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Always barrin' me little frind Bobs Bahadur, I know as much about the Army as most men." I said something here. "Wolseley be shot! Betune you an' me an' that butterfly net, he's a ramblin', incoherint sort av a divil, wid wan oi on the Quane an' the Coort, an' the other on his blessed silf everlastin'ly playing Saysar an' Alexandrier rowled into a lump. Now Bobs is a sinsible little man.
"You're an ould fool, Mister Bragin," sez I. "You're a young thief," sez he, "an' you've bruk my heart, you an' Annie betune you!" 'Thin he began cryin' like a child as he lay. I was sorry as I had niver been before. 'Tis an awful thing to see a strong man cry. "I'll swear on the Cross!" sez I. "I care for none av your oaths," sez he.
"Go it, Paddy! go it, Paddy!" "Kape off me, you baste!" shouted Paddy. "Holy Mary, Mother of God! I'll land you a kick wid me fut if yiz come nigh me. Em'leen! Em'leen! come betune us!" He tripped, and over he went on the sand, the indefatigable Dick beating him with a little switch he had picked up to make him continue.
'Why, thin, ye murtherin' villins, will ye follow me into the smoke itself? said Andy, whirling his bush in the air to disperse their squadrons. 'I thought ye wor satisfied wid most atin' us last week, an' blindin' the young gintlemin, an' lavin' lumps on their faces as big as hazel nuts. Betune yerselves an' the miss kitties, it's hard for a man to do a sthroke of work, wid huntin' ye.
But after, all three were quiet as they fought, until they were gone where no man could see, where none cries out so we can hear. The last thing I saw was a hand stretching up out of the sands." There was a long pause, painful to bear. The Trader sat with eyes fixed humbly as a dog's on Pierre. At last Macavoy said: "She kissed ye, Pierre, aw yis, she did that! Jist betune the eyes.
"I can't find her," sez the Corp'ril man, an' wint out like the puff av a candle. "Saints stand betune us an' evil!" sez Bragin, crossin' himself; "that's Flahy av the Tyrone." "Who was he?" I sez, "for he has given me a dale av fightin' this day."
"'Well, Grimes, said Denis, 'sure I've often wished for this same meetin, man, betune myself and you; I have what you're goin' to get, in for you this long time; but you'll get it now, avick, plase God "'It was not to scould I came, you Popish, ribly rascal, replied Grimes, 'but to give you what you're long
"Faith, I'm thinkin' thim that makes it wud do betther to cut up the Colonel. He carries a power av liver undher his right arrum whin the days are warm an' the nights chill. He wud give thim tons an' tons av liver. 'Tis he sez so. 'I'm all liver to-day, sez he; an' wid that he ordhers me ten days C.B. for as moild a dhrink as iver a good sodger took betune his teeth."
'Well, evenshually we buried our dead an' tuk away our wounded, an' come over the brow av the hills to see the Scotchies an' the Gurkeys taking tay with the Paythans in bucketsfuls. We were a gang av dissolute ruffians, for the blood had caked the dust, an' the sweat had cut the cake, an' our bay'nits was hangin' like butchers' steels betune ur legs, an' most av us were marked one way or another.
"'Faith you've larnt the half av your lesson, sorr, sez I, 'but av you shtick to the Rig'lations you'll niver get thim in-ship at all, at all. Or there won't be a rag av kit betune thim whin you do. "'Twas a dear little orf'cer bhoy, an' by way av kapin' his heart up, I tould him fwhat I saw wanst in a draf' in Egypt." "What was that, Mulvaney?" said I.
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