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"I've got the gun all right," said he, "and a lot of shells. In the morning we'll go out and get some of those ducks that are squawking." "Yes, Jean," said I; "we're in one of the best ducking countries on this whole coast." "That's fine we can live chiefly by huntin' and fishin', like it says in the g'ographies." "If the wind should shift," said I, "we may have to do that for quite a time.
The first time I tried, it looked like an elephant with two trunks, and the second time the Mississippi River came out of the middle of Florida. In this last picture, the land is so fat there isn't any room for the ocean. But I found two old g'ographies in that heap of trash, and Gail said I could have them.
"My curse upon their g'ographies and Bibles," he used to say; "where's the use ov perplexing the poor childre wid what we don't undherstand ourselves?" No use at all, in troth, and so I said from the first myself. Well, thank God and his Grace, we'll have no more thrigonomethry nor scripther in Connaught.
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