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"Come," he said, when out of ear-shot of the man, "we must pass through this village quickly, for we know not in what house the spies may have taken up their quarters." "But, don' you tink," suggested Ebony, "dat we five could wallop any oder five men in de univarse, to say not'ing ob two spies?"
There never was so rainy a place in the univarse, as that, I don't think, unless it's Ireland, and the only difference atween them two is that it rains every day amost in England, and in Ireland it rains every day and every night too. It's awful, and you must keep out of a country-house in such weather, or you'll go for it; it will kill you, that's sartain.
Slick, says he, I allot this aint "A BREAD COUNTRY;" I intend to sell off the house I improve, and go to the States. If it aint a bread country, said I, I never see'd one that was. There is more bread used here, made of best superfine flour, and No. 1. Genesssee, than in any other place of the same population in the univarse.
If the sea was always calm, said he, it would pyson the univarse; no soul could breathe the air, it would be so uncommon bad.
"There's that bloody Smudge, notwithstanding; I hardly think it will be expected of me to look upon him as anything but a 'long-shore pirate, and a fellow to be disposed of in the shortest way possible. As for old Van Tassel, he's gone to square the yards in a part of the univarse where all his tricks will be known; and I hold it to be onreasonable to carry spite ag'in a man beyond the grave.
Sure I wance wint after the doctor o' a ship, to carry his box for him when he wint on what he called botanical excursions; and the poor cratur used to be pokin' his nose for iver down at the ground, an' peerin' through his green spectacles at miserable bits o' plants, an' niver seemin' to enjoy anything; when all the time I was lookin' far fornint me, an' all around me, an' up at the sky, seem' ivery beautiful thing, and snifterin' up the sweet smells, an' in fact enjoyin' the whole univarse an my pipe to boot like an intelligent cratur."
"Ha!" said the man, with a broad grin, "me keep eyes in head me doos not in pocket. Ho! ho! Yis, me see an' hear berry well Muggins go too if hims can and Larry O'Hale, ho yis. Now, me go too!" "You too?" "Yis. You save me life; me know dis here part ob the univarse, bin bornded an' riz here. Not far off from de land to-day. You let me go too, an' me show you how you kin do "
"And what's words," retorted the cook, in supreme contempt, "but the expression o' sintiment, widout which there wouldn't have bin nuthin' wotsomediver in the univarse? Sintiment is the mother of all things, as owld Father O'Dowd used to say to my grandmother whin he wanted to come the blarney over her.
It's thrue I had nothin' in the univarse to do, for I could niver git work nohow, an' whin I got it I could niver kape it. I niver could onderstan' why, but so it was. Nivertheless I managed to live well enough in the ould cabin wid the murphies " "Vat is murphies?" inquired La Roche. "Bliss yer innocent face, don't ye know it's praties?" "'Tis vat?"
"More nor ye think, boy; sure there isn't nothin' in the univarse but she can spaik about, just like a book, an' though she niver was in the doldrums as far as I knows, she's been in the dumps often enough; maybe it's cousins they are. Anyhow she's not here, an' so we must be contint with spekilation." "What's that you say, Larry?" inquired the captain, who walked towards the bow at the moment.
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