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"Did the shock knock ye overboard?" "It did." "Humph! I thought ye was Bragin." "I came pretty close to being drowned, for I came up under the lumber." "Well, we aint out o' the woods yet, young man. Didn't see nuthin o' Bragin, did ye?" "I've seen nobody but you." "Then he must be down to the lake bottom by this time." "He was on the raft with you?" "Yes.
"'Come back to your quarters, sez I, 'an' if you don't believe the livin', begad, you shall listen to the dead, I sez. "I hoisted him an' tuk him back to his quarters. 'Mrs. Bragin, sez I, 'here's a man that you can cure quicker than me. "'You've shamed me before my wife, he whimpers. "'Have I so? sez I. 'By the look on Mrs.
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.
"Come back to your quarters," sez I, "an' if you don't believe the livin', begad, you shall listen to the dead," I sez. 'I hoisted him an' tuk him back to his quarters. "Mrs. Bragin," sez I, "here's a man that you can cure quicker than me." "You've shamed me before my wife," he whimpers. "Have I so?" sez I. "By the look on Mrs.
Peterson was but little the worse for the adventure, and his chief anxiety was for his friend Bragin, of whom, so far, nothing had been heard. The coming of Dick on board of the Captain Rollow was viewed with much astonishment by two of the passengers on the freighter. These two persons were Arnold Baxter and his son Dan.
'Bragin tould us that Flahy was a Corp'ril who lost his wife av cholera in those quarters three years gone, an' wint mad, an' walked afther they buried him, huntin' for her. "Well," sez I to Bragin, "he's been hookin' out av Purgathory to kape company wid Mrs. Bragin ivry evenin' for the last fortnight. You may tell Mrs.
'That's as you look at ut, said Mulvaney calmly; 'Annie Bragin niver cared for me. For all that, I did not want to leave anything behin' me that Bragin could take hould av to be angry wid her about whin an honust wurrd cud ha' cleared all up.
An' that, mark you, is the way av a man. "Wan evenin' I said: 'Mrs. Bragin, manin' no disrespect to you, who is that Corp'ril man' I had seen the stripes though I cud niver get sight av his face 'who is that Corp'ril man that comes in always whin I'm goin' away? "'Mother av God! sez she, turnin' as white as my belt; 'have you seen him too? "'Seen him! sez I; 'av coorse I have.
There's nothing like opin-speakin'. Orth'ris, ye scutt, let me put me oi to that bottle, for my throat's as dhry as whin I thought I wud get a kiss from Annie Bragin. An' that's fourteen years gone! Eyah! Cork's own city an' the blue sky above ut an' the times that was the times that was!
"'I'm not pleased wid you, Mulvaney, sez Bragin, unbucklin' his sword, for he had been on duty. "'That's bad hearin', I sez, an' I knew that the pickets were dhriven in. 'What for, Sargint? sez I. "'Come outside, sez he, 'an' I'll show you why. "'I'm willin', I sez; 'but my stripes are none so ould that I can afford to lose thim. Tell me now, who do I go out wid? sez I.
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