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"I thought yer allers lived in this country." "Not always, or how could I be an Irishman? God plaise I may niver live here long enough to forgit owld Ireland, the Gim of the Sea. What's the matter with yees now?" The trapper having wandered a few yards from the camp-fire, had paused suddenly and stood gazing at the ground. Teddy was obliged to repeat his question.
"Yees, your honour," said the man, scratching his head, "I think it be; they are my /ees/, and G, and D, sure enough." "And do you know the purport of the will you signed?" "Anan!" "I mean, do you know to whom Sir William stop, Mr. Oswald, suffer the man to answer me to whom Sir William left his property?"
As we stood dubiously at the door there was a padding of bare feet in the roadway, and a very small boy with a red head, dressed in a long flannel frock of a rich madder shade fluttered past us into the shop. "Me dada says let yees be hurrying!" he gasped, between spasms of what was obviously whooping-cough. "Sweeny's case is comin' on!"
"What, Biddy? let us hear it." "Why, that you could be mane an' shabby! enough to come as a sarvint to ate the bread of the man that ruined yees!" "Biddy," replied Flanagan, "I'm glad! you've said it; but do you think that I have so bad a heart as too keep revinge in against an inimy? How could I go to my knees at night, if I no, Biddy, we must be Christians.
We used to take them out separately, and I used to be greatly amused at the orders he would give. We commenced by drilling the men in the sabre exercise, and I was watching him the first day. When he got his men into line, and after having them take the proper distance, he gave the command something like this: "Attention, min! Now I am going to larn yees how to draw sabre.
"Yees; certingly I remember it he, he, he! But I kim a better trick then thet on the Orleens people 'bout five yeer ago jest 'fore I jined the Rangers." "Fwhat was it, shure?" "We ell, ye see, I wan't allers es poor es I'm now. I hed a pertnership in a bit o' a schooner, es used to trade 'tween Bosting an' Orleens, an' we used to load her wi' all sorts o' notions, to sell to the Orleens folk.
"And what did he say?" "'E said that was only your nonsense, sir, and that I'd better have enough for one to begin with; and then 'e asked me if I'd been eating green apples again." "And you told him?" "Yees, sir, I told 'im I'd 'ad a few, and 'e said it served me right, and that 'e 'oped it would be a warning to me. And then 'e put something fizzy in a glass and told me to drink it."
I didn't rightly hear what she said; but I was so taken with her pretty face that I couldn't help axin' if the little thing was his'n. `Yees, says he for he was a Mexican, and couldn't come round the English lingo `she me darter. I found the man was goin' to catch a wild horse, so, says I, `I'll go with ye, an', says he, `come 'long, so away we went, slappin' over the plains at a great rate, him and me, and a Yankee, a friend o' his and three or four servants, after a drove o' wild horses that had been seen that mornin' near the house.
All listened and heard but a short distance away: "Begorrah, Teddy, it's yerself that's entitled to a wee bit of rist, as yees have been on a mighty long tramp, and hasn't diskivered anything but a country that is big enough to hide the Atlantic ocean in, wid Ireland on its bosom as a jewel. The chances are small of yees iver gitting another glimpse of heaven that is, of Miss Cora's face.
"Don't you notice any difference in the atmosphere, Cora?" "Yes; there is a very perceptible change." "If this illigant fire only keeps up, I'm thinking there'll be a considerable difference afore long. The ways yees be twisting and doubling them hands, as if ye had hold of some delightsome soap, spaaks that yees have already discovered a difference.
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