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As he did so, the shaggy head of the dwarf newsvendor peeped in, and the great black eyes took a survey of the coffee-room, till finally they settled on me. "Ah!" cried the fellow, with a strange blending of irony and compassion in his voice; "be gorra, I knew how it would be, the major has ye!" At this a general laugh broke out from all present, and every eye was fixed on me.
"Why, is he dead, too?" "Be Gorra, no but the conthrairy to that. 'Twas his weddin' you seen passin' a minute agone." "Is it the young sogarth's? Musha, bad end to you, man alive, an' spake out. Tell us how that happened. Sowl it's a quare business, an' him was in Maynewth!" "Faith, he was so; an' they say there wasn't a man in Maynewth able to tache him.
You just wait till I get my pipe filled, and I'll spin a yarn for you, as they used to say down in New Bedford." "Be gorra, now, ain't this fun?" exclaimed Patsey, as he and Ned settled themselves in a comfortable position by the fire, to listen to Having filled and lighted his pipe, he began.
In complying with this rather gruff demand, one of my pocket pistols, which I carried in my breast pocket, fell out upon his knee, upon which he immediately started, and asked hurriedly "and are you armed too?" "Why, yes," said I, laughingly; "men of my trade seldom go without something of this kind." "Be gorra, I was just thinking that same," said the traveller, with a half sigh to himself.
Let us go in." "Wait until I speak further with him." "Zeb Langdon. Isn't dat old Kent?" "Yes; how came you in this scrape, Zeb?" "Gorra mighty! I didn't come into it. Dem red dogs dese here nice fellers brought me here 'bout two months ago, and den dey all fired at me fur two or free days, and den dey hung me up and left me to starve to death. Boo-hoo-oo!"
It took forty of 'em to watch me and de rest." Here the negro's words were cut short with a jerk, and he gave vent to a loud groan. "Gorra mighty!" he ejaculated, in fury. "Come ashore, Mr. Whiteman and Mr. Leslie. Come quick, and let dese yer fellers got you. Dey wants yer too." "Are there any of the imps with you?" asked Kent, more for amusement than anything else.
But the thruth is, sir, she was so lively on the subject in a kind of a pleasant, coaxin' hurry of her own an' indeed I was so myself, too. Augh, Mrs. Doran! Be gorra, sir, she put her comedher an me entirely, so she did. Well, be my sowl, I'll be the flower of a husband to her anyhow.
"I fear you will learn wisdom only by experience, even if you do then," returned George. "It would be a good thing for you, should you meet with something that would impress you with a sense of your peril. I can only wonder at your stupidity." "Gorra mighty! do you s'pose dere's anything that'd make me afeard of dem Injins? Why, bless you, forty of 'em wouldn't dare to frow a stone at me.
"Oh, be gorra, it's well you ever seen me at all, so it is!" "Why," said his father, "what happened you?" "Oh, bedad, a terrible thing all out. As I was crassin' Dunroe Hill, I thramped on hungry grass. First, I didn't know what kem over me, I got so wake; an' every step I wint, 'twas waker an' waker I was growin', till at long last, down I dhrops, an' couldn't move hand or fut.
"Thin, be Gorra, sir, I wish you could; thry it. I'd kiss the book, we did more labor, an' worked harder this day, nor any day for the last fortnight. If it was light grass, sir see here, Major, here's alight bit now, look at how the scythe runs through it! Thin look at here agin just observe this, Major why, murdher alive, don't you see how slow she goes through that where the grass is heavy!
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