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But whin I saw he wud be runnin' about, I grup his shtock in my left an' his waist-belt in my right an' swung him clear to my right front, head undher, he hammerin' my nose till the wind was knocked out av him on the bare ground. "Stand up," sez I, "or I'll kick your head into your chest!" and I wud ha' done ut too, so ragin' mad I was. "My collar-bone's bruk," sez he. "Help me back to lines.
Her grandmother brought it out from England and Miss Lavendar was awful choice of it. I was dusting it just as careful, Miss Shirley, ma'am, and it slipped out, so fashion, afore I could grab holt of it, and bruk into about forty millyun pieces. I tell you I was sorry and scared. I thought Miss Lavendar would scold me awful, ma'am; and I'd ruther she had than take it the way she did.
Well, before the chills and faver bruk me spirits entirely, when I was a young man, and makin' me tin dollars a week brick-makin', it's meself that wud hav' given "
Rachel asked him who had broken it. She no like de way it talkin'. She say: 'W'at mek you say, night und day, night und day? Un' she tuk her bill un' bruk it up. Un' Georgina chop' up de pianneh, 'caze it wouldn' talk foo her like it talk too buckra. Da shame!" But now came yells and cheers in the street, the rush and trample of hundreds, and the cry: "De gub'nor! de gub'nor a-comin'!"
His tail-feathers were about gone and one leg was maimed, yet he still showed the fighting spirit of his New England sires, for, as Sundown essayed to pick him up, he pecked and squawked energetically. They returned to the house, where Sundown examined the bedraggled bird critically. "I ain't no doc, but I have been practiced on some meself. Looks like his left kicker was bruk.
What I was thinkin' av I cannot say, Presintly. quiet as a cat, ould Mother Sheehy came in velvet-dhrunk. She had her daughter's red hair, but 'twas bald in patches, an' I cud see in her wicked ould face, clear as lightnin', what Judy wud be twenty years to come. I was for jumpin' up, but Judy niver moved. "'Terence has promust, mother, sez she, an' the could sweat bruk out all over me.
"Circumventions alters cases," he soliloquized, not altogether untruthfully. Then aloud, "Me hoss put his foot in a gopher-hole. Bruk his leg, and I had to shoot him, lady. Hated to part with him." And the inventive Sundown illustrated with telling gesture the imaginary accident. Sympathy flowed freely from the gentle-hearted Señora and her daughter. "Si!"
"Are yer why hurt much, Isley?" asked Bob. "Ba-back's bruk, Bob!" "Not so bad as that, old man." "Where's father?" "Coming up." Silence awhile, and then "Father! father! be quick, father!" Mason reached the surface and came and knelt by the other side of the boy. "I'll, I'll why run fur some brandy," said Bob. "No use, Bob," said Isley. "I'm all bruk up." "Don't yer feel better, sonny?"
Fwhat bruk me down was the Lancers' Band shinin' an' spick like angels, wid the ould dhrum-horse at the head an' the silver kettle-dhrums an' all an' all, waitin' for their men that was behind us. They shtruck up the Cavalry Canter, an', begad, those poor ghosts that had not a sound fut in a throop they answered to ut, the men rockin' in their saddles.
"Waal, then," said the admonished orator, bluntly, "Grinnell 'lows ye don't own that thar lan' around them rocks on the bald, no more'n ye read enny writin' on 'em." "Not them rocks!" cried Purdee, standing suddenly erect "the tables o' the Law, writ with the finger o' the Lord an' Moses flung 'em down thar an' bruk 'em. All the kentry knows they air Moses' tables.
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