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By token I ad seen a dhriver of a batthery goin' by at a trot singin' 'Home, swate home' at the top av his shout, and takin' no heed o his bridle-hand I had seen that man dhrop under the gun in the middle of a word, and come out by the limber like like a frog on a pave-stone. No. I wud not hurry, though, God knows, my heart was all in Pindi.
Old Pat Cleburne thought he had better put in a word to his soldiers. He says, "You hear what General Maney says, boys. If they don't take it, by the eternal God, you have got to take it!" I heard an Irishman of the "bloody Tinth," and a "darn good regiment, be jabbers," speak up, and say, "Faith, gineral, we'll take up a collection and buy you a batthery, be Jasus."
"Murdher!" exclaimed the pedlar, "the Lord save and guard us! for there's nothin' but murdher in my ears! go where I will of late, it's nothin' but bloodshed; sure I cannot sing my harmless bit of a song along the road, but I'm stopped wid an account of some piece o' murdher or batthery, or God knows what. An' who was near gettin' it now, Misther Purcel? Not yourself, I pray Jasus this day!"
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