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The excitement and gush of daring with which they had plunged in was by that time expended, and the slow motion of the logs gave them time for reflection. O'Rook's lively fancy troubled him much. "If the baists would only attack a man in front," he muttered, "it's little I'd mind 'em, but to come up behind, sneakin' like hooroo!"
This culminated when a little man rushed suddenly into the room, and, with a wild "hooroo!" seized Molloy round the waist he wasn't tall enough to get him comfortably by the neck and appeared to wrestle with him. "It's Corporal Flynn or his ghost!" exclaimed Molloy. "Sure an' it's both him an' his ghost togither!" exclaimed the corporal, shaking hands violently all round.
O'Grady looked out of the window. "It's your father, Terence, and the prettiest girl I have seen since we left the ould country." He opened the door and got out. "Hooroo, major! Here we are, safe and sound. We didn't expect to meet you for another eight miles." Major O'Connor was hurrying to the door, but the girl was there before him. "Welcome home, Terence!
Had a bomb-shell fallen into the midst of the sleepers, it could scarcely have produced more commotion among them. Every one sprang up violently. "Hooroo!" shouted Larry O'Hale, "didn't I say so? Sure it's mysilf was draimin' of ould Ireland, an' the cabin in the bog wi' that purty little crature " He stopped abruptly, and added, "Och! captain dear, what's wrong?"
"I'm rejoiced to hear it," returned Miles; "for, to say the truth, I had been growing envious of your good fortune in being ordered on active service." "Hooroo, Armstrong, where away now?" cried an unmistakably Irish voice, as a smart little soldier crossed the street to them, and was introduced to Miles as Corporal Flynn, belonging to another company in his own regiment.
When he had finished breakfast, he mounted his horse and rode to the camp of his old regiment. "Hooroo, Terence!" Captain O'Grady shouted, as he rode up, "I thought you would be turning up, when there was going to be something to do. It's yourself that has the knack of always getting into the thick of it. "Orderly, take Colonel O'Connor's horse, and lead him up and down.
"I've seen that very thing at home, at The Dale, in the evening." He turned sharply and looked at his sister's flushed face and downcast eyes. "Hooroo!" he shouted. "A poetess! Oh, Lizzie. This is a terrible blow!" He fell back into his chair and fanned himself. "Do you really truly like it, John?" the author asked tremblingly.
The contending parties had scarce time to realise what was being done when the deed was completed, and a wild cheer burst from the townspeople, high above which there sounded a terrific "hooroo!" and next instant, Larry O'Hale, followed by Bunco, shot from the barricades, and charged the foe!
The U.! Hooroo! The Babbitts invited the McKelveys to dinner, in early December, and the McKelveys not only accepted but, after changing the date once or twice, actually came. The Babbitts somewhat thoroughly discussed the details of the dinner, from the purchase of a bottle of champagne to the number of salted almonds to be placed before each person.
Ryan, an' th' Dorgan fam'ly. I jined thim. They was a big crowd on th' peerary, a bigger crowd than ye cud get to go f'r to see a prize fight. Both sides had their frinds that give th' colledge cries. Says wan crowd: 'Take an ax, an ax, an ax to thim. Hooroo, hooroo, hellabaloo.
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