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"By gar!" broke in Louis Savoy, "dat is no, vot you call, josh! I know one mans, so vaire beeg like ze buffalo. Wit him, on ze Sulphur Creek stampede, go one small mans, Lon McFane. You know dat Lon McFane, dat leetle Irisher wit ze red hair and ze grin. An' dey walk an' walk an' walk, all ze day long an' ze night long. And beeg mans, him become vaire tired, an' lay down mooch in ze snow.
Come back till we put the suggaun* about your neck. Bah! You now must go to school to Cambridge agin, before you can argue an Irisher! Look at the figure he cuts! Why duv ye put the one foot past the other, when ye walk, for? Bah! Dunce!"
On'y a Irisher lady what lives by our house, she says mine friend is a Irisher." "Very well, dear; then of course he's a Christian," Miss Bailey assured him, "and I shan't interfere with you to-morrow you may stay at home and play with him. But we can't let it go on, you know. This kind of thing never would do when your mother comes back from the hospital.
This is a kind of open-air market where men and women sit in the shade, spinning, weaving, and selling fruits and vegetables with one incessant flux of tongue. Here, too, amongst the heaps, and intimately mixed with the naked infantry, stray small goats, pretty and deer-shaped, and gaunt pigs, sharp-snouted and long-legged as the worst Irisher.
"Tell Nick all about him," answered the Indian, evasively "No read no hear don't talk much talk most wid Irisher can't understand what he want say t'ing one way, den say him, anoder." "Mike is not very lucid of a certainty," rejoined the captain, laughing, all the party joining in the merriment "but he is a sterling good fellow, and is always to be found, in a time of need."
Then he spat, for luck, on a ball he dropped into his fusil, said a Glassary charm on it as he rammed home the charge and brought the butt to his cheek, aiming at a white-faced Irisher with a leathern waistcoat, who fell backward into a dub of mud and stirred no more. "Four!" said John; "I could scarcely do better with my own French fusil Main Og."
"Weel, Andrew Andy I do just suppose as muckle; gin ye war considered Scotch, muckle more might be expeck' frae you than, being an Irisher as you are, you could be prepared to answer to; whereas " "Why, hang it, man alive, we can give three answers for your one." "Weel, but how is that now, Andy?
Whereupon she said she was in favour of moving by the light of the sun, and payin' no attention at all to the moon. Which I thought was a very intelligent arrangement. You see, if they move in the daytime the damned old moon won't know anything about it till it's too late and " "You're the first Irisher I've ever seen who wasn't superstitious, Mike," broke in Fitts, with enthusiasm.
''Tis the mother will give the poor Irisher a lodgin' and a drop o' the cratur, cried that mother's well-beloved eldest born almost catching her up in his arms, and smothering her with kisses. 'And the masther isn't so hard-hearted as he looks, he added, shaking the astonished farmer by the hand.
It was infuriating, but there just was nothing that could be done about it. Stan watched O'Malley as he roared after a Jerry. "Come back, Irisher. They're just tricking you out of gas," he called. "The spalpeens!" O'Malley roared, but he zoomed up and over, then tailed in after Red Flight which was heading for home. Stan saw the Me's dive down to overtake and attack the Forts and Libs.
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