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Updated: June 25, 2025
Dick Coulhan, av the battery we'll have down on us to-night, could drive his team no betther than I mine, an' I hild the worser cattle! An' so I lived, an' so I was happy till afther that business wid Annie Bragin she that turned me off as cool as a meat- safe, an' taught me where I stud in the mind av an honest woman. 'Twas no sweet dose to swallow.
"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."
"Did ye not say just now that I was flesh and blood? sez I. 'I have not changed since, I sez; an' I kep' my arm where ut was. "'Your arms to yoursilf! sez she, an' her eyes sparkild. "'Sure, 'tis only human nature, sez I, an' I kep' my arm where ut was. "'Nature or no nature, sez she, 'you take your arm away or I'll tell Bragin, an' he'll alter the nature av your head.
Kape out av the Married Quarters, I say, as I did not. 'Tis onwholesim, 'tis dangerous, an' 'tis ivrything else that's bad, but O my sowl, 'tis swate while ut lasts! 'I was always hangin' about there whin I was off duty an' Bragin wasn't, but niver a sweet word beyon' ordinar' did I get from Annie Bragin.
I put my bodyweight behind the blow, but I hit nothing at all, an' near put my shoulther out. The Corp'ril man was not there, an' Annie Bragin, who had been watchin' from the veranda, throws up her heels, an' carries on like a cock whin his neck's wrung by the dhrummer-bhoy. I wint back to her, for a livin' woman, an' a woman like Annie Bragin, is more than a p'rade-groun' full av ghosts.
'I suppose that's why you followed Annie Bragin till everybody in the married quarters laughed at you, said I, remembering that unhallowed wooing and casting off the disguise of drowsiness. 'I'm layin' down the gin'ral theory av the attack, said Mulvaney, driving his boot into the dying fire. "I've believed that way these eighteen years," sez ould Shadd, his eyes twinklin'; "but Mrs.
"'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.
He's comin' again. "She pointed to the veranda, an' by the Hoight av Impart'nince, the Corp'ril man was comin' out av Bragin's quarters. "'He's done that these five evenin's past, sez Annie Bragin. 'Oh, fwhat will I do! "'He'll not do ut again, sez I, for I was fightin' mad. "Kape way from a man that has been a thrifle crossed in love till the fever's died down. He rages like a brute beast.
I had not tuk ten paces before Annie Bragin was hangin' on to my arm, an' I cud feel that she was shakin' all over. "'Stay wid me, Mister Mulvaney, sez she; 'you're flesh an' blood, at the least are ye not? "'I'm all that, sez I, an' my anger wint away in a flash. 'Will I want to be asked twice, Annie?
Kape out av the Married Quarters, I say, as I did not, 'Tis onwholesim, 'tis dangerous, an' 'tis ivrything else that's bad, but O my sowl, 'tis swate while ut lasts! "I was always hangin' about there whin I was off duty an' Bragin wasn't, but niver a sweet word beyon' ordinar' did I get from Annie Bragin.
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