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"I'm not so sartin of that," sturdily replied Tim; "yer fayther is no green hand." "That isn't what I mean; I'm thinking of mother and Dot; he will have to accommodate himself to them, and in case the Indians do come up with them "
And perhaps Heaven sent the telegram that Macgregor found on his return home, rather late in the afternoon. The war has changed many things and people, but mothers most of all. Mrs. Robinson made no mention of the 'extra special' dinner prepared so vainly in her son's honour. 'Yer fayther missed ye, was her only reference to his absence from the meal. The telegram was an order to return to duty.
"Oh, Becky!" said Milly, putting her arm round Becky's neck as they went into the house together, "I hope you may stay a good long time. What time do you go to bed?" "Oh, I don't know," said Becky. "We go when fayther goes." "When fayther goes!" exclaimed Milly. "Why, we go ever so long before father. Why do you stay up so late?" "Why, it isn't late," said Becky.
"Me fayther s'id, faith, as how the Donovans wor kings ov Cark at one toime, Tom!" "Why," I rejoined, giving him a twister, "you told the `Jaunty' when you came aboard the Saint Vincent that time to join, that your father was an `Oitalian!" "Stow thet, Tom," said he with a grin, digging me in the ribs, much to the amusement of one of the Irish girls who was near us, at whom Mick winked.
"They was holler enough anyway after ridin' 'way down from up country into the salt air, and they'd been treated to a sermon on faith an' works from old Fayther Harlow that never knows when to cease. 'Twa'n't no time for tactics then, they wa'n't a'thinkin' of the church military. Sant, he couldn't do nothin' with 'em. All he thinks of, when he sees a crowd, is how to march 'em.
And you must stick firm to your pledge, Thomas promise me that." "Yes; by God's help, so I will," was the reply; "only I see I shall have hard work. But it's no odds, they can't make me break if I'm resolved that I won't." "No, fayther," said his daughter; "and they can't go the breadth of a thread further nor the Lord permits." "That's true, Betty, my lass," said Ned; "so cheer up, Thomas.
"Waal, as to thet, some folks thinks too much o' book-larnin', I say! Your fayther didn't hev much o' it to boast on, an' see what a good pervider he was. As she talked, her needles clicked sharply amid the clouded blue yarn of her half-formed sock, and her eyes, almost as sharp, kept roving about, while the uneasy nose seemed determined to root out anything that might escape them.
'I say, fayther, look at that, she said, with a strange tremulous smile, lifting her hand, which was smeared with blood. Perhaps he was ashamed, and the more enraged on that account, for he growled another curse, and started afresh to reach her, whirling his stick in the air. Our voices, however, arrested him. 'My uncle shall hear of your brutality. The poor girl!
"Ay, fayther, I have," said Betty, quietly. "Well, now," said Johnson, clenching his teeth, "you just mind me, I'll have nothing of the sort in my house. I hate your nasty, mean, sneaking teetottallers we'll have none of that sort here. D'ye hear?" he shouted. Neither Samuel nor Betty spoke. "Hush, hush, Tom," broke in his wife; "you mustn't scold the childer so.
Just then I heard somebody a- coming, and I felt almost sure it were fayther; so I gave one great pull with my knife, the branch came in two all of a suddent, and the knife slipped, and gave my left hand a great gash. I kept it, however, in my hand, but I slipped in getting back into the road, and dropped it.
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