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And how he sealed up poor ould Dixon, the parish dark's mouth, at Barny Boccagh's wake. God rest his soul! It was talkin' about the Protestant church they wor. 'Why, said Misther Denis, 'you ould termagent, can you tell me who first discovered your church? The dotin' ould crathur began of hummin', and hawin', and advisin' the boy to have more sense.
Why, there was no end to that feller's childishness. An' mind you, this was among the tamest blackfellers in the world. Why, Burke was dotin'. Wants a young feller, with some life in him, for to boss a expegition; an' on top o' Burke's swellishness an' uselessness, dash me if he wasn't forty!" "Well, no; he war n't too old, Mosey," interposed Price deprecatingly.
"Jesus," she breathed radiantly, flashing her eyes from one to the other. "Jesus jest air a dotin' on ye, Andy, ye poor little dub ye! He allers dotes on folks in trouble." "Shucks!" grunted Andy, and "Holy thunderin' Moses!" fell from Daddy Skinner. Tessibel stood up, an angry glint in her eyes.
I browsed among the lasts, clipping, cutting and scratching old leather parings and dreaming of the wonderful days beyond when I too could make a boot and sing "Black-eyed Susan." Then the news came news of a revolution. "They're making boots by machinery now," Anna said one day. "It's dotin' ye are, Anna," Jamie replied. She read the account.
What other country could we ever like as well? and my grandfather here he's creepin' in, sure he's not the same man within the last few months, oh, how could you think of bringin' him, now that he's partly in his grave, an' he," she added, in a whisper full of compassion, "an' he partly dotin' with feebleness and age." "Hush!" said her father, "we must say nothing of it to him.
See here, now, you-all don't cry no more and when I come back I'll sure come a-ridin' like this Lochinvar sport and marry you-all a whole lot. That's whatever! How'd you like that!" "When will you come?" demanded Marian. "Oh, right soon, honey! And you'll sure have a tame and dotin' husband, I can tell you. But now, good-by!" "You'll come back?" "You're shoutin', I will!
"Get right ahead," he said in his easy way. Beasley leered over the rim of his glass as he drank his whisky. "You think it's rye," he said, setting his glass down with unnecessary force. "An' I say it's the women or the woman. Trouble come to this camp with that tow-headed gal over at the farm. Anybody with two eyes could see that. Anybody that wasn't as blind as a dotin' mother.
"Well, sir, I think I have good grounds for it." "What description of a woman is your wife, and what age is she?" "Why, sir, she's about my own age. She was once handsome enough indeed, very handsome when I married her." "Was the marriage a cordial one between you and her?" "Why, sir, she was dotin' upon me, as I was upon her?" "Have you had a family?" "A fine family, sir, of sons and daughters."
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