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John then asked the miller if he ever played poker. "Oh, sometimes; I used to play for a quarter ante." "Let's have a little game, then, to pass away time." The game began, and Brogan trotted out his marked cards. I insisted on playing, but the miller said, "No, that I was too smart." So, somewhat crestfallen, I walked out and took a stroll, and was gone perhaps a couple of hours.
Thomas Brogan dare not leave the polling-booth for his life, until Mr. Carew took him on his car. He had been threatened by the priest, who drew a circle round him with a walking stick, to show that he was cut off from his fellows, and that contamination must be feared. Patrick Hogan, whose views were not in accordance with those of the priest, was afraid to vote.
"I thought we were all at The Beeches, and Allison, and Kitty, and all of us were making Limericks. Kitty began: "'There was a lieutenant named Logan, Who found one day a small brogan. Then she stuck, and couldn't get any farther, and Allison had to be smart and pun on my name. She made up a line: "'So what will Joyce Ware if she meets a great bear?
That sounds very dreadful and horrible, and it is, if you are thinking of a great, brutal, brogan kick, such as a stupid farmer gives to his patient oxen; but not, if you mean only a delicate, compact, penetrative nudge with the toe of a tight-fitting gaiter, addressed rather to the conscience than the sole, to the sensibilities rather than the senses.
When I reached Alexandria I went at once to the Ice House, for that was the odd name given to the hotel, where I soon found Brogan; and having had a good shake of the hand and a few drinks, we sat down for a social chat about old times, beguiling away the time with choice Havanas.
But the circumstance had made an impression, especially upon Lillie; and at the noon recreation, which the first communicants spent together, she hastened to tell her companions about it. "Just imagine!" she cried; "Annie Brogan made her First Communion this morning, and she wore an old dress of mine, an old dress, all mended up, that mamma gave her!" "The idea!"
June snatched up the brogan, stooped, and fastened it. Houck, an unwelcome guest, stayed at the cabin on Piceance nearly two weeks. His wooing was surely one of the strangest known. He fleered at June, taunted her, rode over the girl's pride and sense of decorum, beat down the defenses she set up, and filled her bosom with apprehension.
"An' you're the prettiest barelegged dancer on the Creek," he countered. June stamped the one shoe she was wearing. "Are you going to give me that brogan or not?" "If you'll let me put it on for you." Furious, she flung round and went back into the house. He laughed delightedly, then tossed the heavy shoe into the room after her. "Here's yore shoe, girl. I was only foolin'," he explained.
The ancient crone took them up with the tips of her fingers ragged coat, vest, and pantaloons rummaged in the same contemptuous fashion every pocket, and kicked over the worn, soaked boots with the toe of her leather brogan, sniffing her disappointment at the worthlessness of the habiliments and the result of her search.
And Laeg said, "Men call it Slieve Modurn, after a giant of the elder time, when men were mightier and greater than they are now. He was of the children of Brogan, uncle of Milesius, and his brothers were Fuad and Eadar and Breagh, and all these being very great men are commemorated in the names of noble mountains and sea-dividing promontories." "Guide thither the horses," said Cuculain.
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