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Updated: July 10, 2025
A dead silence followed this bold announcement on my part, which was at length broken by O'Gorman, who, looking round upon his motley crowd of followers, demanded: "Well, bhoys, you've heard what the gintleman says. Have anny of ye annything to say agin it?" "Yes; I have," answered the irrepressible Price.
'I'm an ould fool, said Mulvaney, reflectively,'dhrag-gin' you two out here bekaze I was undher the Black Dog sulkin' like a child. Me that was soldierin' when Mullins, an' be damned to him, was shquealin' on a counterpin for five shillin' a week an' that not paid! Bhoys, I've took you five miles out av natural pevarsity. Phew!
"Thin I knew that man for the Dublin dockrat he was wan av the bhoys that made the lessee av Silver's Theatre grey before his time wid tearin' out the bowils av the benches an' t'rowin' thim into the pit. So I passed the wurrud that I knew when I was in the Tyrone an' we lay in Dublin. 'I don't know who 'twas, I whispers, 'an' I don't care, but anyways I'll knock the face av you, Tim Kelly.
Thin I'm goin' tu ride freight awhile, up an' down th' thrack. I can get Clem Wilson tu luk afther T an' B. We must get this man, bhoys." "Look here, Sergeant," broke in Gully good-naturedly, "as this is partly on my account I feel it's up to me to try and do what little I can do to help you in this case.
"'Well, I'm just a tellin' you, he says. 'Ye've got some rough knocks comin', Larry. In fact, ye're in for a devil of a time. But, remember that ye're the O'Keefe, says he. 'An' while the bhoys are all wid ye, avick, ye've got to be on the job yourself. "'I hope, I tell him, 'that the O'Keefe banshee can find her way here in time that is, if it's necessary, which I hope it won't be.
"Now, me bhoys, altogether," cried Garry O'Neil, looking over the top of the booby-hatch over the companion-way, "three cheers for the cap'en, horray!" "Horray!" roared the lot below with a kindred enthusiasm, "Horray! Horray!"
'Bhoys, said the culprit, still shaking gently, 'whin I've done my tale you may cry if you like, an' little Orth'ris here can thrample my inside out. Ha' done an' listen. My performances have been stupenjus: my luck has been the blessed luck av the British Army an' there's no betther than that. I went out dhrunk an' dhrinkin' in the palanquin, and I have come back a pink god.
He is baskin' in Purgathory this tide, but I wish he cud hear that, whin he stud lookin' down the room an' the bhoys shivered before the oi av him, I knew him for a brave man an' I liked him so. "Fwhat will I do?" sez O'Hara agin, an' we heard the voice av a woman low an' sof' in the veranda. 'Twas Slimmy's wife, come over at the shot, sittin' on wan av the benches an' scarce able to walk.
Like a tug of war team they all bowed their backs and strained with all their might; but their efforts proved futile. "Vast heavin!" said Slavin, breathing heavily. "'Tis shtuck somehow I will have tu get th' team an' double-trees. Get a log off'n that breakwater, bhoys, so's th' rope will not cut inta th' edge av th' bank." He crossed over to the horses.
"It's joking ye are, Misthress Milligan, for divil a child have ye got in the house, barring a score of bhoys with big whiskers on their faces," answered Larry; "so just keep a dacent tongue in your mouth, and be quiet with that poker."
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