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"Arrah! ye've the hoith o' livin' here!" cried Barney, smacking his lips as he held out his plate for another supply of a species of meat which resembled chicken in tenderness and flavour. "What sort o' bird or baste may that be, now, av' I may ask ye, Mister what's yer name?" "My name is Carlos," replied the hermit, gravely; "and this is the flesh of the Armadillo."
"She's not forty, any way; and won't be yet for five years and more; and, as I hope for glory, John though I know you won't believe me I wouldn't marry her av' she'd all Sim Lynch's ill-gotten property, instead of only half, av' I wasn't really fond of her, and av' I didn't think I'd make her a good husband." "You didn't tell mother what you're afther, did you?" "Sorrow a word!
"'Tis a sinful exthravagance! a temptin' av Providence!" he exclaimed. "Plates! an' faaks! an' dishes! an' sacers! did ivver anny wan see the loike? F'what do ye expict nixt? Kid gloves to work in, maybe! That ivver I'd see the day whan sich degrading emblems av the ould superstitions of sassiety was brought into the bush! Ough!" So much and more the O'Gaygun.
Hae ye never heard o' that sang?" enquired Watt. "O yes, I forgot," said Ruby, recovering himself in some confusion. "I know the song I I was thinking of something of " "The girl ye left behind ye, av coorse," put in O'Connor, with a wink. "Come, strike up!" cried the men.
'Minds me 'f that last ditch people talk of dyin' in. Must say I'd rather be in the trough 'f the sea." "An' what kind av a trough is that?" inquired Sweeny, inquisitive even in his dumps. "It's the trough where they feed the niggers out to the sharks." "Faix, an' I'd loike to see it at feedin' time," answered Sweeny with a feeble chuckle.
After a brief examination of the trouble McLean gave a half dozen hurried orders; then turned to the boy beside him and jerked one thumb over his shoulder. "Run down to the smithy shop, lad," he directed, "an' tell the smith that I'll be wantin' a strip av str-rap iron, two feet in lingth, av quarter inch stuff and three-quarters av an inch wide."
The crew it was a tradin' vessel, and there was tin o' them all got safe ashore. They were taken prisoners as they landed, by a lot o' Ayrabs. Only one av the tin got home to tell the tale; and he wouldn't a 'ad a chance but for a Jew merchant at Mogador that found he 'ad rich relations as 'ud pay well to ransom him.
Judy an' her dam will hould me for a promust man, an' Dinah will give me the go, an' I desarve ut. I will go an' get dhrunk, sez I, 'an' forget about ut, for 'tis plain I'm not a marrin' man. "On my way to canteen I ran against Lascelles, color-sergeant that was av E Comp'ny, a hard, hard man, wid a torment av a wife.
"I insist upon it, Heller. I tell ye I won't ate raw fishes to convart a continent av haythins, much less a little bit island av 'um." The fish being promptly broiled on the coals of the altar, were handed up to Father Higgins on a large leaf, together with one of the cocoa-nuts and a bread-fruit.
"Tchkk!" he clucked in gentle distaste "In uniform . . . an' just afther comin' off the thrain! . . . th' like av that now 'tis 'tis scandh'lus! . . ." Suddenly Redmond shivered, and his mirth died within him. The air seemed to have become charged with a tense, ominous something that filled him with a great dread of what? he knew not.
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