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They all looked up as we entered, and Katty in her eagerness upset the basin as she sprang forward to throw herself into Uncle Boz's arms. She instantly ran back and took Jack by the hand, crying out, "Dear Jack couldn't help it. If he bigger, he wouldn't let naughty smuggler carry me away." They had not been ill-treated; the old Frenchman especially had been very kind to them.
Thin I seldom seen your beautiful head without thinkin' of a carrot, an' it's well known they're related ha, ha, ha! Behave, Pether behave, I say Pether, Pether ha, ha, ha! let me alone! Katty Hacket, take him away from me ha, ha, ha!" "Will ever you, you shaver wid the tongue that you are? Will ever you, I say? Will ever you make delusion to my head again eh?"
The instant they had fairly moved away, she turned and ran in, in a hurry to look after the salt-cellars, and to see that Katty hadn't got the table-cloth diagonal to the square of the room instead of parallel, or committed any of the other general-housework horrors which she detailed herself on daily duty to prevent. Barbara stood behind the blind.
Coolahan, a taciturn person, with a blue-black chin and a gloomy demeanour. "Where had ye it last?" he demanded. "I seen Katty Ann with it in the cow-house, sir," volunteered a small female Coolahan from beneath the flap of the counter. Katty Ann, with a vindictive eye at the tell-tale, vanished. "That the Lord Almighty might take me to Himself!" chanted Mrs. Coolahan. "Such a mee-aw!
Some few months ago an aged couple from Colne, named Hewit, took possession of part of the hall, and were suffered to remain there, though old Katty Hewit, or Mould-heels, as she is familiarly termed by the common folk, is in no very good repute hereabouts, and was driven, it is said from Colne, owing to her practices as a witch.
When we got back we found Aunt Deb in a state of agitation at the non-appearance of Katty and Jack. Bambo had gone out to look for them, and had not returned. We, of course, ran off immediately to the beach, expecting to find them there. Neither up nor down on the beach were they to be seen. We ran to where our boat was moored in the little harbour; she was not there.
A little before the mass had been finished, Father Philemy arrived; but, as Phaddy and Katty were then preparing to resave they could not at that moment give him a formal reception. As soon, however, as communion was over, the cead millia failtha was repeated with the usual warmth, by both, and by all their immediate friends.
"How are you, Myles?" and "Well, Feemy, how's yourself?" and then, having reached the hall door, he took the fond girl in his arms and kissed her. "Ah; don't then, Myles; there's Katty on the stairs; come in then, and take your punch;" and they entered the room where Larry was sitting over the fire. "How are you this evening, Sir?" said Ussher, "this fine night."
They all now lay at rest in the burying-ground of the church we went to that memorable Christmas morning. We little thought at the time that there would be soon so many fresh occupants. The lady soon sank under the effects of her exposure on the stormy ocean that bitter winter's day. Her baby followed, and her husband did not survive many days. Katty alone of the family remained.
"Heaven's blessing on you, Feemy, my daughter; may you live many happy years with the man you love." Feemy soon left him, and went to bed, and Katty, who had been dispatched to Drumsna, returned with her mistress's small box, and a kind message from Mrs. McKeon: "Her kind love to Miss Macdermot; she hoped she had felt the walk of service to her, and she would call some time during the next week."
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