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"Now, boys, whayer do you want yer bed?" then stopping at a thought he added, "Maybe ye didn't want me to help want to do everything yerselves?" "Ugh, bully good squaw. Keep it up wagh!" said his son and heir, as he calmly sat on a log and wore his most "Injun brave" expression of haughty approval. The father turned with an inquiring glance to Yan, who replied: "We're mighty glad of your help.
As it was, two did crack open, but he got the other one, and that was virtually his dinner. A Purple Blackbird came hopping in the door now. "Will, now, thayer's Jack. Whayer hev ye been? I thought ye wuz gone fur good. Shure Oi saved him from a murtherin' gunner," she explained.
It's ayther in the flower or in the root, so when the flower is thayer the root's no more good than an ould straw. Ye hes to Hunt fur it in spring or in fall, just when the divil himself wouldn't know whayer to find it. "An' fwhat hev ye thayer? Good land! if it ain't Skunk's Cabbage! Ye sure come up by the Bend. That's the on'y place whayer that grows."
And again her finger was employed, this time to scrape off an incrustation of unhappy flies that had died, like Clarence, in their favourite beverage. "Thayer, Yan, now ate hearty, all av it, an' welcome. It does me good to see ye ate thayer's lots more whayer that come from," though it was obvious that she had put her all upon the table. Poor Yan was in trouble.
She lifted the cover and exclaimed: "Well, Oi niver!" Then going to the door she fished out with her fingers a dead mouse and threw it out, remarking placidly, "Oi've wondered whayer the little divil wuz. Oi ain't sane him this two wakes, an' me a-thinkin' it wuz Tom ate him. May Oi be furgiven the onjustice av it. Consarn them flies! That cover niver did fit."
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