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I mind back in eighty-five or maybe 'twas eighty-three ut was whin O'Brien 'Flapjack' O'Brien they called him then, though he's climbed high enough since well, whin O'Brien was a plain, iveryday, thievin' conthractor, and a dom bad wan at that, he had a nephew named Burke that married a Finnegan or maybe ut was Finucane whose father pulled ould Sivinty-six, a wood-burnin' monsthrosity iv an ingin' that be th' grace iv God an' a full sand box might be good for a 3-per-cent grade anny dry day in summer but a Friday.
Now examine that monument, and tell me if the English don't know how to brag, as well as some other folks, and whether they don't brag too sumtimes, when they hante got no right to. There is four figures there a representing the four quarters of the globe in chains, and among them America, a crouchin' down, and a-beggin' for life, like a mean heathen Ingin.
The Tayloze of Mount Snaffle have Ingin blood in their veins the blood of Poky-huntus. They dropped the name of Taylor, which had got to be common through a want of Ingin blood, and spelled it with a E. It used to be Taylor, but now it's Tayloze."
They started off at once on the trail, and soon found that it led to an Indian rancheria, about eight miles up the Sacramento. This rancheria was, they believed, the refuge of the "Ingin varmints," as Joe While styled them, from whose depredations they were constantly suffering. Captain Sutter determined to take signal revenge.
"Come," added Gray, "you an' me'll jest put out together fer the Ingin kedentry ef you say so, and fetch up in Kansas under some fancy names, and take a hand in the wras'le that's agoin' on thar. Nobody'll ever track you. I've got a Yankton friend as'll help us through." "My friends, I'm ever so thankful to you " "Blame take yer thanks! Come along," broke in the Superior Being.
After a few moments of this silence he placed the reed to his lips and played a plaintive little air, and then he spoke to her in a strange voice, coming like a wind from distant places. "What is your name, Shepherd Girl?" said he. "Caitilin, Ingin Ni Murrachu," she whispered. "Daughter of Murrachu," said he, "I have come from a far place where there are high hills.
He stood up in the wagon where I'd put him, a looking out of the hole behind where the sheet was drawed together, and every time an Ingin was tumbled off his pony, he would clap his hands and yell, 'There goes another one, Uncle John! "After their last charge, they rode off out of range, where they stood in little bunches talking to each other, holding some sort of a pow-wow.
He feels that wrong has been shown his ancestors at their hands. I am glad, my child, that you were kind to the Indian." "Yes, mother, I love everybody; but I think I love those best who look as if no one cared for them. I suppose everybody loves poor Quady, only they forget to let him know it." "You like dat old Ingin, Sea-flower? why, he almost as black as Bingo hesef."
"Well, yes, I think I should have known it." "O go 'long! Somebody told you! But I swear, Mr. Fair, I wonder, sir, you're not more struck with Miss Halliday. Now, I go in for mind and heart. I don't give a continental for externals; and yet did you ever see such glorious eyes as Fan Miss Halliday's? Now, honest Ingin! did you, ever?" Mr. Fair admitted that Miss Halliday's eyes danced.
"Sposum you no want boat-hook, me make draw-knife of him. He steel, I s'pose." "Yes, Peter. The spike is very fine steel, I believe, as I told the blacksmith I wanted it light and sharp. If you want it you can have it; that is, if you feel sure you can make a knife." "Mos' all Ingin make own knife. You never see Ingin knife in store.
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