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But devil a trace can I see!" "Now, look here," St. Piran said; "the church was there, right enough." "That's a true word," spoke up an old man, "for I mind it well. An elegant tower it had, an' a shingle roof." "Spake up, now," said the saint, glaring around; "fwich av ye's gone an' misbestowed me parush church?
But he stood for a minute or two looking down with whimsical respect on the dead form of the carcajou. "Y' ain't nawthin' but a thief an' stinkin' Glutton," he muttered presently, "an' the whole kit an' bilin' of ye's got to be wiped out! But, when it comes to grit, clean through, I takes off my cap to ye!"
The king has ae braw croun o' white an black fedders, an' I'se reckon ye's never seen a guse like that ava' hae ye now?" he asked, anxiously. "I have never seen any such bird," said La Salle; "but why do you care so much about shooting this rare bird?" "Weel, I'll tell ye, sin ye were kin' till me, an' did na keep the guse fra' me.
"Are ye's thryin' to shake the screw out of her?" inquired the Milesian, who could talk as good English as his crony, the owner, but who occasionally made use of the brogue to prevent him from forgetting his mother tongue, as he put it, though he was born in the United States. "Don't ye's do it; for sure, you will want it 'fore we get to Bombay."
Oi've not been introjuced to 'm." "Are you going among elephants, Flix, and don't know what a pachyderm is?" demanded Scott. "Oi see, it's the elephant, and ye's call him so bekase he carries his pack on his bachk; and 'pon me worrud that's the roight place to carry it." "I wonder if we are to have any hunting out here where we are going," suggested Scott. "How is it, Louis?
He succeeded in disengaging himself from his assailants, and, squaring himself off, said, defiantly: "Dom yer cowardly heyes; jest come hat me one hat a time, hand hI'll wollop the 'ole gang uv ye's." One of our Sergeants styled himself proudly "a Chicago rough," and was as vain of his pugilistic abilities as a small boy is of a father who plays in the band.
I never heard the song before." "No more you did. And I wish I could see the lad that wrote that song, livin' or dead. If one of ye's will tell me about your tobogan rides, I'll unfold about Farcalladen Rise." Prince Levis passed the liquor. Pretty Pierre, seated on a candle-box, with a glass in his delicate fingers, said: "Eh, well, the Honourable has much language.
Well, I got off me horse and stharted to follow the thrack, and whin I got to that bunch of brush the dhurty rid divils sprang out on me like a pair of hounds, tied me hands and fate, and was tryin' to burn me aloive whin ye's came up." "Well, Mike," said I, holding up the scalp of the Indian we had killed, "here is one Indian that will not bother you again, but be more careful next time."
"Begad, he's a bute," said the officer, folding his arms over his ample stomach and gazing with mirthful curiosity at the bum. "Now, ye's fellies must not interfere with men as wants to make an honest living let th' ingineer go t' 'is ingine," and he gave Billy a shove that sent him into the arms of the waiting foreman.
If it were only for her sake, I wish he would come, and then at least I should know how much I was abased in his eyes. 'Then proudly, proudly up she rose, Tho' the tear was in her e'e, "Whate'er ye say, think what ye may, Ye's get na word frae me!" SCOTCH BALLAD. It was not merely that Margaret was known to Mr.
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