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He floundered about in the water for some minutes, completely bewildered. Occasionally he would disappear; then come to the surface, half suffocated, to again stumble, fall, and disappear; all the time calling for "Hilp! hilp! hilp!"
"No, Mike; I'll send for ye to cut 'im up an' pack 'im." "Now ye talk," said Mike; and this little overture of friendly confidence became a door through which he could enter a subject more profoundly interesting to him than that which related to his favorite quadruped. "What kind of an owld woman have ye got, Jim? Jist open yer heart like a box o' tobacky, Jim, an' lit me hilp ye.
In fwhat fashion he puts th' wind up 'him, I do not know; they will not talk, out av pure kindness av heart an' rispict for meself, I guess. But a few days here, an' bingo! they apply for thransfer. Now ye know ivrythin', bhoy fwhat I am up against, an' fwhy I will not 'can' Yorkey. Ye've a face that begets thrust do not bethray ut, but thry an' hilp me.
"On deck, there!" presently called out Tim Rooney from beneath, his voice sounding hollow and far off. "Some av ye bind owver the coamin' av the hatch an' hilp us to raise the poor divil!"
"I didn't feel aisy," said Patsey, as he walked off in company with his young friend, "when I left ye in that place, and I hadn't been gone long whin I made up me mind to go back and fix it, whither the boss was mad or no. Whin I arrived the throuble was over, and ye had started out. I had to guess which way ye wint, but I seemed to hit it, and I was able to do ye a little hilp."
A few minutes later Appleton stamped into the cook-shack. "Did you find him, Daddy?" he asked. The old man shook his head. "He ain't in th' camp," he muttered. "He tuk Jack's gun whilst he slep' an' ut's huntin' he's gone Lard hilp um!" "Where is Bill?" the lumberman inquired. "Av ye're quick, ye may catch um in th' office av ye ain't Oi'm thinkin' ye niver will foind um.
I cudn't hilp it, Misther Allen, I cudn't nohow," heading off any criticism from that quarter "she wud have it, and that's th' ind iv it. I'm thinkin' that's why they named her Miss Pat 'tis th' Irish persistency iv her name that crops out, an' th' cajolery. I cudn't hilp it, nohow." "Of course he couldn't help it." Patricia assented. "I had to see you, and some one had to show me where you lived.
She scr'ams, 'Me father! me father! Mary, he is murdered! Go to the library! An' thin she wint over in me arms loike a stone, poor dear, poor dear!" And the domestic began to weep afresh. "What did you do then?" "Sure, phat could Oi do? Oi scr'amed fer hilp as loud as Oi could, an' thin Mrs. Bardon an' her son, Alfred, the docthor, came over." "What happened next?"
"To th' office wid um!" roared Fallon in Stromberg's ear as they milled across the clearing. "Th' b'ys'll crowd th' bunk-house till they hindher more thin hilp!" The boy responded quickly to vigorous treatment and stimulants and was removed to his own bunk and placed under the able care of his Aunt Margaret and Mrs. Sheridan.
"Don't we, Cath'lics an' Protistints aloike, for there's little to choose atwane us on the p'int, contint oursilves wid as little as we can hilp, goin' once to chapel or church, mebbe, av a Sunday an' thinkin' we've wiped out all the avil we may a-done in the wake, an' have a clane sheet for the nixt one jist as this poor ig'rant haythin booms his goold paper afore his joss an' thinks that clears off all his ould scores.
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