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"`Don't lose yersilf! Faix, Master Frank, ye're free an' aisy. Arrah now, Bryan dear, don't lose yersilf; you that's crossed the salt saes, an' followed the Red Injins to the prairie, and hunted in the Rocky Mountains, and found yer way to Ungava not to mintion havin' comed oraginally from ould Ireland which ov itsilf secures ye agin mistakes of every kind whatsumdiver. Lose yersilf!
A little bit of everything that made Patsy was wrapped in the smile she gave the man in the Balmacaan coat standing by the wheel-guard of the car before the town post-office, a hand on the front seat. "Maybe ye're not knowing it, but it's a rare good day for us both. If you'll only take me for a spin in your car I'll tell you what brings me and who I am if you haven't that guessed already."
Hodder, with unconscious fixity, looked into his assistant's honest face. He had an exasperating notion that McCrae might have said more, if he would. "Haven't you a theory?" "Try yourself," said McCrae. His manner was abrupt, yet oddly enough, not ungracious. "Don't think I'm criticizing," said the rector, quickly. "I know well ye're not." "I've been trying to learn.
"Come, some, Bob!" cried several of the bigger boys, "don't be sulky, man; shake hands and be friends. Martin has licked you this time, and you'll lick him next time, no doubt, and that's all about it." "Arrah, then, ye're out there, intirely.
"Oh, great Scott, isn't it possible to get such a simple thing through your head? Now look here let me illustrate. We pay four cents for a woman's stuff gown, you pay 8.4.0, which is four mills more than double. What do you allow a laboring woman who works on a farm?" "Two mills a day." "Very good; we allow but half as much; we pay her only a tenth of a cent a day; and " "Again ye're conf "
Just as I had succeeded in attaining the proper degree of mental abstraction with which it is necessary to contemplate Niagara, a ragged drosky-driver came up, "Yer honour, may be ye're in want of a carriage? I'll take ye the whole round Goat Island, Whirlpool, and Deil's Hole for the matter of four dollars."
"'Tain't so bad as it might be ye're kind o' lucky a'ter all is said an' done," he remarked as he covered the woman and the child. The wounded warrior and the old men were not to be found. They had sneaked away into the bush. Jack and Solomon looked about and the latter called but got no answer. "They're skeered cl'ar down to the toe nails," said Solomon. "They couldn't stan' it here.
But now we know phy ye're here. We're pr-roud ye're wan av us." "What do you mean you know why I am here? I am here because I needed a job, and Appleton hired me." "Sure, lad. But, ye moind th' picture in yer pocket. 'Twas a woman." "But " "'Tis none av our business, an' 'tis nayther here nor there. Av there's a woman at th' bottom av ut, 'tis rayson enough phwativer happens." Bill laughed.
Ye're smart enough at any rate for the job; and, besides, there's no one else that can get through the port. Ye can go!"
I was just shaping to hit it right that time when you butted in, you " The minstrels melted away. The bearded man patted the fermenting monarch paternally on the shoulder. "Ma mannie," he said, "ye may no' be a gowfer yet, but hoots! ye're learning the language fine!" King Merolchazzar's fury died away.
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