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Not a moment is to be lost on your landing in England." "Mike!" cried I, "how look the cattle for a journey?" "The chestnut is a little low in flesh, but in great wind, your honor; and the black horse is jumping like a filly." "And Badger?" said I. "Howld him, if you can, that's all; but it's murthering work this, carrying despatches day after day."
"Now, lads," said Cuttance after he was gone, "not wan word of this must ever be breathed, and we'll howld 'ee responsible, David Hicks, for t' wife's tongue; dost a hear?" This was agreed to by all, and, to the credit of these honest smugglers, and of Mrs Hicks, be it said, that not a syllable about the incident was ever heard of in the parish of St. Just from that day to this!
"Askin' yer pardon, sir, I did," began the man, unsteadily, and evidently struggling with the fumes of the liquor he had been drinking; but before he could speak again, Mrs. Clancy's shrieks rang out on the still air: "Oh, for the love of God, howld him, some o' ye's! He'll kill him! He's mad, I say! Shure 'tis I that know him best. Oh, blessed Vargin, save us!
"Faix, that's what meself thinks too," muttered Larry between his teeth, "for these cords on me wrists would howld a small frigate, an' there's a black thief just forenint me, who has never tuk his eyes off me since we wos catched. Ah, then, if I wor free I would make ye wink, ye ugly rascal. But how comes it, Mister Trapper, that ye seem to be so sure o' escapin'?"
Howld down with y'r bouncing nonsense, lad, and the saints be with ye; for it's a fight there'll be, and there is the fightin' stuff of a soldier in ye! Never turn to me mind ye never turn to help me, or the curse of the fool be on y'r head and the Lord be with us!" "Amen." But I spoke to vacancy. While a rising wind set the branches overhead grating noisily, he had risen and darted away.
Won't you please make us a treat today, Mary Ellen? Jam tarts or some sticky sort of cake like you see in the pastry shop window." "That's the very thing I was goin' to speak about, my dear," Mary Ellen replied, "if ye'll jist howld yer horses." "Now, as well ye know, I've worked here manny a long month, and I've had followers a-plinty, yit there's noan o' thim I like the same as Mr.
"But, miss, hear-rt-hunger has kilt more good min thin belly-hunger ye'll foind th' broth in yon buckut." He joined the half-breed, who waited in silence. At the door he turned and again addressed the girl. "In th' big buckut's ye're oun snack. Ate ut befoor ut gits cowld. Phwin ye're done, wake um up an' make um dhrink some coffee an' all he c'n howld av th' broth.
As he drew near he observed a boat pushing off from the shore. "Howld on!" shouted a well-known voice; "sure it's himself after all." "Come along, young sir, you're late, and had well-nigh lost your passage," growled Captain Blathers.
"If it wasn't that I'm a poor widdy woman, I'd I'd " "Howld yer tongue, Mother Lynch," whispered a lively youth of about nineteen by her side, who obviously hailed from the same country. "It's not aggravatin' him that'll do him good. Let him be, darlin', and he'll soon blow the steam off."
The Irishman grinned in appreciation. "Howld on a minut," he said to Abe who was moving away with Texas Joe toward a vacant table. Then to the stranger: "I axe yer pardon, Sorr, for goin' off me head that way. 'Tis a habit I have, worse luck to me bein' sensitive, do ye see, about me personal appearance an' some wishful for a bit av honest enjoyment.
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