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She did not perceive the stranger at first; but how she started when the Mulligan loomed upon her. "Heavenlee enchanthress!" says Mulligan, "don't floy at the approach of the humblest of your sleeves! Reshewm your pleece at that insthrument, which weeps harmonious, or smoils melojious, as you charrum it! Are you acqueented with the Oirish Melodies?
''Tis a mel-odjious insthrument, says she. 'I cud sit here be the hour an' listen to Bootoven and Choochooski, she says. "'What did thim write? says Cassidy. 'Chunes, says Donahue, 'chunes: Molly, he says, 'fetch 'er th' wallop to make th' gintlemen feel good, he says. 'What 'll it be, la-ads? 'D'ye know "Down be th' Tan-yard Side"? says Slavin. 'No, says Molly.
'I had it right befure I come up, he says, 'but I missed me holt whin th' crowd come. Me heart's broke, he says. 'Th' cornet's not ye'er insthrument, says Dorsey. 'Ye shud thry to play th' base dhrum. It's asier." "Is that all that's going on?" asked Mr. McKenna. "That an' th' death iv wan iv Hinnissy's goats, Marguerite. No, no, not that wan. That's Odalia. Th' wan with th' brown spots.
Them's nothing but the accidents of the cork that you're looking at and handling; but, as I tould you afore, the real cork's dhrew and is here prisint on the end ov this nate little insthrument, and it was the noise I made in dhrawing it, and nothing else, that you mistook for the sound ov the pogue." You know there was no conthravening what he said; and the Pope couldn't openly deny it.
"Och divil a thing but smoke was in the insthrument, bad luck to it, however sir, as ye say ye carry the tabakky about wid ye, take a loan o' the pipe an' welcome, for 'twould never be Pat Crowley, 'ud sit down with that in his pocket, that could make another man happy, and him not wantin' it nayther." The hint had the desired affect.
A Jap'nese sojer can march three hundhred miles a day an' subsist on a small piece iv chewin' gum. Their ar-rmy have arrived at such a perfection at th' diffycult manoover known as th' goose step that they have made this awful insthrument iv carnage th' terror iv th' armies iv Europe. As cav'lrymen they ar-re unexcelled.
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