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Matt, the Irish will fight anybody and anything, but they'll fight quicker, with less excuse and greater delight, among themselves, than any other nationality! The Florence Ricks carried a million feet of lumber, but she wasn't big enough for Rooney and O'Leary, so I fired them both, not being desirous of playing favorites.
"Do you remember when you saw Betty stoop over that broken stump of the old oak and take something out?" "Of course I do," said Sibyl. "It was a piece of wood. I found it the next day." "Well, it wasn't a piece of wood," said Fanny. "What can you mean?" asked Sibyl. She stood perfectly still, staring at her companion. Then she burst into a sort of frightened laugh.
I have a pretty good knowledge of shell-shock, as you know, and it didn't look like it to me. I don't suggest she wasn't speaking the truth. I mean that this particular action didn't seem to be so caused." There was silence for a moment, and then Merriman continued: "There was another thing which might bear in the same direction, or again it may only be my imagination I'm not sure of it.
"You ought to be thankful it wasn't our money, which it would have been, only for John," said Nat next morning. "Penetrating peanuts! When I think of what might have happened I shudder," and he gave an imitation of a cold chill running down his back. "It's bad enough," said Jack. "Of course we need the money, but we could get more on a pinch.
"You're tired," said the grandmother, energetically. "Come far this morning?" "No," said Elizabeth, weakly, "not many miles; but I hadn't any more bread. I used it all up yesterday, and there wasn't much money left. I thought I could wait till I got here, but I guess I'm hungry." "Fer the land sakes!" ejaculated Mrs.
"And I expect he was willin' to call it a night after that, eh?" says I. "Reg'lar thrill hound, wasn't he? What became of him?" "Ah!" says Don Pedro. "It is for that I come to you." "Oh, yes, so you have," says I. "I'd most forgotten. Yes, yes! You still have the idea I can trace out Yohness for you? Suppose I could, though, how would you be sure it was the same one, after so many years?
Aunt Jane said I was to have my old room, and so, as soon as I got here, I went right up and took off my hat and coat, and pretty quick they brought up my trunk, and I unpacked it; and I didn't hurry about it either. I wasn't a bit anxious to get downstairs again to Aunt Jane. Besides, I may as well own up, I was crying a little.
"True for you, Master Tom; but I wasn't laughing at the ravage, but at the idee of your uncle, who creeps about thinking he's very bad when he arn't thinking o' nothing else, going spinning down the hill, and steering hisself right into the old sand-pit." "And I don't see that you have anything to laugh at in that," said Tom stiffly.
But in my opinion he is merely a crank or an impostor, who has succeeded in obtaining the support and endorsement of their State Department. "What is that? Oh yes; he's an American. His name? How should I remember! I wasn't interested either in him, or what he had to say.
He wasn't that, of course, in any intrinsic sense: like most men of his type he had gulped his knowledge standing, as he had snatched his food from lunch-counters; the wonder of it lay in his extraordinary power of assimilation.
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