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Lizzie, I wish you wouldn't wheeze!" "You would wheeze, too, Tish Carberry," I retorted, justly indignant, "if a horse had just pressed your spinal column into your breast bone. Goodness knows," I said, "where my lungs are. I've missed them ever since my fall." However, she was engrossed with larger matters, and ignored my petulance. She is a large-natured woman and above pettiness.
By keeping the height, which overhung that road in many places, it was hoped the Highlanders might find an opportunity of attacking them to advantage. The army therefore halted upon the ridge of Carberry Hill, both to refresh the soldiers and as a central situation from which their march could be directed to any point that the motions of the enemy might render most advisable.
In most of his tricky work young Carberry had for a boon companion one "Sandy" Hollingshead, a sinewy chap, whose most prominent trait was his faculty for disappearing suddenly in a pinch. He was considerable of a boaster, but could always invent a most remarkable excuse for going before the storm broke.
I therefore take my leave, at this juncture, of good Father Carberry and St. Inigoes, and also of my companion in this adventure, pausing but a moment to say, that the Superior of St.
Percy seemed to think that all he had to do was to tell the Chief what he wanted; but then his plan of campaign was really a good one, and the police officer was wise enough not to quarrel with his bread and butter; for the Widow Carberry was a large property owner in Bloomsbury. "You just take the words out of my mouth seems like it," he remarked; "and that is the best plan we could carry out.
Aggie had put on her sweater vest and her muffler and the jacket of her winter suit and was getting into her fur coat, when Tish said: "Soft as mush, both of you!" "If you think, Tish Carberry," I began, "that I " "Apple dumplings!" said Tish. "Sofa pillows! Jellyfish! Not a muscle to divide between you!" I drew on my woolen tights angrily. "Elevators!" Tish went on scornfully.
While I sketched his portrait, he regaled me with memories of his early days on Red River, where he was born in 1841. 1 did not fail to make what notes I could of those now historic times. His accounts of the Antelope on White Horse Plain, in 1855, and Buffalo about the site of Carberry, Manitoba, in 1852, were new and valuable light on the ancient ranges of these passing creatures.
"All right, but if they take you in just remember that you've got to quit your playing tricks on everybody, William," declared the other Carberry Twin. "Listen to him, will you? He's feeling hard on me just because dad gave him a touch of the cane last night, thinking it was me. As if I was to blame for looking like my brother," the other said, plaintively, though chuckling at the same time.
"Put it to a vote, Mr. Chairman!" called out Bobolink. "Yes, and majority rules, remember," warned William Carberry. "But that don't mean a feller just has to go along, does it?" asked Nuthin, looking somewhat aghast at the thought. "Of course it don't;" Bobolink told him; "all the same you'll be on deck, my boy. I just know you can't resist having such a jolly good time, ghost or not.
Here O'Neil remained three weeks in camp consolidating the Catholic party in South Munster. During that time he was visited by the chiefs of the ancient Eugenian clans O'Donohoe, O'Donovan, and O'Mahoney: thither also came two of the most remarkable men of the southern Province, Florence McCarthy, Lord of Carberry, and Donald O'Sullivan, Lord of Bearehaven.
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