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He does it without thinking, I replied. 'Thankin' you for the complimint, sorr, ut may be so. But I'm doubtful whether you mint ut for a complimint. Hear now; I sat there wid Judy on my knee tellin' me all manner av nonsinse an' only sayin' "yes" an' "no," when I'd much better ha' kept tongue betune teeth. An' that was not an hour afther I had left Dinah! What I was thinkin' av I cannot say.
"We were on the bridge, don't you see, and plinty was passing by with their grins, and loitering and stopping afther they were behind her back to hear what was going on betune us. Annybody does be liking to got the sound of loud talk an' they having nothing better to do.
'Ay, a fellow-creature, said I for the sergeant was an orangeman 'and if he differs from you in matters of religion, sure he's your fellow-creature still. 'Troth, Doctor, I think there's another trifling difference betune us, said he. 'Damn your politics, said I; 'never let them interfere with true humanity. Wasn't I right, Major?
They're all that stand betune me and dis-ris-pect-ability. Av I didn't shave, I wud be torminted wid an outrajis thurrst; for there's nothin' so dhryin' to the throat as a big billy-goat beard waggin' undher the chin. Ye wudn't have me dhrink ALWAYS, Dinah Shadd? By the same token, you're kapin' me crool dhry now. Let me look at that whiskey.
"I bleeve he's takin' advantage, sir, of the frost, to get in his praties to-day, in respect of the bad footin', sir, for the horses in the bog when there's not a frost. Any how, betune that and a bit of a sore head that he got, yer Reverence, on Thursday last in takin' part wid the O'Scallaghans agin the Bradys, I bleeve he had to stay away to-day." "On the Sabbath day, too, without my leave!
No good iver comes av ut, an' there's always the chance av your bein' found wid your face in the dirt, a long picket in the back av your head, an' your hands playing the fifes on the tread av another man's doorstep. "Twas so we found O'Hara, he that Rafferty killed six years gone, when he wint to his death wid his hair oiled, whistlin' Larry O'Rourke betune his teeth.
Thus: "'An' now? she sez, lookin' at him; an' the red paint stud lone on the white av her face like a bull's-eye on a target. "He lifted up his eyes, slow an' very slow, an' he looked at her long an' very long, an' he tuk his spache betune his teeth wid a wrench that shuk him. "'I'm dyin', Aigypt dyin', he says; ay, those were his words, for I remimber the name he called her.
"Yes!" said Lee, "he pulled in las' night t' catch th' nine-thirty down t' Calgary. He ain't back yet." "Fwas he " Slavin checked himself abruptly "fwhat toime did he get in here?" "'Bout nine." "Fwhat toime 'bout fwas ut whin this racket shtarted up betune Windy an' Larry?" "Oh, I dunno, Sarjint! 'bout nine, may be as I say I "
For an instant I was foolishly indignant, but he soon brought me to my senses. "Shure, sur, it's only larnin' the boys the habits uv industhry I was and may they niver know, be the same token, what it is to worruk fur the bread betune their lips. Shure it's but makin' 'em think it play I was.
"'No, nor by the powdhers-o-war, never will, says Billy M'Cormick the tailor, who had come over and slipped in on the other side betune Father Corrigan and the bride 'by the powdhers-o' war, he'll never be fit to be compared with me, I tell you, till yesterday comes back again.
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