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I'm an old soldier, and I wouldn't be afther sayin' `run' from an enemy if there was a chance of driving him back; but still the best thing we can do is to beat a retreat in time." "I believe that Tim's advice is good," observed Carlos. "I am sure it is," I added. "If we were to stop here and try to defend ourselves, the Indians would starve us out, at all events. What do you say, Lejoillie?"
"Three times a week," answered Molly, lying. "The ladies upstairs," said La Fleur, "have been accustomed to fresh rolls every morning for their breakfast." "An' afther this, they shall have 'em," said Molly, "Sundays an' weekday, an' sorry I am that I didn't know before that they was used to have 'em." "How do you make your coffee?" asked La Fleur. Molly looked at her hesitatingly.
Sew me up an' plug me lung, an' be quick about it, Docthor." When Andrew Daney came, summoned by telephone, Dirty Dan ordered all others from the room, and Daney saw that the door was closed tightly after them. Then he bent over Dirty Dan. "Where's Donald?" he demanded. "That's neither here nor there, sir," Mr. O'Leary replied evasively. "He's safe, an' never knew they were afther him.
"Me lady," continued the tinker, reverentially but firmly, "'twas afther he was run by thim dogs yestherday, and 'twas your ladyship's dog that finished him. He tore the throat out of him under the bed!" He pointed an accusing forefinger at Bismarck, whose lambent eyes of terror glowed from beneath the valance of the sofa. "Nonsense!
"Sure, 'tis no compliment you've paid me, sor, thinkin' I'll be afther needin' an ax to take that fella's measure," he protested. "Your job is to keep those other animals off me while I take his measure," The Laird corrected him. Without an instant's hesitation Dirty Dan swung his ax and charged the crowd. "Gower that, ye vagabones," he screeched.
Crook tould thim that he'd blow the hide off any man that misconducted himself; but, seeing that ut was the first time the Tyrone had iver seen their dead, I do not wondher they were on the sharp. 'Tis a shameful sight! Whin I first saw ut I wud niver ha' given quarter to any man north of the Khaibar no, nor woman either, for the women used to come out afther dhark Auggrh!
Weren't we afther givin' a penny to the wee one yondther for the home?" and Bridget pointed a commanding finger toward the door. Everybody looked. There on the threshold stood the widow of the Richest Trustee. "What do you mean, dear? How could you have given her a penny?" Margaret MacLean asked it in bewilderment. "'Twas all the doin's o' the primrose ring."
"Oi'll show ye afther supper, ye damned shpalpeen, how much av her got away!" shouted Irish, who waited for Bill to remove the evidence of his fight before piloting him to the grub-shack. A single table of rough lumber covered with brown oilcoth extended the full length of the center of the room.
Let me loose and Oi'll be afther lavin' ye's. Oi'll do it be the boots that hung on Chatham's Hill. I do belave they are goin' to burn me alive. O, ye bloody haythens; let me loose and Oi'll fight the pair of ye's if ye's have got me pistols." The Indians by this time had the fire started, but Mike still retained his nerve, cussing the red fiends by all the powers in the Irish vocabulary.
"Ah, Wattles, divil fear ye but yer heart is in the right place, afther all," cried the doctor, delighted at the proposed reconciliation. I told Fred the request of his adversary, and without a moment's hesitation he joined the group, and extended his hand to the wounded man. "You have got the best of me, sir," Wattles said, faintly, his pain beginning to grow excessive.
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