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All this you was on the p'int of losin' through bein' slow on your feet. Your father was the spriest koind of a b'y, I'm told. Only show him an errand, and he was off on it. Get some spryness into your feet if you want to be like your father, and run, now, to see Moike loight the fire. And don't be reachin' to take the match out of his hand, nayther. Your toime of fire buildin' will come."
He curbed his impatience and trudged with the troop. Once a man dropped back to light his pipe. He almost touched Rolf, and seeing a marching figure, asked in unmistakable accents "Oi soi matey, 'ave ye a loight?" Rolf assumed the low south country English dialect, already familiar through talking with prisoners, and replied: "Naow, oi oin't a-smowking," then gradually dropped out of sight.
"But I'll take a luk round." He looked all around, walked by the walls, gravely peered into the fireplace, and at length came back. "There's no one here," said he. "But I saw some one," said Mrs. Russell. "Shure, thin, it was no livin' man ye saw, an' there ye have it." "No living man!" screamed Mrs. Russell. "Shure no; how could it have been? Wouldn't I a seen him, an' me wid a loight?"
Arter climbing a short way he cooms to a hole i' rocks, joost big enough vor to squeeze through, but once inside it opened out into a big cave. A chap had struck a loight, and there war ten or twelve more on us thar. 'We had better wait another five minutes, says one, 'to see if any more cooms along. Arter that the tide ull be too high.
'Good-night, sir. 'God go with you, sir. 'A merry Christmas and a loight harrut to you, sir, for many a year. 'That's your man, nah, Sergeant, said one man out of the shadow in a tone that was learned in Rotherham, or very near it. 'Ah like Captain Volnay as mooch as ah like anybody.
Dang the chap, muttered John, looking into the empty dish as the waiter retired; 'does he ca' this a pie three yoong pigeons and a troifling matther o' steak, and a crust so loight that you doant know when it's in your mooth and when it's gane? I wonder hoo many pies goes to a breakfast!
As we mounted the rising ground which led to the building from that point, one of the village children a boy came close up to us, attracted by the light we carried, and recognised the clerk. "I say, measter," said the boy, pulling officiously at the clerk's coat, "there be summun up yander in the church. I heerd un lock the door on hisself I heerd un strike a loight wi' a match."
'Tis somethin' you larned from your father, and I'll not be denyin' it makes my heart loight." And then the talk went on to Andy's promotion to General Brady's kitchen. "Andy and me won't be a team then," put in little Jim. "I'll run things myself. I guess I can cook." "Well said, Jim!" cried his mother. "To be sure you can cook when you've larned how.
'Weel, then! said the Yorkshireman, striking the table heavily with his fist, 'what I say's this Dang my boans and boddy, if I stan' this ony longer. Do ye gang whoam wi' me, and do yon loight an' toight young whipster look sharp out for a brokken head, next time he cums under my hond. 'Mercy on us, what's all this? cried Miss Price, in affected astonishment.
They collided, and both sat down heavily on the floor. "It's kilt we are!" moaned Barney. "Dot peen near knockin' mine prains oud alretty yet!" declared Hans. "Loight th' lamp!! "Hel-lup! hel-lup! hel-lup!" In some way they scrambled to their feet, and both lunged for the door, which they beat upon with their fists, as if they would tear it down. "Docther!" bellowed Barney.
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