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"And we'll fetch Davy along, for luck," cried Cowan, catching sight of me beside him. "Sure we'll be wanting a dhrummer b'y," said McCann. And so they enrolled me. "Davy, take care of my Tom," cried Polly Ann. I can see her now, standing among the women by the great hewn gateposts, with little Tom in her arms, holding him out to us as we filed by.
"I knew that Harrodstown wouldn't fail me," he said, and called every man by name as we waded ashore. When I came splashing along after Tom he pulled me from the water with his two hands. "Colonel," said Terence McCann, "we've brought ye a dhrummer b'y." "We'd have no luck at all without him," said Cowan, and the men laughed.
"And we'll fetch Davy along, for luck," cried Cowan, catching sight of me beside him. "Sure we'll be wanting a dhrummer b'y," said McCann. And so they enrolled me. "Davy, take care of my Tom," cried Polly Ann. I can see her now, standing among the women by the great hewn gateposts, with little Tom in her arms, holding him out to us as we filed by.
Musha, thin, luk at the fat dhrummer laad! Has he apples in thim two cheeks, Jack? I dunnoa! Hey, there goes Wagner! Hello, Wagner! Wisha, laad, ye're cross-eyed an' shquint-lipped a-playin' yere fife hind-end furrst!" And the replies from the dusty, brown ranks, steadily passing: "Py Gott! dere's Jack Mount! Look alretty, Jacob! Hello, Elerson!
"I knew that Harrodstown wouldn't fail me," he said, and called every man by name as we waded ashore. When I came splashing along after Tom he pulled me from the water with his two hands. "Colonel," said Terence McCann, "we've brought ye a dhrummer b'y." "We'd have no luck at all without him," said Cowan, and the men laughed.
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