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Supposin' waan av the bosses should be comin' along now?" and at the same time he interposed his great bulk between the two. Rourke, quieted some by this interruption but still sputtering with rage and disgrace, shouted, "Lookit me coat! Lookit what he done to me coat! See what he done to me coat! Man alive, d'ye think I'm goin' to stand fer the likes av that?
His expression changed completely and he began to swell, as was customary with him when he was angry, as though suffering from an internal eruption of some kind. "The bla'guard!" I heard him mutter. "Now, be gob, what'll that felly be waantin'?" and then as the stranger drew nearer, "Who was it tould him I was here? Maybe some waan at the ahffice."
I know them aall, every waan av thim, an' their thricks. It's naht foolin' me they'll be. But, me b'y," he added instructively, "it's a fine job ye'll have runnin' down to the ahffice gettin' their time." "You don't mean to say that you're going to discharge them, Rourke, do you?" I asked. "Shewer!" he exclaimed authoritatively. "Why shouldn't I? They're jist the same as other min.
"But why do you call them negroes, Rourke?" I asked after a time. "They're not black." "Well, bedad, they're not white, that's waan thing shewer," he added. "Aany man can tell that be lookin' at thim." I had to smile. It was so dogmatic and unreasoning. "Very well, then, they're black," I said, and we left the matter.
They're aall pore, crapin' creatures. If it wasn't fer the railroad bein' against the union I wouldn't have thim at aall, and besides," he added thoughtfully, and with a keen show of feeling for their point of view, "they have a right to do as they pl'ase. Shewer, it's no common workmen they arre. They can lay their eight hundred bricks a day, if they will, an' no advice from any waan.
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