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Updated: June 7, 2025
And last winter season but one there came a rush. And Isaac must be working six days a week and he must be working fourteen hours a day and, more'n that, he must be doing his bastes overtime, two hours one time, and an hour or so, perhaps, another; anyway, they made it up to half a day eight hours and more in the week. You know how they reckon it." He stopped, grinning feebly.
The wood was too dense and the ground too uneven to permit him to ride at a faster gait than a walk, but long before the appointed hour was up, he rejoined his friends, who were as surprised as pleased at his prompt reappearance. "But where are the bastes that ye promised to furnish us?" inquired Mickey, who had very little relish for the prospect of walking any portion of the distance homeward.
"I left the poor bird on a branch fast asleep when those bastes of Indians sent us off into the water in such a hurry, and never a bit did I think of her till now. I am just as bad as you are, Kallolo; for, sure, hadn't I charge of the bird, till she flew out of my thoughts altogether?" "At all events, here she comes back to us again!" I exclaimed.
"Well, when she goes there she'll be able to see her way, and sure that'll be one comfort," replied his companion; "but in the mane time, if anything happens the cows poor bastes we'll know the rason of it."
"You are to be holding the plough in that fallow, outside the paddock." The master went over about nine o'clock to see what kind of a ploughman was Jack, and what did he see but the little boy driving the bastes, and the sock and coulter of the plough skimming along the sod, and Jack pulling ding-dong again' the horses. "What are you doing, you contrary thief?" said the master.
"The party saw nothing of the team or its owner until the dangerous road led into a narrow but deep ravine, at whose bottom an ill-made causeway led across a dangerous slough. "'Holy Virgin, boys, but he's been upset! There's the cart across the road, and one of the bastes in the wather; but where's the masther at all? Come on, b'ys; we'll thry and save the garrons any way.
It was evident that Patrick was tired of his task: for they had not made much progress in their Homeric supper, before he once more returned to the subject. "But shure now, comrayde! we moight manage widout the borra seein' as we've got into the buffalos' counthry. Aren't them bastes as aizy to kill as tame cows? Shure we'd niver be widout mate as long as our powder lasts?"
"Sure, if Master would let me, I'd start off at once by meself, an' not care for the Zulus, or lions, or other bastes in the way, and soon bring him back safe an' sound in me arms," she exclaimed in her enthusiasm. "You would find it a more difficult task than you suppose, Biddy, to make your way all alone through the wilds," said Percy.
"These bastes have as many lives as a cat; and maybe he would have come to again, and taken to ateing us instead of our ateing him, as I hope we will be afther doing before long." Whether or not the last thrust was necessary I do not know, but the bear ceased struggling; and Mike, springing on the body, exclaimed "He's dead enough now, anyhow!
He would have risen to fly, only he dared not stand up. The children laughed and danced round him as he crawled. "Look at the rats, Paddy! look at the rats!" cried Dick. "They're in front of me!" cried the afflicted one, making a vicious grab at an imaginary rodent's tail. "Ran dan the bastes! now they're gone. Musha, but it's a fool I'm makin' of meself." "Go on, Paddy," said Dick; "don't stop.
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