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He dhrinks too much, by all accounts; besides, he's idle, and the honest feeling isn't in him." "It's thrue, dear Martin; it's too thrue. Will you do me a great great favour, Martin" and she rose up a little and turned her moist clear eye full upon him "will you show your thrue love to your poor Anty, by a rale lasting kindness, but one that'll be giving you much much throuble and pain?
In the Morming settlements, we kin swop our unyforms for suthin' else, an' the berra too. Es to the knepsacks an' cartridge-box, I guess as how I inteend to make a spec on them ere two articles." "Fwhat! a pair ov soger knapsacks, an' an owld kyarthridge-box! They wuldn't fitch the worth ov dhrinks apaice." "Theer your mistaking, Mister Tigg. Preehaps they'll swop better'n you think.
"'And here's the hair all off your head, miss, sez he quite aisily, tossin' back the joke betwixt 'em. "And with that she dhrinks it off, and lies down and goes to sleep like a lamb, and wakes up wid de rosy dawn in her cheeks, and the morthal seekness gone forever." Thus Sarah Walker recovered. Whether the fact were essential to the moral conveyed in these pages, I leave the reader to judge.
'Gentleman born, said Mulvaney; 'Corp'ril wan year, Sargint nex'. Red-hot on his C'mission, but dhrinks like a fish. He'll be gone before the cowld weather's here. So! He slipped his boot, and with the naked toe just touched the trigger of his Martini.
It's life and death, and we need the engine." A bewhiskered face thrust itself through the opening, carefully pulling the flap below to cut off a fleeting glimpse of bare legs and loose shirt. "What ye take us for? Night nurses? Think we're taking shifts keeping Mollie snuggled up warm o' nights? Go away and change yeer dhrinks. What's the hullabaloo anyway? Short o' tobacco?
'In the place, where I spend most iv my time, says he, 'except the little leisure I have for lookin' about me here, says he, 'I have to walk a great dale more than I was ever used to, says he, 'and by far more than is good for me either, says he; 'for I must tell you, says he, 'the people where I am is ancommonly fond iv could wather, for there is nothin' betther to be had; an', moreover, the weather is hotter than is altogether plisint, says he; 'and I'm appinted, says he, 'to assist in carryin' the wather, an' gets a mighty poor share iv it myself, says he, 'an' a mighty throublesome, warin' job it is, I can tell you, says he; 'for they're all iv them surprisingly dhry, an' dhrinks it as fast as my legs can carry it, says he; 'but what kills me intirely, says he, 'is the wakeness in my leg, says he, 'an' I want you to give it a pull or two to bring it to shape, says he, 'and that's the long an' the short iv it, says he.
They're good readin'. Nawthin' cud be better f'r a man whin he's tired out afther a day's wurruk thin to go to his library an' take down wan iv th' gr-reat wurruks iv lithratchoor an' play a game iv dominos f'r th' dhrinks out iv it. Anny other kind iv r-readin', barrin' th' newspapers, which will niver hurt anny onedycated man, is desthructive iv morals.
"Fwhy not?" said Dan, with a twinkle in his eye as he stretched himself for rest. "Are we not conspirin' all we can, an' while we conspire are we not entitled to free dhrinks? Sure his ould mother in New York would not let her son's comrades perish of drouth if she can be reached at the end of a letter." "You're a janius," said Horse Egan. "0' coorse she will not.
If he'd been born in England he'd be a hero. Ye marry a woman who swears an' dhrinks an' bets on th' races an' ye quarrel with her. Th' r-rest iv th' play is made up iv hard cracks be all th' char-ack-ters at each others' morals. This is called repartee be th' learned, an' Hogan.
'Tis be such as ye that th' polisman who dhrinks on th' sly, an' th' saloon-keeper that keeps open f'r th' la-ads an' th' newsboys that shoots craps, 'll be brought to justice. Down with crime! says I. Fellow-citizens, I thank ye kindly. Th' meetin' is adjourned siney dee; an' I app'int Missers Dooley, O'Brien, Casey, Pug Slattery, an' mesilf to lade out th' Lexow Sodality be th' nose." Mr.
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