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On seeing this, Tim set up a wild shout, which sounded to my ears like "Wallop ahoo aboo Erin-go-bragh!" in which I very heartily joined him, feeling no small satisfaction at the peaceable termination of this our first interview with one of the very few wild beasts we had to dread in the forests of the Orinoco.
"Yes, that you may depend on it I will," said Gerald; "if I get into scrapes, I'll take care he doesn't though I don't intend to get into any myself, notwithstanding that they say Irishmen always do. They've dubbed me Paddy already, but of course I'm proud of that, and shall always stick up for old Ireland, and sing `Erin-go-bragh' on all occasions.
Here’s to Aunt Mary, and if she isn’t the Aunt Mary of all of us here’s a hoping she may get there some day; I don’t just see how, but I ask the indulgence of those present on the plea that I have indulged quite a little myself to-night. Honi soit qui mal y pense; ora pro nobis, Erin-go-Bragh.
Ah, Mark, my lad, I didn't mean you to hear that," he added, as he saw the lad's ashy face. "And he's all wrong. Erin-go-bragh!" cried the major; "there, what did I say: that's the captain speaking, I'll swear." For just then a series of shots were heard from the Petrel, and a faint film of smoke was seen to rise.
"What! is Erin-go-bragh up with the sun for once?" cried Robinson to Mary McDogherty, who passed him spade on shoulder. "Sure if she warn't she'd never keep up with Newgut," was the instant rejoinder. "Hem! how is your husband, Mary?" "Och, captain, it is a true friend ye are for inquiring. Then it's tied in a knot he is. "Mercy on us, tied in a knot?"
"When midnight came, Jack, who kept a hawk's eye to the night, was at the hawthorn with the wild filly, saddled and all more betoken, she wasn't a bit wild then, but as tame as a dog. Off they set, like Erin-go-bragh, Jack and the lady, and never pulled bridle till it was one o'clock next day, when they stopped at an inn, and had some refreshment.
Erin-go-bragh!" Such were the cries which the Irish part of our crew uttered, and in which I through sympathy joined, as once more the capstan was manned, and the anchor being hove up, and the topsails sheeted home, we made sail for Dublin.
Tim, like a brave fellow, grasped his shillelagh to defend himself against the supposed banditti; but just then discovering us, he threw it down, shouting out, "Erin-go-bragh! shure it's the young masthers; and a welcome sight they are to me." We were soon grasping Tim's hand, and inquiring how it was he had been so long in reaching us.
Keeping up the character I had assumed, I instantly began to salaam, as I had seen the Moors do, and to turn about on one leg, and then to leap and spring up, and clap my hands, singing out "Whallop-ado-ahoo! Erin-go-bragh!" at the top of my voice, in a way to astonish the natives, if it did not gain their respect.
"Arrah, Ben, my boy, you will be after seeing your dear mother again; and the thought that she has been mourning for you has been throubling my heart more than the hard work and the dishonour of labouring for these blackamoors. Hurrah! Erin-go-bragh! I am right sure it's news that's coming to us." By this time the overseer had spoken to Kiddle, and finally we were all conducted up to the chief.
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