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"I prefer to die looking death in the face; but it'll be hard for the man who attempts to touch me." "Oh! ye think ye'll foight for it, do ye?" asked O'Shea lightly; "but ye're mistaken there the death ye shall doie will admit of no foighting on your part." "There is something more in all this business than I understand."
"Keep low," ordered Mahon, crawling forward, "and quiet." "The m'anest koind o' foighting I iver took a hand in, it is," grumbled Murphy, shaking the sand from his whiskers. But he fastened his eyes to the dim movement of Constable Williams' heels and crawled after him.
"And fwhot hev you done with the last I sent ye, ye divil of a McCorkle, and here's me back that's bruk entoirely wid dipping intil the pork barl to giv ye the best sides, and ye spending yur last cint on a tare into Gilroy. Whist! and if it's fer foighting ye are, boys, there's an illigant bit of sod beyant the corral, and it may be meself'll come out with a shtick and be sociable."
A council of war was then held between us all on the poop, the skipper of course presiding, and the colonel coming up from the cabin to take part in the proceedings, as well as old Mr Stokes from our ship, where he had remained attending singlehanded to the duties of the engine-room, denying himself, as Garry O'Neil remarked, "all the foin of the foighting!"
Gad, sir, it put me in mind of one of our old nights when I bore His Majesty's commission in the Foighting Hundtherd and Third." And he pulled out an old snuff box, which he presented with a stately air to his new acquaintance. Arthur was a great deal too much flurried to speak. This shabby-looking buck was was her father.
"Faith," observed Garry O'Neil reflectively, "It was as purty a bit of foighting as I ivver took a hand in, whilst it lasted!" "But let us go and see what has become of all those chaps below all those you mentioned as belonging to the French crew, whom you left on board with your daughter," went on the skipper.
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