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Whin she'd take human form an' a bowld buck av a British dragoon would come making love to her, 'tis herself would say to him: 'Captain, alannah, would ye oblige me wit' a dhrink av wather? An' whin he turrned to dhraw the wather, she'd breathe on her hand like that an' immejiately 'twould turn to iron an' wit' wan blow she'd knock his brains out.
"That's what they're doing in front!" shouted Elerson. "When a soldier fires they're on him before he can reload!" "Two men to a tree!" roared Jack Mount. "Double up there, you Caughnawaga men!" Elerson glided cautiously to the oak which sheltered Mount; Murphy crept forward to my tree. "Bedad!" he muttered, "let the ondacent divils dhraw ye're fire an' welcome. I've a pill to purge 'em now.
Whooh! blur-an'-age! whooh! oh, by gorra! that's that's Frank run afther my breath I've lost it run, you tory: oh, by gor, that's stuff as sthrong as Sampson, so it is. Arrah, what well do you dhraw that from? for, faith, 'twould be mighty convanient to live near it in a hard frost."
"Spoken like a Christian! Sure, that's jist what St. Patrick would say, if the saint long life to him! were here," replied Pat, rejoicing that the difficulty was overcome. "Now, dhraw near till I tells yous all about it; and, if iver you mintion a word of it, may your sowl never lave purgatory till it is burnt to a cindther!
No doubt ye have been referred to me for details iv the disturbin' rumours. Well, it's this wa-ay: I am in the service iv the comp'ny, and I dhraw me pay wid regularity, praise be, so that I w'u'd not for a moment think of questionin' the wisdom iv the policy iv me superiors " "That's right don't!" snapped Farwell. "Now, get me those telegrams, if there are any, and tell me what I want to know."
That may do very well for Masther Thady, but by the powers, it'll not do for me!" "Well, you can be spaking to him yourself to-morrow." "Yes, but you must be getting him jist to come out, and spake to us; jist dhraw him out a bit, you know." "Well then, boys, I've said as much to the Masther already, and he expects to meet you up there."
"And now," said she, "I must give you a cure for blisthers, an' it's this: In the mornin', if we're all spared, as we will, plase the Almighty, I'll give you a needle and some white woollen thread, well soaped. When your blisthers gets up, dhraw the soapy thread through them, clip it on each side, an', my life for yours, they won't throuble you.
Recruities sometime cry, an' sometime they don't know fwhat they do, an' sometime they are all for cuttin' throats an' such like dirtiness; but some men get heavy-dead-dhrunk on the fightin'. This man was. He was staggerin', an' his eyes were half shut, an' we cud hear him dhraw breath twinty yards away. He sees the little orf'cer bhoy, an' comes up, talkin' thick an' drowsy to himsilf.
Take that back to Jimmy Jones an' tell him to put it in his pipe an' smoke it. With which he bounds into th' house an' locks the dure while th' baffled conspirators goes down to a costumer an' changes their disguise. If th' future prisidint hadn't been quick on th' dhraw he'd been committed to a policy iv sthranglin' all the girl babies at birth."
And in the middle of the uproar, late in the afternoon, a new sound joined in the chorus of the storm, the coarse and ugly summons of a motor-horn. Old Evans spied at the car through the hall window, and contrived to signal a command to go round to the back of the house. "If I let dhraw the bolts," he said to Barty Mangan at the kitchen entrance, "the door would fall flat on me!"
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