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He cared little for the sensation he would create in riding up to his sister's door in Brooklyn, though he chuckled mightily at the thought of what his old dad would say; and as they claimed a place among the millionaires he broke into a sly smile. "If ever a bog-trotter landed at Castle Garden, me father was wan o' them. I can remember the hat he wore. 'Twas a 'stovepipe, sure enough.
The McMurrough stood awhile where the other had left him. He watched the rider go, and twice he shook his fist after him. "Marry my sister, you dog," he muttered. "Ay, if it will give me my place again! But for helping you to the land first and to her afterwards, as you'd have me, you schemer, you bog-trotter, it would make Tophet's dog sick! You d d dirty son of an upstart!
Our way is not now so lonely as it was in the morning. Parties of the male population are frequently passing. One of the settlers has to-day a "barn-raising frolic," and thither they are bound. They present a fair specimen of their class in the forest settlements. The bushwhacker has nothing of the "bog-trotter" in his appearance, and his step is firm and free, as though he trod on marble floor.
"Two wives, the bog-trotter!" gulped Owen. "John McGillis is a blayguard!" "Oui, what you call Irish," assented Léon; and he dodged, but the cobbler threw nothing at him. Owen marked with the awl on his own leather apron. "First a haythen and then a quarther-brade," he tallied against his countryman. "He will be takin' his quarther-brade to the praste before the boats go gut?"
"Ye onprincipled black Saxon thief," growled The O'Shannon; "how dare ye take my biscuit?" "You miserable Irish cur," growled Smith; "how was I to know it was your biscuit? Does everything on the floor belong to you? Perhaps you think I belong to you, I'm on the floor. I don't believe it is your biscuit, you long-eared, snubbed-nosed bog-trotter; give it me back."
I treated the Greek, of course, with the contempt which he merited, whereupon he called another overgrown bog-trotter to his assistance, and the twain forthwith attacked me with great fury.
"He's no sailor, your honour; but a poor bog-trotter: and he will never do you any good." The captain again shook his head. "Ask me anything else," said he, "and I will give it you." "Well then," said Maria, "give us Phelim O'Shaugnessy?" The captain was equally inflexible. "Come, come, your honour," said Judy, "we must not stand upon trifles nowadays.
"Look at that, Clef-des-Coeurs," said Beau-Pied; "it would take you a hundred years to find out what that accoutrement is good for." "What should I know about the Pope's uniform?" replied Clef-des-Coeurs, scornfully. "You worthless bog-trotter, you'll never learn anything," retorted Beau-Pied.
Before he got back, Halkett was under the cab window of the 1010, demanding to know with many objurgations why Callahan had stopped in the middle of the yards. "Get a move on you!" he shouted. "The express is right behind us, and it'll run us down, you damned bog-trotter!" Callahan's gauntleted hand shot up to the throttle-bar. "I'm l'avin', Misther Halkett," he said mildly.
Its hard up I've been myself before the now, but its a cold day when Barney O'Hara will let a bog-trotter go dry name your poison." "Its the rale ould stuff I'll be a takin' straight," and the tramp spread his elbows on the counter and soon demonstrated his ability to gulp down the fiery fluid without any such effeminate trimmings as water in it.
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