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We'll give her the bank below with the ditch in front of it. 'Tisn't very big at all, and she'll be bound to lep with the sup of wather that's in it." Thus Johnny Connolly, wiping a very heated brow. The bank below was a broad and solid structure well padded with grass and bracken, and it had a sufficiently obvious ditch, of some three feet wide, on the nearer side.
Well, the last bishkit was sarved out, and by gor the wather itself was all gone at last, and we passed the night mighty cowld; well, at the brake o' day the sun riz most beautifully out o' the waves, that was as bright as silver and as clear as chrystal.
"I haven't a sponge or towel, but I'll just wash your face in salt wather and lave you to dry in the sun." He filled the bailing tin with sea water. "I don't want to wash!" shouted Dick. "Stick your face into the water in the tin," commanded Paddy. "You wouldn't be going about the place with your face like a sut-bag, would you?" "Stick yours in!" commanded the other.
Take care now, or ye'll be in mettlefeesics soon. I say, ould black-face," Barney was not on ceremony with the old trader, "is there no land in thim parts at all?" "No, not dis night," "Och, then, we'll have to git up a tree and try to cook somethin' there; for I'm not goin' to work on flour and wather. Hallo! hould on! There's an island, or the portrait o' wan! Port your helm, Naygur! hard aport!
There was the rock the blessed rock on which Mulford had so accidentally struck, close before them and presently they were all on it. The mate took the pot and ran to the little reservoir, returning with a sweet draught for each of the party. "A blessed, blessed thing, is wather!" exclaimed Biddy, this time finding the relief she sought, "and a thousand blessings on you, Mr.
"Just thin Crook comes up, blue an' white all over where he wasn't red. "'Wather! sez he; 'I'm dead wid drouth! Oh, but it's a gran' day! "He dhrank half a skinful, and the rest he tilts into his chest, an' it fair hissed on the hairy hide av him. He sees the little orf'cer bhoy undher the Sargint. "'Fwhat's yonder? sez he.
"Ay, pancakes they is, made of flour an' wather fried in grease, an' the best of aitin', as ye'll find; but, musha! they've all stuck together from some raison I han't yet diskivered: but they'll be none the worse for that, and there's plenty of good thick molasses to wash 'em down wid." "And this," said Jack, pointing to a battered tin kettle, "is the the " "That's the coffee, sur."
"The mate is asleep, and the fire has burned down; that's the explanation. Besides, fuel is not too plenty on a place like that Mr. Mulford inhabits just now. As we get near the spot, I shall look out for embers, which may sarve as a light-house, or beacon, to guide us into port." "Mr. Mulford will be charmed to see us, now that we take him wather!" exclaimed Biddy.
'Oh, tare an ouns, says he unto himself, 'an' must I sit up all night, and that ould vagabond of a sperit, glory be to God, says he, 'serenading through the house, an' doin' all sorts iv mischief. However, there was no gettin' aff, and so he put a bould face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of pottieen, and another of holy wather.
"O, thin, ar'n't you afeard that whin you come to the top and that you're obleedged to go down, that you'd go slidderhin away intirely, and never be able to stop, maybe. It's bad enough, so it is, going down hill by land, but it must be the dickens all out by wather." "But there is no hill, Paddy; don't you know that water is always level?"
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