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'Tis not f'r lack iv opportunities I'm here alone, I tell ye that me bucko, f'r th' time was whin th' sound iv me feet'd brings more heads to th' windies iv Ar-rchey r-road thin'd bob up to see ye'er fun'ral go by. An' that's manny a wan." "Ah, well," said Mr. Hennessy, "I was but jokin' ye."
"It has old air in it," Pearl said, "and it will give me the fever." Mrs. Motherwell glared at the little girl. She forgot all about the frying pan. "Good gracious!" she said. "It's a queer thing if hired help are going to dictate where they are going to sleep. Maybe you'd like a bed set up for you in the parlour!" "Not if the windies ain't open," Pearl declared stoutly.
And he could imitate animals, and as you say, he was probably a ventriloquist. And he was that active and strong he could get into the house through one of the windies, just like a great monkey. Now what's the history of that man?" "Pretty wild, I guess." "Ah, but one can say more than that, sir. He was not an ordinary Englishman or Scotchman.
And with no more clothing on than is provided for in the statutes, sitting in all the windies, with a cool growler in every one, and your feet out in the air, and the Rosenstein girls singing on the fire-escape of the sixth floor, and Patsy Rourke's flute going in the eighth, and the ladies calling each other synonyms out the windie, and now and then a breeze sailing in over Mister Depew's Central I tell you the Beersheba Flats was a summer resort that made the Catskills look like a hole in the ground.
In a few years he built himself a fine castle, with three hundred and sixty-four windies in it, and he would have added another, to make one for every day in the year, only that would be equal to the number in the King's palace, and the Lord of the Black Rod would be sent to take his head off, it being high thrason for a subject to have as many windies in his house as the king.
Again, "Paddy Cummisky's wife tuck ill of a young one, an' Phelim was sent for to bring the midwife; but afore he kem to Paddy's, or hard o' the thing at all, the prisoner, airly in the night, comin' to sit awhile wid Paddy, went for the midwife instead o' Phelim, an' thin they sot up an' had a sup in regard of the 'casion; an' the prisoner never left them at all that night until the next mornin'. An' by the same token, he remimbered Paddy Cummisky barrin' the door, an' shuttin' the windies, bekase it's not lucky to have them open, for fraid that the fairies 'ud throw their pishthrogues upon the young one, an' it not christened."
'Sure they had all their windies shut up, says he, 'and the doors too, an' ne'er a sign of a fly at all in it when I did get in, he says; 'an' the whole place that clane, an' sarvants running about, till I couldn't so much as find a corner to spin my web, says he. 'Och, dear, says the Gout, 'that's a poor case entirely; what sort of a place was it at all, an' what were they doin' in it?
"He likit fresh air outside fine but never kept his windies open much unless the weather was vera propitious." "Then," said Ned, "why should Sir Reginald have opened the window of his own accord to a stranger at the dead of night?" "Exactly!" said Mr. Rattar. "Thing seems absurd. He'd never do it." "That's my own opinion likewise, sir," put in Bisset.
They'll try those two roads first, and we must get them well barricaded in time. But mind, if there's a good few o' them, it'll be an easy job to batter in the front door or the windies, so we maun be ready for that." He told off a fatigue party the Princess, Sir Archie, and McGuffog to help in moving furniture to the several doors.
"I'm not asleep; I'm not dhramin'," said he, rubbing his eyes, and stamping slightly on the pavement, to assure himself that he was wide awake. "It is a quare business, whatever it is; an' it's not alone that, but everything about town looks strange to me. There's Tresham's house new painted, bedad, an' them flowers in the windies!
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