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"Bedad, that's the same case wid mysilf," interposed Mr McCarthy, exhibiting the articles he wore as he spoke, which, from their repeated patchings and general state of dilapidation, would certainly have carried off the prize at a curiosity show. "Sure, and it's walkin' on my fut I've bin the last foor days entirely."
"That they won't bate us more than foor miles," replied Gerald. "In my opinion," began Donald, "'tis no good accepting, for we have no boat, and if we did we have no time for practice, and " "Can't you think of a few more while you are at it," laughed Rand. "As for a boat we can get the use of the old shell of the Creston Club." "And we no have any crew to speak of," continued Donald.
See, he has given me foor bits of sticks, every one of which is to tell a story, in its own way.
"Where are ye gaun?" he asked, for Tam's besetting vice was an unquenchable curiosity. "To the trenches afore Masille, sir-r," said the man he addressed. "Ye'll no' be callin' me 'sir-r," reproved Tam. "A'm a s-arrgent. Hoo lang will ye stay in the trenches up yon?" "Foor days, Sergeant," said the man. "Foor days guid Lord!" answered Tam. "A' wouldn't do that wairk for a thoosand poonds a week."
"Well," began Rand on the evening of the day on which the challenge had been received from the Highpoint Patrol, "what shall we do with this challenge?" "Accept it, av coorse," cried Gerald. "Shure, they can't bate us more thin foor miles." "But we only row three," put in Jack. "Thin it's a safe bet," went on Gerald, "Aven Don might bet on that." "What's that?" asked Donald.
"My toime was up phwin he was kilt, an' Oi quit. F'r Oi niver 'listed to rot in barracks. Oi wint back to Kerry an' told his mither, th' pale, sad Lady Constance God rist her sowl! that sint foor b'ys to th' wars that niver come back an' wud sint foor more if she'd had 'em.
Again, a veteran Rhode Islander wrote from Anamabo in 1752, "on the whole I never had so much trouble in all my voiges", and particularized as follows: "I have Gott on bord 61 Slaves and upards of thirty ounces of Goold, and have Gott 13 or 14 hhds of Rum yet Left on bord, and God noes when I shall Gett Clear of it ye trade is so very Dull it is actuly a noof to make a man Creasey my Cheef mate after making foor or five Trips in the boat was taken Sick and Remains very bad yett then I sent Mr.
Murphy, who averred that she "niver seed such min." "Fur they have no table manners, John," she said. "What's the use givin' thim knives and forks, whin they don't know how to use thim? Foor o' thim cut their mouths." "Niver mind, Norah," said Murphy, kindly. "Give thim spoons; for a spoon is like a shovel, ye know, and they're accustomed to shovels. And give 'em bafe stew and mashed praties."
Of course, the Smithfield collie has been in good hands for hundreds of years; and when you get the pure breed Just look at that dog! How did you get such a dog as that? Bred him yourself, I suppose?" "Noa," he replied good-naturedly. "Oi g'e 'e foor moor troys. Coomh!" "Bought him a pup?" "Troy ageean." "Got him a present?" "Troy ageean?" "Found him?" "Not dezackly. Troy ageean."
An' whin two hundred an' thirty-wan votes laves wan soide minus an' the other soide plus, th' gineral result is a difference uv twoice two hundred an' thirty-wan, or foor hundred an' sixty-two. D'ye mind thot, sorr?" "I see," said Perkins. "And as this ah this particular candidate was beaten by a bare majority of two or three hundred votes "
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