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Well, Jim and I used to get our horses and ride off quietly in the afternoon, as if we were going after cattle; but, in reality, as soon as we were out of sight of mother, to ride over to that old villain, Grimes, the shanty-keeper, where we met the young Dalys, and others of the same sort talked a good deal of nonsense and gossip; what was worse played at all-fours and euchre, which we had learned from an American harvest hand, at one of the large farms.
It's you, I mean, he'd say, pointing to me and Jim and the Dalys; 'I believe some of you WILL be hanged unless you change a good deal. It's cold blood and bad blood that runs in your veins, and you'll come to earn the wages of sin some day.
Aileen ran out to us, and stood while we let go our horses, and brought the saddles and bridles under the verandah. 'I'm glad you're come home for one thing, she said. 'There is a message from father. He wants you to meet him. 'Who brought it? I said. 'One of the Dalys Patsey, I think. 'All right, said Jim, kissing her as he lifted her up in his great strong arms.
"And so we can," said the widow; "betther bail than e'er a Lynch or Daly not but what the Dalys is respictable betther bail, any way, than e'er a Lynch in Galway could show, either for sessions or 'sizes, by night or by day, winter or summer." "Ah, mother! you don't understhand: he's maning that we're to be tried in the dock, for staling Anty's money." "Faix, but that'd be a good joke!
We must get behind things to the causes. We must " "We must make the Mr. Dalys pay more to their girls before they pay anything to pension funds, eh?" laughed Mr. Smith, as Miss Maggie came to a breathless pause. "Exactly!" nodded Miss Maggie earnestly. "Oh, can't you SEE what we can do with that twenty million dollars?" Mr.
Fine strong calves, and in rare condition, too. We could see they were all belonging to Mr. Hunter and Mr. Falkland. How they came to leave them all so long unbranded I can't say. Very careless they often are on these large cattle-stations, so that sharp people like father and the Dalys, and a lot more, get an easy chance at them.
He called the Dalys and Jacksons thieves and swindlers, who would be locked up, or even hanged, some day, unless they mended themselves. As for drinking a glass of grog, you might just as soon ask him to take a little laudanum or arsenic. 'Why should I drink grog, he used to say 'such stuff, too, as you get at that old villain Grimes's with a good appetite and a good conscience?
But I was put out at his laying it down so about the Dalys and us shantying and gaffing, and I do think now that some folks are born so as they can't do without a taste of some sort of fun once in a way.
High King of Nature, you who have all powers in yourself, he that wasn't narrow-hearted, give him shelter in heaven for it! He was the beautiful branch. In every quarter that he ever knew he would scatter his fill and not gather. He would spend the estate of the Dalys, their beer and their wine. And that he may be sitting in the chair of grace, in the middle of Paradise!
Finding that Costello made no reply, but sat in a dream, he burst out: 'Fill my noggin, I tell you, for no Costello is so great in the world that he should not wait upon a Daly, even though the Daly travel the road with his pipes and the Costello have a bare hill, an empty house, a horse, a herd of goats, and a handful of cows. 'Praise the Dalys if you will, said Costello as he filled the noggin, 'for you have brought me a kind word from my love.
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