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"Then I laughed, and the horse-boys laughed loudly, and the crowd louder still, and finally the old gentleman doubled himself up in his blue silk fur-lined robe in fits of laughter. "An Asiatic only relishes one thing better than being outwitted that is to outwit. "'Eyah! Eyah! Ha! ha! ha! they cried as we rode away. "'Ha! ha! ha! replied I, waving a well-gloved hand, on my road to Pekin."
'An', in the ind, as I said, O'Hara met his death from Rafferty for foolin' wid his wife. He wint his own way too well Eyah, too well! Shtraight to that affair, widout turnin' to the right or to the lef', he wint, an' may the Lord have mercy on his sowl. Amin! ''Ear! 'Ear! said Ortheris, pointing the moral with a wave of his pipe.
"Well! there's no denying you are one hell of a sergeant!" That worthy one grinned at him tolerantly. "Get yez gone!" he spat back, "an' du not linger tu play craps on th' thrail either th' tu av yez!" Long and grimly, with his bald head sunk between his huge shoulders, he gazed after the departing riders. "Eyah!
But in the storms and in thunder they are at war. "Ay, so it is," says Grindhusen at last. "Two years come next fourteenth of August since the last letter came. There was a smart photograph in, from Olea, it was, that lives in Dakota, as they call it. A mighty fine photograph it was, but I never got it sold. Eyah, but we'll manage somehow, please the Lord," says Grindhusen, with a yawn.
"'Eyah! sez the man, 'was you there too? We'll call ut Silver's Theatre. Half the Tyrone, knowin' the ould place, tuk ut up: so we called ut Silver's Theatre. "The little orf'cer bhoy av the Tyrone was thremblin' an' cryin', He had no heart for the Coort-martials that he talked so big upon. 'Ye'll do well later, sez Crook, very quiet, 'for not bein' allowed to kill yourself for amusemint.
Greeting the policemen quietly, he turned to the broken body. "Tchkk! good God!" He shook his head sadly. Redmond thought he had never seen a medical man so unprofessionally shocked. Presently he straightened up and turned to Slavin. "Can you identify him, Sergeant?" That worthy nodded. "Eyah! 'tis Larry Blake, I'm thinking Docthor. Best frisk him now an' see, I guess. Maybe he has letthers."
Yeh're tellin' th' trute, bhoy, yeh're tellin' th' trute! He'd a-made a good undhershtudy for ould Nobby Guy, down Regina." He settled himself comfortably and lit his pipe. "Eyah, th' good ould days, th' good ould days!" he resumed reminiscently, between puffs, "Hark now till I tell ye th' tale av ould Nobby!" "Is that the man they used to Josh about, down Regina?" enquired Redmond.
Dinah Shadd ran out wid water, an' Judy dhragged the ould woman into the veranda till she sat up. "'I'm old an' forlore, she sez, thremblin' an' cryin', 'and 'tis like I say a dale more than I mane. "'When you're able to walk, go, says ould Mother Shadd. 'This house has no place for the likes av you that have cursed my daughter. "'Eyah! said the ould woman.
The shower made no difference to the potato crop, and days came and went; the sky was blue. Isak set to work on his timber sledge, worked hard at it, and bowed his heart, and planed away humbly at runners and shafts. Eyah, Herregud! Ay, the days came and went, and the child grew.
There's nothing like opin-speakin'. Orth'ris, ye scutt, let me put me oi to that bottle, for my throat's as dhry as whin I thought I wud get a kiss from Annie Bragin. An' that's fourteen years gone! Eyah! Cork's own city an' the blue sky above ut an' the times that was the times that was!"
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