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"It'll be the poorhouse, it's like," mused Peter. "Man, have ye noathing for us to do?" he asked pleadingly. Gourlay's jaw clamped. "Noathing, Peter," he said sullenly, "noathing;" and slipped some money into Peter's heedless palm. Peter stared stupidly down at the coins. He seemed dazed. "Ay, weel," he said; "I'll feenish the tatties, at ony rate."
I shall introduce my best friend, Don Pancho, who lofe her. I shall say, 'Bless you, my children, and it is feenish! I go! I am gone even now!" He started up and clapped on his hat, but Grey caught him by the arm. "For Heaven's sake, Enriquez, be serious for once," he said, forcing him back into the chair. "And don't speak so loud.
See that, an' thees. Look that ear. See thees shoulder. By gar! that Beel he fight good an' hard. But when he fight Jan, tha's the feenish for Beel." Jake and Jean together made the best job they could of patching up Jan's wounds a little against the frost and the rub of trace and breast-band. "Good dog, too, that blame Bill," mused Jake.
I have say, 'Courage, Pancho will come! Then I say, 'No, he is talk with Miss Essmith! I remember not more. I have creep here on the hands. Eet is feenish!" I looked at her distractedly. She smiled tenderly, and slightly smoothed down and rearranged a fold of her dress to cover her delicate little boot. "But," I protested, "you are not much hurt, dearest. You have broken no bones.
"Now you watch me, Maria," he said, stripping off to his undershirt and gripping an iron that was what he called "really hot." "An' when he feenish da iron' he washa da wools," as she described it afterward. "He say, 'Maria, you are da greata fool. I showa you how to washa da wools, an' he shows me, too. Ten minutes he maka da machine one barrel, one wheel-hub, two poles, justa like dat."
It was a sublime picture, Pancho," he said, sitting up again suddenly, "and have kill the bull before our friend Pepe's sword have touch even the bone of hees back and make feenish of him." "Look here, Enriquez," I said bluntly, "have you been serenading that girl?" He shrugged his shoulders without the least embarrassment, and said: "Ah, yes. What would you? It is of a necessity."
"Fower, as a'm a leevin' woman, and that's no a'; he didna feenish wi' ae set an' begin wi' the next, but if he didna mix them a' thegither. Fower set o' heads a' in a tangle; noo ye hae some kin' o' idea o' what a' hed tae face." And Mrs. Macfadyen paused that I might take in the situation.
He had kept running during the last round merely to take the third prize. Now here was his chance of the coveted Red Hose, and he sprinted and tore along as fast as he was able, calling up every particle of effort he could muster, and intent on getting past before the two men could gather strength to rise. "Come on, Rob!" roared Andrew Marshall, "get up an' feenish, my wee cock!
"Let's gae roon' to the wunnin' post so as to see the feenish." The competitors lined up, each on his separate mark, ready for the signal to start. Rundell, in a bright-colored costume of fine texture, showed well beside the other racer who started along with him at forty yards.
"He gae me that picture special, an tell'd me the name o't, an' said to feenish wi't. But gin he disna get a stane o' diseased pitatties frae me the morn that'll mak' him onweel for a i'ortnicht, my name's no Si Bowden." Syne he added heich oot, "Noo, loons and lassockies, that's a'. It's aboot time you was toddlin' awa' hame noo; an' I howp you've a' enjoyed it."
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