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"About this country of Ameriky," he replied. "He reckoned it would soon have to cut loose from England, and him knowing so much about England I used ter believe him. He allowed there 'ud be bloody battles before it happened, but he held that the country had grown up and couldn't be kept much longer in short clothes.
He was a very fluent fellow, and as soon as we were within hailing distance, cried out "Ah, my fine sailors, from Ameriky, ain't ye, my beautiful sailors?" And concluded by calling upon; us to stop and heave a rope.
Price, and Laura and myself were left looking at each other. "Delphiny!" said Laura. "Ameriky!" said I. "Well, it's over now. If you had happened to be Mrs. Conant's daughter, you know, your name would have been Keren-happuch!" "On the whole, I am glad it wasn't in church," said I. Mr. Sampson returned before we had finished talking of that. And then Laura, said, suddenly,
"Faix, a fellow on deck was telling me a nate story the day," said Mike to Biddy Bogan, by way of kindly amusement. "Says he to me, 'Mike, says he, 'did ye ever hear of wan Pathrick O'Brien that heard some bla'guard tell how in Ameriky you picked up money in the streets? 'No, says I. 'He wint ashore in a place, says he, 'and he walked along and he come to a sign on a wall.
"I don't know but I might remember, on a pinch, sir; though, to own the truth, my memory is none of the most desperate best." "Well, then where was it? Recollect that the life of your late friend, Raoul Yvard, may depend on your answer." "I want to know! Well, this Europe is a curious part of the world, as all must admit that come from Ameriky.
"It was down on the coast o' South Ameriky that this here thing happened, but I never had it put in the log 'cause the old man wasn't along an' nothin' went into it that he didn't see hisself; but it's just as true, I'm giving you my word " "As the one about the whale!" roared Dick. "Go on, Ben."
"I've some gineral idees of law," answered Ithuel, passing his hand over his queue to make sure it was right, "for we all do a little at that in Ameriky. I practised some myself, when a young man, though it was only afore a justice-peace. We used to hold that a witness needn't answer ag'in himself." "Is it, then, on account of criminating yourself that you answer thus vaguely?"
Tom was possessed after that same gal, and it only made him the more determined when he found that Kitty didn't like him at all. He towld the boys he was bound to have her, and any one who said he wasn't would get his head broke. "There was a little orphan girl, whose father had gone to Ameriky and whose mother was dead, that was found one night, years before, in front of old Mrs. McGuire's door.
Why in tarnation didn't you strike plump for here instead of rubbin' yourself down the whole coast of South Ameriky?" "Bucky, you don't understand the situation properly," objected Frawley, without varying the level tone of his voice. "Supposing it had been a bloomin' corporation had sent me ? that's what I'd have done. But it's the government this time Her Majesty's government!
It was niver that I staid there a night coorting the same that she didn't smash her shillaleh to smithereens over me head. Do yees obsarve that? asked Mickey, removing his hat, and displaying a scar that extended half way across his head. 'I don't see how any one can help seeing that. 'Well, that was the parting salute of Bridget, as I started for Ameriky.
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