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I won't dab the place with the handkerchy, because it will feel cooler if you let it dry by itself." "Why, Pete, you are as good as a nurse." "Oh, I don't know, sir. Tidy, like tidy. You see, I have had two goes over the chaps in horspittle, and one can't help picking up a bit." "No nurse could have done better," said Archie in a tone full of relief. "Well, sir, 'tain't much to talk about.
"To blazes wid you, and don't bother me no, I'm not I've tied my handkerchy about the place I was shot in, an' stopped the blood eh here well done, Mark hem Phil Hart, I mane bravo see that now instead of bleatin' like a dyin' sheep, I've stopped the blood, an' here I am able to stand and walk. Come," said he, approaching his companion, "where are you shot? let us see?"
"Well, then," observed the other mildly, "as soon as you get him the box, he'll give you this handkerchy, but not till then." "Ha!" she exclaimed, kindling, "is that his bargain; does he think I'd thrick him or cheat him? hand it here." "I can't," replied the other; "I'm only to give it to you when I get the box."
"No matther for that," he replied; "I want to play a thrick on Peggy Murray wid it, so as to have a good laugh against her the pair of us you wid the handkerchy, and me wid the tobaccy-box." "Very well," she replied. "Ha! ha! ha! that'll be great. At any rate, I've a crow to pluck wid the same Peggy Murray.
I did intend to stop while summer, but I shall quit to-morrow morning; and I will talk just as I please. For that matter, Mistress Remarkable, said Benjamin, theres none here who will contradict you; for Im of opinion that it would be as easy to stop a hurricane with a Barcelony handkerchy as to bring up your tongue when the stopper is off.
"Well, but he promised me a handkerchy; have you got it?" "I have," replied the other, producing it; "but, then, I'm not to give it to you, unless you give me the box for it." "But I haven't the box now," said Sarah, "how-and-ever, I'll get it for him." "Are you sure that you can an' will?" inquired the other. "I had it in my hand yesterday," she said, "an' if it's to be had I'll get it."
"Ay, an' pleasant nights, too, I hope," replied the other: "to be sure I'll call; but if you take my advice, you'd tie a handkerchy about your head; it's mad hot, an' enough to give one a fever bareheaded." Having made this last observation, he loaped across a small drain that bounded the meadow, and proceeded up the fields to Fardorougha's house.
"That's better," he muttered; "but I should like to dip his handkerchy in that fresh, cold water and lay it on his head." His hand was reached out to where he could just catch a glimpse of the scrap of linen in the lad's breast pocket; but he snatched his extended fingers back, and stepped away to where the basket and jar had been placed. "Do more harm than good," he muttered.
"Ay, ay, ay!" came in a low murmured growl. "Got out, sir," continued the proprietor, waving one hand about oratorically, and dabbing his bald head with his hand. "Here, some of you, where's my yellow handkerchy? Oh, I know; I left it in that there apple-wood, and I'd lay sixpence, he's picked it up and swallowed it because it's yellow and he thinks it's the skin of a big orange.
An', of a Sunday mornin', how she'd tie an my handkerchy, for I never could rightly tie it an myself, the knot was ever an' always too many for me; but, och, och, she'd tie it an so snug an' purty wid her own hands, that I didn't look the same man!
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