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Updated: June 14, 2025
"That's what I want to know, sir. I know what he'll say to me. He'll say, Look here, my lad, you were coxswain; I want to know what you have done with my gig." "Ah, the boat!" said Rodd. "Do any of you know what's become of the boat?" "I don't," said Briggs. "Oh, she's half-way to South Ameriky by this time, sir," said Joe, "and I shall get all the credit of having lost her."
Maryann, darting a look of mingled defiance and triumph at Richards, who became more than ever devoted to the toast and bacon, proceeded "Well, as I was a-sayin', I 'eard Mrs Osten say to Master Will that his uncle Edward as was a scape somethin' or other had died an' left a small estate behind the Rocky Mountains in Ameriky or Afriky, I aint sure which." "Ameriky, my dear," observed Larry.
"To think," said Maryann, with a quiet laugh, as she handed a cup of tea to Bunco "to think that I should ever come for to sit at tea with a live red Indian from Ameriky not that he's red either, for I'm sure that hany one with eyes in their 'ead could see that he's only brown." "Ah, my dear, that's 'cause he's changed colour," said Larry, pushing in his cup for more tea.
There ain't much dirt we haven't kicked up! Asia, Africa a regular Cook's tour through Europe, North and South Ameriky. And what seas, Bub!" His voice faltered. The drops of sweat stood thickly on his forehead; but he pulled himself together gamely. "Do you remember the Sea of Japan with its funny little toy junks? Man, we've beaten out Columbus, Jools Verne, and the rest of them hollow, Bub!"
I asked. "Her mon," explained Bell, "had a cousin oot in Ameriky as fowks allays said wes gey rich. But he niver so much as sent a word to Donal' for years, till juist aboot a week afore the puir mon met wi' his accident, ye ken.
"Call the docthor, is it? God give you sinse! Sure the docthors is only a flock of omadhauns." "Is it your daughter she is, ma'am?" "She's from Ameriky, the poor mischancy crathur." "Give her a toothful of whisky, your ladyship. Sure it's nayther bite nor sup she's had the morn, and belike she's as impty as a quarry-hole."
Divil burn me if I thinks the likes of him is to be found in all Ameriky, full as it is of Injins and saucy fellies! Well, now, I suppose, sarjeant, ye've set me down as sin riding off with Misther Joel and his likes, if ye was to open yer heart, and spake yer thrue mind?" "You have been marked for a deserter, O'Hearn, and one, too, that deserted from post." "Post!
They're afraid they're goin' to drop off on the other side uv the world an' they go to Chris an' say: 'Thar ain't no sech continent ez Ameriky an' we ain't goin' to discover it. We're goin' to turn right 'round an' go straight back to Spain. "Chris says in the knowin'est manner like a father talkin' to his child. 'Thar is sech a continent ez Ameriky, an' it's a big one, too.
"Ye needna look soor nor cock yir nose in the air, for you an' me are auld freends, and yir puir granny wes na mair anxious aboot ye than a' wes. "A'm feared that laddie o' Bell's 'ill kill himsel' oot in Ameriky' were ma verra words tae Hillocks here; 'he 'ill be slavin' his flesh aff his banes tae mak a fortune and keep her comfortable'
T' other crowd was headed by a slim feller all tricked up in velvet and silver braid and red sash; called himself Don José Pacheco, and claimed to own all Ameriky from the ocean over there, back to the Allegheny Mountains, near as I could make out. I don't talk that kinda talk much; but I been thinkin' mebby I better get m' tongue split, so I can.
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