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"That ain't all," continued Hardy, with a gloating chuckle. "Th' Old Man, 'e sez 'Belt's bein' invalided, McCullough's gettin' 'is third stripe, an' Dyvis is goin' dahn t' th' Corp'ril's Class at Regina, but that there young Redmond worries me! I don't know wot t' do abaht 'im, 'e sez jes' like that sorter kind-like not a bit like th' O.C. o' a Division torkin' t' a buck private.
Cleek thought for a moment, then plunged bravely in. "Come up from the passage, sir," he responded curtly. "Loadin' up ternight, and some fool locked t'other end before me and my mate 'ere 'ad finished our work. 'Ad to come along this w'y, or else spend the rest of the night dahn there, and we're due for loadin' the stuff at the docks at midnight. Master'll be devilish mad if 'e finds us missin'."
'Oo's the little 'un?" "Meaning me?" said Dollops, bridling. "None of yer blarney 'ere, miss! Me an' my mate's been on a walkin' tooer come up from Lunnon, we 'ave." "You never did!" Admiration mingled with disbelief in the barmaid's voice. A little stir of interest went round the crowded, smoky room and someone called out: "Lunnon, 'ave yer? Bin walkin' a bit, matey. Wot brought yer dahn 'ere?
Up and dahn the City Rowd, In at the Ayngel... Thet's the wy the money gows, Pop gows the weasel. Ever 'eard thet?" "Oh, yes," John replied, smiling. "I used to sing that song at home!" "Did you nah. An' w'ere is your 'ome?" "In Ireland!" "Ow! Thet acahnts for it. I couldn't myke aht 'ow it was you never 'eard of the 'Orns. Fency you hearin' abaht the Elephant in Ireland!"
Why, you ought ter give it me every week instead of savin' it up and spendin' it on all sorts of muck, while I 'ave ter grind my very bones down to keep yer. 'Yer know, mother, if I didn't 'ave a little bit saved up, we should be rather short when you're dahn in yer luck. Mrs. Kemp's money always ran out on Tuesday, and Liza had to keep things going till the following Saturday.
Sally did not appear and she repeated her call. The men imitated her, and half a dozen took it up, so that there was enough noise to wake the seven sleepers. ''I! 'I! 'I! Sally! A head was put out of a top window, and Liza, taking off her hat, waved it, crying: 'Come on dahn, Sally! 'Arright, old gal! shouted the other. 'I'm comin'! 'So's Christmas! was Liza's repartee.
'As they sy in the Bible, she finished, 'it's enough ter mike one's grey 'airs go dahn into the ground in sorrer. I can show yer my marriage certificate. Of course one doesn't like ter say much, because of course she's very bad; but if she got well I should 'ave given 'er a talkin' ter. There was another knock. 'Do go an' see 'oo thet is; I can't, on account of my rheumatics. Mrs.
See W. Grimm, "Heldensage", p. 394, who thinks, however, that the connection of Iring with the Milky Way is the result of a confusion. "Irnfried" is considered to be Hermanfrid of Thuringia, who was overthrown and killed in A.D. 535 by Theuderich with the aid of the Saxons. See Felix Dahn, "Urgeschichte", iii, 73-79. He, too, comes from the Low German tradition.
"And shut the dure afther ye, and make yersilves scarce till tea-time, like good childer, do." Mrs. Handsomebody was borne away by Mary Ellen and Mrs. Coe, the latter still muttering "terbaccer smoke dahn 'er froat." We restored Coppertoes to his wicker cage, and wrapping it in an antimacassar, hid it beneath the piano.
'He's left th' gate at t' full swing, and Miss's pony has trodden dahn two rigs o' corn, and plottered through, raight o'er into t' meadow! Hahsomdiver, t' maister 'ull play t' devil to-morn, and he'll do weel. He's patience itsseln wi' sich careless, offald craters patience itsseln he is! Bud he'll not be soa allus yah's see, all on ye! Yah mun'n't drive him out of his heead for nowt!
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