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Didn't he tell you what's in it?" "The gorsoon's right enough," replied Darby. "I got the horn from Barny Dalton a couple o' days agone; 'twas whiskey he had in it, an' it smells of it sure enough, an' will, indeed, for some time longer. Och! och! the heavens be praised, I've made a good dinner! May they never know want that gave it to me! Oxis Doxis Glorioxis Amin!" + + +
By mid-July she was established in the most fashionable of the barny, wooden hotels at the resort and prepared to put herself in touch with the summer society. One of the first persons she met was a Mrs. Thornton from St. Louis, a pleasant, ladylike young married woman, who had a cottage near by and took her meals at the hotel.
"Why, you're mighty ignorant intirely," said Barny; "why, scalpeens is pickled mackerel." "Then you must give us some, for we have been out of everything eatable these three days; and even pickled fish is better than nothing."
"An' a bitter morsel you'd be," replied the younger, with a flashing glance "divil a more so. Here am I, sittin', or running out an' in, these two hours, when I ought to be at the dance in Kilnahushogue, before I go to Barny Gormly's wake; for I promised to be at both. Why didn't you come home in time?" "Bekaise, achora, it wasn't agreeable to me to do so.
Thus it was that Barny continued most marvellous accounts of the ship and the captain to his companions, and by keeping their attention so engaged, prevented their being too inquisitive as to their own immediate concerns, and for two days more Barny and the hooker held on their respective courses undeviatingly.
"O Gog's blakey!" said Barny, "what'll I do now, at all at all?" The captain ordered Barny on deck, as he wished to have some conversation with him on what he, very naturally, considered a most extraordinary adventure. Heaven help the captain! he knew little of Irishmen, or he would not have been so astonished. Barny made his appearance.
"Why, mother," said one of her daughters "how could Barny Dhal, a blind man, see anybody?" Alley herself laughed at her blunder, but wittily replied, "Faith, avourneen, maybe he can often see as nately through his ear as you could do wid your eyes open; sure they say he can hear the grass growin'."
Wherever Barny came there was mirth, and a disposition to be pleased, so that his jokes always told. "Musha, the sorra pare you, Barny," said one of the girls; "but there's no bein' up to you, good or bad." "The sorra pair me, is it? faix, Nancy, you'll soon be paired yourself wid some one, avourneen.
In four days more, however, the provisions in the hooker began to fail, and they were obliged to have recourse to the scalpeens for sustenance, and Barny then got seriously uneasy at the length of the voyage, and the likely greater length, for anything he could see to the contrary; and, urged at last by his own alarms and those of his companions, he was enabled, as the wind was light, to gain on the ship, and when he found himself alongside he demanded a parley with the captain.
In fact, Barney, besides being a fiddler, was a senachie of the first water; could tell a story, or trace a genealogy as well as any man living, and draw the long bow in either capacity much better than he could in the practice of his more legitimate profession. "Well, here she is, Barny, to the fore," said the aforesaid arch girl, "an' now give us a tune."
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