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Updated: May 4, 2025
Sunday night I was grabbed outrageous in a darrk turnin', rowled on the groun', half strangled, an' me pockuts nigh ripped out av me trousies. An' this very blessed mornin' av light I was strook onsensible an' left a livin' corpse, an' my lodgin's penethrated an' all the thruck mishandled an' bruk up behind me back. Is that a panjandhery for the polis to laff at, sor?"
An', lo! the wagin it bruk down on the way home, an' what with proppin' it up on a crotch, they made out ter reach the cross-roads over yander at the Notch, an' thar the sober old folks called a halt, an' hed the wagin mended at the blacksmith-shop.
There was an oath, the Corporal fell over to his own left as shinbone met shinbone, and the Private collapsed, his right leg broken an inch above the ankle. "Pity you don't know that guard, Sim," said Slane, spitting out the dust as he rose. Then raising his voice "Come an' take him on. I've bruk 'is leg."
He felt hands grasping him, and he fought them off, smashing weakly at faces that appeared around him as he was dragged to his feet. He heard a voice say: "His arm's bruk," and the voice seemed to clear the atmosphere. He paused, holding back a blow, and the dancing blur of faces assumed a proper aspect and he saw the man who had hit the banker.
"Tankee, lidde missee," he said, returned the bowl, and went away. Tom was thereupon set to guard the gate, which he did poorly. Another negro slipped in and sat down on our steps. He looked around the pretty enclosure, gave a tired grunt, and said: "Please, missee, lemme res'; I done bruk up." He held in his hands the works of a clock, fell to studying them, and became wholly absorbed.
There was an oath, the Corporal fell over his own left as shinbone met shinbone, and the Private collapsed, his right leg broken an inch above the ankle. "'Pity you don't know that guard, Sim," said Slane, spitting out the dust as he rose. Then raising his voice "Come an' take him orf. I've bruk 'is leg."
Then Mary, in a long, white garment, with her innocent face shining from the combined effects of perfect happiness and unmerciful washing, climbed on Rory's knees not to bid him goodnight, but to compose herself to sleep. "Time the chile was bruk aff that habit," observed the mother, as she seated herself beside the table with some sewing. "Let her be a child as long as she can, Mrs.
'I never bruk my word yit, says the owld chap, cocking up his horns consaitedly; 'honour bright, says he. 'Well then, says the colonel, 'build me a mill, down there, by the river, says he, 'and let me have it finished by to-morrow mornin'.
"Ah, that we had! I never saw such a day's sport in all my life!" "I thought ye did. I could see the 'art was tired smartish. I qeum along by the bruk, and give un the meeting. When I sees un I says, 'I can see you've 'ad a smartish doing, old boy. Then the 'ounds qeum yoppeting along as nice as could be.
"Waal, then, jes' leave my filly in the barn whar she be now; ye kin travel on Shank's mare!" Thad started off up the steep slope. "Ef ye ain't a-hankerin' fur me ter ride that thar filly, ez air ez bridle-wise ez ye be, jes' let's see ye kem on, an' hender!" "I hopes she'll fling ye, an' ye'll git yer neck bruk," Ben called out after him.
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