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Updated: June 1, 2025
'I tould you I was Cain, sez Love-o'-Women. 'Fwhat's the use av killin' him? He's an honest man by compare. "I was not dishputin' about the morils av Paythans that tide, so I dhropped Love-o'-Women's burt acrost the man's face, an' 'Hurry into camp, I sez, 'for this may be the first av a rush. "There was no rush afther all, though we waited undher arms to give thim a chanst.
"'Tention, says the docthor; an' Love-o'-Women stud so. 'Now shut your eyes, sez the docthor. 'No, ye must not hould by your comrade. "'Tis all up, sez Love-o'-Women, trying to smile. 'I'd fall, docthor, an' you know ut. "'Fall? I sez. 'Fall at attention wid your eyes shut! Fwhat do you mane? "The docthor knows, he sez. 'I've hild up as long as I can, but begad I'm glad 'tis all done.
Love-o'-Women wud stay pottin' an' pottin' from behind a rock, and wait till the fire was heaviest, an' thin stand up an' fire man-height clear. He wud lie out in camp too at night snipin' at the shadows, for he niver tuk a mouthful av slape.
At the verandah Love-o'-Women sez, catchin' his breath, 'Stop here, an' thin, an' thin, wid a grunt that must ha' tore the heart up from his stomach, he swung himself out av the doolie, an' my troth he stud up on his feet wid the sweat pourin' down his face. If Mackie was to walk in here now I'd be less tuk back than I was thin.
"'I'll take long an' long to die yet, he sez, 'for the ways av sin they're like interest in the rig'mintal savin's-bank sure, but a damned long time bein' paid. "The docthor sez to me quiet one day, 'Has Tighe there anythin' on his mind? he sez. 'He's burnin' himself out. "'How shud I know, Sorr? I sez, as innocent as putty. "They call him Love-o'-Women in the Tyrone, do they not? he sez.
"Love-o'-Women stud still in the sun widout answerin'. Thin he groaned an' coughed to wanst, an' I thought 'twas the death- rattle, but he niver tuk his eyes off her face not for a wink. Ye cud ha' put her eyelashes through the flies av an E. P. tent, they were so long.
'I was a fool to ask. Be wid him all you can. He's houldin' on to your strength. "'They call ut Locomotus attacks us, he sez, 'bekaze, sez he, 'ut attacks us like a locomotive, if ye know fwhat that manes. An' ut comes, sez he, lookin' at me, 'ut comes from bein' called Love-o'-Women. "'You're jokin', docthor, I sez. "'Jokin'! sez he.
'Terence is bloodin' you neat an' handy, he sez. 'He knows fwhat you do not, an' that's that there's a time for ivrything. He'll not lead you wrong, he sez, 'but I'd give a month's pay to larn fwhat he thinks av you. "That kept the babe quiet, but Love-o'-Women was pokin' at me for ivrything I did, an' specially my manoeuvres. "'Mr.
If ever your lyin' sowl saw truth in uts life ye know that. "An' Love-o'-Women lifted up his head and said, 'I knew, an' that was all. While she was spakin' the Power hild him up parade-set in the 'sun, an the sweat dhropped undher his helmet. 'Twas more an' more throuble for him to talk, an' his mouth was runnin' twistways. "Fwhat do you do here? she sez, an' her voice whit up.
But I will die slow, he sez, 'I will die very slow. "I cud see by the docthor's face that he was mortial sorry for the man, an' he ordhered him to hospital. We wint back together, an' I was dumbstruck; Love-o'-Women was cripplin' and crumblin' at ivry step. He walked wid a hand on my shoulder all slued sideways, an' his right leg swingin' like a lame camel.
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