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Oh! do come, Dickon!" "I'll come every day if tha' wants me, rain or shine," he answered stoutly. "It's th' best fun I ever had in my life shut in here an' wakenin' up a garden." "If you will come," said Mary, "if you will help me to make it alive I'll I don't know what I'll do," she ended helplessly. What could you do for a boy like that?

Oh! do come, Dickon!" "I'll come every day if tha' wants me, rain or shine," he answered stoutly. "It's the best fun I ever had in my life shut in here an' wakenin' up a garden." "If you will come," said Mary, "if you will help me to make it alive I'll I don't know what I'll do," she ended helplessly. What could you do for a boy like that?

"An' when hit do change," he would add, impressively, "it's gwine change fu' sho', an' we'll have one wakenin' up time. Den I bet you'll git dat silk dress you been wantin' so long." Polly did have ambitions in the direction of some such finery, and this plea always melted her. Trust was restored again, and Hope resumed her accustomed place.

He stooped and looked into the cave again, but it was as dark as night in there, and he could see nothing of the bear. Then he cut a long pole with his knife and reached in with it until he felt the soft body. A strong prod brought forth a protesting growl. Bruin did not like to have his slumbers disturbed. "Sure 'tis a bear an' that's wakenin' un," he commented.

"It was a marvel," she said afterwards, "how the scallywag did what she did widout wakenin' her, for there was the mistress sleepin' on the broad of her back, and her two shoes, and her bed-socks scattered over the flure, and the pot of cold crame knocked off the chair at the head of her bed, and the half of it et. It's mesilf will dance for joy whin that little tormint gets took away."

Ah'm a bachelor, ah am, an' there's non' to interfere wi' me, and ivvery nicht she's tied to my ain bed-post. Man, it's music to my ear to hear her champin' her corn a' the nicht. Na, na! Ah trust her in no stable; an' ah'd like to see the thief could steal her awa' oot o' my room withoot wakenin' me." "Well, maybe ye're right," said Dicky. "But mind, there's some cunnin' anes aboot.

'What the divil's the matther? says Andy Curtis, wakenin' out iv his sleep. 'Who's batin' the door? says Nell; 'what's all the noise for? says she. 'Who's in it? says Andy. 'It's me, says Jim. 'Who are you? says Andy; 'what's your name? 'Jim Soolivan, says he. 'By jabers, you lie, says Andy.

"I know that," said M'Cormick; "but how an ever, if you come down wid me that far, I'll conthrive to get in somehow, widout wakenin' them." "The dickens you will! How, the sarra, man?" "No matther, I will; an' you see," he added, pulling out a flask of spirits, "I'm not goin' impty-handed." "Phew!" exclaimed Duffy, "is it there you are? oh, that indeed!

His sermon was a masterpiece of fiery eloquence, and as Sister Green stepped out of the church door that night, she said, "Well, ef Brothah Eddards slep' dis mornin', he sholy prached a wakenin' up sermon ter-night." The congregation hardly remembered that their pastor had ever been asleep.

Well, Bill Malowney was not a minute remimberin' himself, an' so out wid him quite an' aisy, an' through the kitchen; bud in place iv the door iv the house, it's what he kem to the door iv Father O'Flaherty's little room, where he was jist wakenin' wid the noise iv the screechin' an' battherin'; an' bedad, Bill makes no more about it, but he jumps, wid one boult, clever an' clane into his raverance's bed.