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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Aye, sorr," said Mr McCarthy, joining in the conversation, "and didn't it droive us too! Begorrah, there was some times that the wind tuck the ship clane out of the wather and carried us along in the air like one of them flying-fish you'll say when we gits down to the line!" "It was fortunate it was in our favour," observed the captain reflectively.
At that Will Hostler bolted in, red-faced and scant of wind, "Thou young rascal," quoth he, "I have thee now! Come out o' that!" and he tried to take Nick by the collar. "So-oftly, so-oftly!" rumbled the smith, tweaking up the glowing shoe in his great pincers, and sweeping a sputtering half-circle in front of the cowering lad. "Droive slow through the cro-owd! What hath youngster here did no-ow?"
"Oi niver could droive ayven a pig, on the brightest day that shone. Oi'll not fool wid a couple av strange horses, a wagon-load av foire an' brimstone, an' a brace av dead men, in the midst av Aygytian darkness. Not Oi." "Here, I kin drive two horses, anyway," said Abel Waite, climbing into the saddle. "I've done that much on the farm."
"Me boss and the blank of a blank blanked blank that's attimptin' to droive this river has some sort of a row." "Jimmy," said Orde, "didn't you know that I am the gentleman last mentioned?" "What!" "I'm driving this river, and that's my dam-keeper you've got hid away somewhere here, and that's my water you're planning to waste!" "What?" repeated the Rough Red, but in a different tone of voice.
"Anny one what kin droive two dacently should be able enough to handle four; 't is not the number of horses, but the sinse at the other ind av the reins." "Is that so? I thought it needed a strong man to drive so many." "Indade, no; it does not that. I've seen a schmall, little man, hardly bigger than yerself, takin' six along with the turn av his hand."
There were by this time four women and half a dozen boys present. No one spoke above their breath but our woman of bare arms. In answer to something addressed to her by our party, she said, "Sure they could not take a better time than seed time to droive us out of our senses. Sure God above has an eye and an ear for it.
And then, turning to me, he added, "Sure an' that wor a purty droive, Misther Gray-ham; ye lit him have it straight from the shouldher." "I'm sure I didn't mean to hurt him," I answered, sorry now for my opponent as he scrambled at last up on his feet, looking very bedraggled and showing on his face the signs of the fray. "I only held out my hand to save the poor bird, and he ran against my fist."
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