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The height of his ambition seemed to be to have "tin min undher him," and his greatest trial was "huntin' thim tarmints of cows." He was the butt of all the jokes and tricks in the camps round, yet he took everything good-naturedly; "the boys must have their laugh sometimes," being his only comment.
At all events the strike question was settled in that week below, and Johnny McLean held the ringleaders now in the hollow of his hand. Terence O'Hara opened his eyes and delivered a dictum two hours after he was carried home. "Tell thim byes," he growled in weak jerks, "that if any wan of thim says shtrike till that McLean child drops the hat, they'll fight O'Hara."
"Why, mother must have a hundred of them in the shop at this very minute, besides those little ones she brought up herself which Jenny used to act as nurse to!" "Och, sure, Oi rimimber thim will enuff," answered Mick, with a melancholy look on his face, as if his mind had turned back from Santa Cruz to Bonfire Corner all of a sudden and to our little house there.
'An', says th' ca'm Englishman, 'if it wasn't f'r our common hurtage, he says, 'I'd make ye jump over th' gran' stand, he says. 'Th' English always cud beat us r-runnin', says the sage iv Matsachoosetts. 'Th' Americans start first an' finishes last, says th' Englishman. An' I had to pull thim apart."
He's called down thim nature writers just th' same way he'd call me down if I wint befure th' fifth grade at th' Brothers' school an' told thim what I thought wud inthrest thim about Dock Haggerty. What does he say? I'll tell ye.
I always thought at home, when I heard the folks tarking, that I 'd get work on the railway when I 'd come to Ameriky. Yis, indeed, sir!" continued Nora earnestly. "I was looking at the mills just now, and I heard the great n'ise from them. I 'd never be afther shutting meself up in anny mill out of the good air. I 've no call to go to jail yet in thim mill walls.
"Leave the train there till morning," urged Torrance; "we'll unload it first thing." "Lave thim, is it?" shouted Murphy. "Lave thim on the main line! Not likely! When I lave this man-trap, they go too." "Murphy, you're a bad-tempered little stickler to rules that don't mean a cuss. There isn't another train within a hundred miles or so, except west; there won't be one this way for days."
"'I mane, says I, 'what I towld you, that I'm as good a furriner myself as any o' thim. "'Make me sinsible, says he. "'By dad, maybe that's more nor me, or greater nor me, could do, says I, and we all began to laugh at him, for I thought I would pay him off for his bit o' consait about the Garmant Oceant.
On that Oi took him by the collar, lifted him out of bed, took him acrass the room, showed him his ugly face in the glass, and Oi said to him, says Oi, 'Is thim the eyes of an invoy extraorr-rrdinarry and ministher plinipotentiarry?" Among interesting reminders of my predecessors was a letter in the archives, written about the year 1832 by Mr.
"Any news!" he asked confidentially, leaning forward and dropping his husky voice. This meant, generally, had he heard of anything likely to change the chances of next day's race. "Ur who 's goin' to win the steep'!" Robin looked wiser. "Well the' may be some surprises tomorrow. You keep your eyes open. Dese heah Yankee hosses don' always have dey own way " "I try to, but thim sheenies!
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