Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 26, 2025
The story which recurred to my mind was of a poor Irishman, who, in describing a visit which he paid to the home of his childhood after a long absence, said: "At the sober hour of twilight, I entered the lonely and desarted home uv me forefathers, an' as I gazed about the silent walls, I said, 'me fathers, where are they? an' did not echo answer, 'Is that you Pathrick O'Flannigan, sure?"
"Why, me if it don't look as if the mean cowardly crew have been and desarted the poor thing," exclaimed Bob with unusual vehemence, as we noticed that the figure never moved as though to direct the attention of others to our approach. "It looks very like it," I replied; "but we shall soon see. It will be an awkward matter to board, however, with all that wreck dangling about to leeward.
"Now, look yer, Flip, it's playing it rather low down on the old man, this yer running' in o' tramps and desarted emigrants and cast-ashore sailors and forlorn widders and ravin' lunatics, on this yer ranch.
If you watch 'em you can see 'em building the earth up and patting it down hard if it gets broken down. Sometimes, in very wet weather, thar will be a flood, and then the whole lot, dogs and owls and snakes, get drowned all together. Mighty nasty places they are, I tell yer, when they are desarted.
Am I of a age to drink water like a 'oss, you nasty thing! Oh, to think as ever I should live to be desarted!" Inattentive to these murmurs, which she felt unreasonable, the bouncing Martha now quitted the room to repair to her "upper household" avocations. The man at the hearth was the only companion left to the widow.
"Yes, you see," said Bluenose, modestly, "I'm raither moloncholy about old Jeph, an' if Bax and Tommy leave me, I'll feel quite desarted like. Moreover, I wants to see furrin' parts specially the antypodes. But I hain't blunt enough to pay my passage, d'ye see, and so and so " "In short," interpolated Tommy, "he's blunt enough to ask a free one!"
"Clane gone, yer honner," replied Chane. "Gone?" "Yes, Cap'n; that's so as he sez it," answered Lincoln. "Gone! What do you mean?" I inquired. "Desarted, Cap'n." "How do you know that?" "Because they ain't here." "On the island?" "Searched it all every bush." "But who? which of the French?" "Dubrosc and that 'ar boy that was always with him both desarted." "You are sure they are missing?"
"Arra, how can I kape her quiet, an she cryin an roarin, dyin an desarted?" "Ask Mrs. Forster to go in and coax her to stop." "Mrs. Forsther's at dhuddher ind o the town. Whisht! There she is, callin me. Youll have to gup to her, maam. Faith I wont go next or near her." "There's no use in my going up, Eliza. What can I do?" Eliza had nothing to suggest.
The shanty sartinly looked open enough the last time I fetched the trail past the clearin', and though with the help of the moss and the clay in the bank she might make it comfortable, yit, ef the vagabond that be her husband has forgot his own, and desarted them, as Wild Bill said he had, I doubt ef there be vict'als enough in the shanty to keep them from starvin'. Yis, pups," said the old man, rising, "it'll be a good tramp through the snow, but we'll go in the mornin', and see ef the woman be in want.
But who stood by you when everybody else desarted you, and got you out from under them rough boys, and helped you clean out o' the scrape? Darn it all, Basset, you're the ongratefullest varmint I ever did see, when, in a manner, I saved your life. Really, I did think, instead o' blowing a fellow up in this way, you'd a stood treat."
Word Of The Day
Others Looking