spoutin' talk and joy same as a steamer's stack spouts cinders. He told me. Then Obed Gott and Cornelius Rowe and Redny Blount and Pat Starkey, and land knows how many more, came to tell me. I cut 'em short.
'Och, Dublin's city, there's no doubtin', Bates every city on the say; 'Tis there you'll hear O'Connell spoutin', And Lady Morgan making tay; For 'tis the capital of the finest nation, Wid charmin' peasantry on a fruitful sod, Fightin' like divils for conciliation, An' hatin' each other for the love of God.
But oh, Masther Robert, I a'most forgot to tell ye, account of that spalpeen that thought to hindher yer own fosther-brother from comin' to see ye; but there's the most wondherful baste out in the say this minit; an' it's spoutin' up water like the fountain that used to be at Dunore, only a power bigger; an' lyin' a-top of the waves like an island, for all the world!
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