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Updated: May 21, 2025
"'An' why not? says I. "'For a jail-bird? says he. "'Deed, says I, 'if yer own b'y had been breakin' stones wid a gang of toughs for sivin long years gone, wouldn't ye be after likin' a man to spake wan daycint word wid him? says I. "Wid that Jim turned on quick-like an' says: "'I'll thank ye, Mrs. McCann, to kape yer advice to yerself.
"'Lord love ye, Miss dear, it's tuk up and sint to the Island for tree months she is; for a drunken ould crayther is Biddy Ryan, and niver a cint but goes for whiskey, more shame to her, wid a fine bye av her own ready to kape her daycint. "Then I WAS discouraged, and went home to fold my hands, and see what fate would send me, my own efforts being such failures."
"Yes," said Franklin, "I know, Battersleigh. You've been a proud one," "Tut, tut, me boy; nivver mind. Ye'll know I came out here to make me fortune, there bein' no more fightin' daycint enough to engage the attention of a gintleman annywhere upon the globe. I came to make me fortune. An' I've made it.
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