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I wish I had him here." He grew grave again. "I am obliged to you, sir. Who's this, Ames?" "It is a priest, sir, that's much looked up to. He says he has a collection of maps Father Tierney, will you speak to the general?" "Faith, and that I will, my son!" said Father Tierney. "Good avenin', general, and the best of fortunes!" "Good evening, Father. What has your collection to do with it?"
'I don't know th' names iv ye; but I'll call ye all Casey, f'r short, he says. 'Put ye'er bokays in th' hammick, he says, 'an' return to Punch, he says; 'an' freeze somethin' f'r me, he says, 'f'r me thrawt is parched with th' labors iv th' day, he says. Th' r-rest iv th' avenin' was spint in dancin, music, an' boat-r-ridin'; an' an inj'yable time was had.
I tell ye I used to go out in th' avenin' an' putt me mashie like hell-an'-all, till I was knowed fr'm wan end iv th' county to th' other as th' champeen putter. I putted two men fr'm Roscommon in wan day, an' they had to be took home on a dure. "In America th' ga-ame is played more ginteel, an' is more like cigareet-smokin', though less unhealthy f'r th' lungs.
Wan long, wan short. There ar-re hours in th' avenin' that pass between two ticks iv th' clock; there ar-re hours in th' arly mornin' whin a man can't sleep that Methusalah's age cud stretch in. Clocks ar-re habichool liars, an' so ar-re scales. As soon as annything gets good enough to weigh ye can't weigh it. Scales ar-re f'r th' other fellow.
I'd zee her sometimes of an avenin' when I was bringin' up the calves; ther' she'd stand in th' orchard, under the big apple tree, lukin' straight before 'er. 'Well, I used t'think, 'I dunno what 'tes that's the matter wi' yu, but yu'm lukin' pittiful, that yu be!" The old man refit his pipe, and sucked at it reflectively. "Yes?" said Ashurst.
Nearly all the rest of the party laughed heartily. At this point the head of Felix dropped down a foot through the skylight over the centre of the room. He had made his way to the upper deck, and stationed himself where he could see and hear all that passed in the apartment. "Good-mahrnin' to ye's all this foine avenin'!" he shouted. "Don't ye's make a row, Aunty.
The officer grunted and stepped backward; then he came on, raising his night-stick. "Why, it's it's McCarthy!" exclaimed Cleggett, who had also sprung back, as the light fell on the other's face. "Mr. Cleggett, by the powers!" said the officer, pausing and lowering his lifted club. "Are ye soused, man? Or is it your way of sayin' good avenin' to your frinds?" Cleggett smiled.
It was the Froiday two wakes afther you left, I became un'asy loike along about nine o'clock in the avenin', and I fought I'd come around here and see if everything was sthraight. Me wife sez ut's foolish of me, sorr, and I sez maybe so, but I can't get ut out o' me head thot somet'ing's wrong. "'Ye locked everything up safe whin ye left? sez she. "'I always does, sez I.
"Well, yes," said Butler, draining off the remainder of a brandy and soda that had been prepared for him. "One thing. You haven't seen an avenin' paper, have you?" "No, I haven't," said Mollenhauer, straightening up. "Is there one out? What's the trouble anyhow?" "Nothing except Chicago's burning, and it looks as though we'd have a little money-storm here in the morning." "You don't say!
To march well, a man's feet have to be mates; an', if he has two left feet both runnin' sideways, he ought to have interference boots to keep him fr'm settin' fire to his knees. Whin a man walks as if he expected to lave a leg stuck in th' sthreet behind him, he has th' gait proper f'r half-past six o'clock th' avenin' before pay-day.
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