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"An' agin, there's little Joey. Who was it but the polace as come arristin' the feyther of the boy for batin' of his own wife, and him sint up for a year, an' she a-dyin' along of bein' weakly an' nobody to support her, an' Joey left in this very Tiniment an orphan child! Don't ye be a-callin' in no polace for the loikes of this swate angel choild, Miss Norma darlint, don't ye be doin' it!
"O Sally, me darlint, what's the use of batin' around the bush? Ye know that a cat niver looked at crame as oi look on ye," said Barney, in a wheedling tone, and trying the tactics of coaxing once more. He sat down beside her and essayed with his insinuating arm to further his cause as his words had not done.
It warn't just a roarin', racin', sneezin' rain like a thunder shower, but it kept a steady travellin' gait, up hill and down dale, and no breathin' time nor batin' spell. It didn't look as if it would stop till it was done, that's a fact. But still as it was too late to go out agin that arternoon, I didn't think much about it then.
Ye'll just sae how yez'll loik the batin' ye'll get, noo;" and he proceeded to cut a stick with which to administer the "batin';" but Jerry interrupted, and ordered Patsey to once more mount the mule, then, riding his own horse into the water, the mule followed without the least difficulty.
If he nades batin' I'll bate him, but fur anny skimpy, yaller critter like yerself to so much as give him a sassy look I'll construe as a mortial offense. Run along, now, run along, and git him his breakfas', or I'll strangle ye with me foot! "No," said Mr. Scraggs, sadly. "I wasn't no worse off.
"Faix, an' you needn't spake, Ellish; you can let out a nate bounce yourself, whin it's to sarve you. Come now, don't run away wid the story!" "Well, if I do, it's in the way o' my business; whin I'm batin' them down in the price o' what I'm buyin', or gettin' thim to bid up for any thing I'm sellin': besides, it's to advance ourselves in the world that I do it, abouchal."
Yuh 'd be wastin' your time, officer." "Sure, I know that. But for the report " The young woman in the riding costume chose this moment to open the door and saunter out. "Does the officer want something, Nora?" she asked innocently, switching the end of a crop against her riding-boots. "Yes, Miss. There's been a ruffian batin' up Swedes an' tyin' 'em to posts.
Beat me as long as you can stand over me if you like, but I'll only pray the harder." "For God's sake, m'em," Kitty cried, clasping her hands, "let that child alone. Shure she's a sweet lamb if you'd give her a chance. But ye put the divil into her wid yer shakin' an' yer batin', and mischief'll come of it sooner or later, mark my words." When Kitty had gone, Mrs.
'We're doin' th' best we can in th' matther iv gods, says I. 'We have thim cast at a first-rate foundhry, I says, 'an' we sandpa-aper thim ivry week, says I. 'As f'r knowin' things, I says, 'me people wrote pomes with a markin' brush whin th' likes iv ye was r-runnin' ar-round wearin' a short pelisse iv sheepskins an' batin' each other to death with stone hammers, says I. An' I'm f'r firin' him out, but bein' a quite man I lave him stay."
'What the divil's the matther? says Andy Curtis, wakenin' out iv his sleep. 'Who's batin' the door? says Nell; 'what's all the noise for? says she. 'Who's in it? says Andy. 'It's me, says Jim. 'Who are you? says Andy; 'what's your name? 'Jim Soolivan, says he. 'By jabers, you lie, says Andy.
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