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"Mester," he said, "if theer's ivver owt to be done as is hard an' loike to bring pain an' danger, yo'll yo'll not forget me?" Langley looked down at him with a mingled feeling of warm pity and deep bewilderment. "Forget you?" he echoed.
"Though the vain, silly ould crayture bate Banagher for flirtin' an', indade, bates ivviry other of her sex, God bless 'em, that I've ivver clapt eyes on yet that quare little Frenchy chap, her husband, he, the little sparrow, must neades git jallous, an' makes out it's all my fault, an', belave me, a nice toime I had o' it altogether.
He ain't workin' at all, at all, bad cess to him, who ivver he is, fur I can't say him at all, at all!" "Whoi, I be a-shuvvin' and a-shuvvin' all the time," rejoined a voice whose accents were strangely familiar to me. "You pull yerself, maister, and stop hollerin' at Oi!"
Allow me to till ye too, Monsieur Boisson, that if ye dare to hint at sich a thing ag'in whilst I'm in command of this ship, the ounly satisfaction ye'll ivver have out of me in the rap-here way will be a rap on the h'id wid this shtick of moine here, you recollict, joist to thry the stringth of y'r craynium, begorrah!
"Don't be so hard-hearted," said he imploringly. "If you only knew how hungry we were, I'm sure you would forgive us with your usual good- nature." "I'm not so certain of that," replied she. "'Deed, and I won't." "Besides, we enjoyed them so, do you know," continued the old sailor, chuckling away at a fine rate. "Sure they were mighty fine, ma'am. The best soles I ivver ate, sure."
"`Faith, I must complimint you, jintlemin, on the profound skill an' knowledge you have shown in your profession, says he. `I don't think I ivver heard a more ignorant or illeterate diagnosis of a case since I've been professor at Trinity College! "He was a moighty polite man was Professor Lancett.
She be that stubborn! said she, turnin' to us; `did ye ivver see anythin' loike it afore? "Mahony then tould her to put out her tongue, but the divvle a bit of her tongue saw we!
"Tell us," inquired Joblins, the `green hand, you may recollect, who went on deck to fetch his second lot of grog with a spud-net and who, though he had been made a bit sharper since then by the chaff and jokes of his messmates, was still not by any means bright, "did yer ever see one o' them ghostesses?" "Hev Oi ivver sane wun?" repeated Mick, in a tone of intense scorn.
A loud explosion of mirth drowned the rest. "Hurrah! for Queen Lynch," cried one. "The Royal blood of owld Ireland for ivver!" shouted Malone. "I wouldn't," said the widow indignantly, "condescind to reign over sitch a nation o' pigs, av ye was to go down on yer bare knees an' scrape them to the bone.
"Faith," said Mick, on my telling him this, "it'll be moighty onplisint fur ye, Tom, me bhoy; thet gimblet oye ov his sames to go roight thro' an' thro' me, begorrah, if he ivver onst looks at me sure!" I did not mind Mick's chaff, though. The captain had been a good friend to me while I had been on board, and I parted with him with as much regret as I felt when I said `good-bye' to `Gyp.
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