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"Major!" said he, clawing fiercely hold of Brock's arms. "Ensign," said Mr. Brock, smiling. "Arr we, or arr we not, men of honour?" "Oh, in coorse," said Brock, laughing, and using Macshane's favourite expression.
"Coorse ye know," said Caleb, "ye can't have a drum without skins for heads." "What kind of skins?" "Oh, Horse, Dog, Cow, Calf 'most any kind that's strong enough." "I got a Calfskin in our barn, an' I know where there's another in the shed, but it's all chawed up with Rats. Them's mine. I killed them Calves. Paw give me the skins for killin' an' skinnin' them.
Well, sure enough, now there was a change; for, instead of three shovelfuls coming in, as before, when he threw one out, there went nine more along with it. Jack, in coorse, couldn't do less than thank the lovely crathur for her assistance; but when he raised his head to speak to her, she was gone.
"Coorse you couldn't, Mistress Kewley," Pete replied. But he swung up and kicked the door to in their faces. The strangers being shut out, Cæsar said cautiously "Do you mane that, Peter?" "Molly's smoking at the gate like a brewer's vat, father," said Pete. "The half hasn't been told you, Peter. Listen to me. It's only proper you should hear it.
But, man, ye're jist behavin' to me like God himsel', an' gin it warna for you, I wad jist lie here roarin' an' greitin' an' damnin' frae mornin' to nicht. Ye will be in the morn's night willna ye? he would always end by asking with some anxiety. 'Of coorse I will, Robert would answer. 'Gude nicht, than, gude nicht. I'll try and get a sicht o' my sins ance mair, he added, one evening.
Jones on his way home" "the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth" "kiss" "Miss Blake, she's the girl with a foot and ankle" "Daly has never had wool on his sheep" "how could he" "what does he pay for the mountain" "four and tenpence a yard" "not a penny less" "all the cabbage-stalks and potato-skins" "with some bog stuff through it" "that's the thing to" "make soup, with a red herring in it instead of salt" "and when he proposed for my niece, ma'am, says he" "mix a strong tumbler, and I'll make a shake-down for you on the floor" "and may the Lord have mercy on your soul" "and now, down the middle and up again" "Captain Magan, my dear, he is the man" "to shave a pig properly" "it's not money I'm looking for, says he, the girl of my heart" "if she had not a wind-gall and two spavins" "I'd have given her the rights of the church, of coorse," said Father Roach, bringing up the rear of this ill-assorted jargon.
Frank here interrupted his friend with a hearty laugh, and at the same time declared that he would have nothing to do with the grog and provision store; that he would rather take to porterage than engage in any such enterprise. "Well, then, sir, we won't say no more about that, but wot coorse would ye advise the ship's head to be laid?"
I tell you agin I'll turn out o' my nor-aist coorse for no man." A shotted gun was fired. The shot hopped on the water as it passed before the hooker. "Phew! you missed it, like your mammy's blessin'," said Barny. "O murther!" said Jemmy, "didn't you see the ball hop aff the wather forninst you. O murther, what 'ud we ha' done if we wor there at all at all?"
"Ah!" he exclaimed, with a sigh of relief, "but this oiland as Oi'm talkin' about is unbeknownst, so av coorse it won't be drawed on the chart. That's all right, misther; you navigate the brig to that place, and you'll find an oiland there, safe enough." "But, supposing that we do not," I suggested; "supposing that your information happens to be incorrect; what then?"
Sweeny immediately shinned up the stepped beam, uttered a neigh of triumphant laughter from the top, and then skylarked down again. "Well, you are a man," observed the strong-minded lady, somewhat discomfited. "Av coorse I'm a man," yelped Sweeny. "Who said I wasn't? He's a lying informer. Ha ha, hoo hoo, ho ho!"
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