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I had reloaded, and Murphy was coolly priming, when on our right the rifles began speaking faster and faster, and I heard the sound of men running hard over the dry leaves, and the thudding gallop of horses. "A charge!" said Murphy. "There do be horses comin', too. Have they dhragoons? I dunnoa. Ha! There they go! 'Tis McCraw's outlaws or I'm a Dootchman!"
It is all very well to send "the fut and the dhragoons in squadhrons and plathoons" to the fore, but it is not clever to send them to Ballinrobe or elsewhere without tents, baggage, or food.
I tuk him by the scruff av his neck, my heart was hung on a hair-thrigger those days, you will onderstand an' 'Out wid ut, sez I, 'or I'll lave no bone av you unbreakable, 'Speak to Dempsey, sez he howlin'. 'Dempsey which? sez I, 'ye unwashed limb av Satan. 'Av the Bob-tailed Dhragoons, sez he, 'He's seen her home from her aunt's house in the civil lines four times this fortnight, 'Child! sez I, dhroppin' him, 'your tongue's stronger than your body.
"An' I'm not the only wan that doesn't kape to barricks," sez he. I tuk him by the scruff av his neck, my heart was hung on a hair- thrigger those days, you will onderstand an' "Out wid ut," sez I, "or I'll lave no bone av you unbreakable." "Speak to Dempsey," sez he howlin'. "Dempsey which?" sez I, "ye unwashed limb av Satan." "Av the Bob-tailed Dhragoons," sez he.
Mounted Police duty, escortin' doughboys' prisoners! Faix, I might as well be wid Her Majesty's dhragoons, thramplin' down the flesh and blood of me in poor ould Oireland. Begor, Harry, me bhy, it's a mane job to be setting you at, and this the first day ye're mounted to save the Union!" "Stop coddin' the boy, Corporal," said Bader, angrily.
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