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"Aye," I said, "I had just been appointed missionary to a place called the Bowery, in New York, and I wrote her that I was no longer her plowman, but her fisher of men." "Och, maan, if ye cud haave heard her laugh over th' different kinds ov fishes ye wor catchin'! Iv'ry day for weeks she read it an' laughed an' cried over it.
Early the next morning Abel Stebbins made his appearance at Dudley Veneer's, and requested to see the maan o' the haouse abaout somethin' o' consequence. Mr.
We had mounted about 2000 feet since leaving the Tind Lake, and the dusky valley yawned far beneath us, its termination invisible, as if leading downward into a lower world. Many hundreds of feet below the edge of the wild little platform on which we stood, thundered the Maan in a cleft, the bottom of which the sun has never beheld.
'Too much, said Maan. 'Two hundred. 'Too much' 'One hundred. 'Too much' 'Fifty. 'Too much. At last the Bedouin came down to thirty diners; but Maan still replied, 'Too much. 'By Allah, cried the Bedouin, 'the man I met in the desert brought me ill luck!
Jamie seized the gun and the can and the man got up. They walked down the road in silence, each watching the other out of the corners of his eyes. "D'ye believe in God?" Jamie asked abruptly. The farmer hesitated before answering. "Why d'ye ask?" "I'd like t' see a maan in these times that believed wi' his heart insted ov his mouth!"
"Th' biggest hope I've ever had was t' bear a chile that would love everybody as yer father loved me!" "A sort of John-three-sixteen in miniature." "Aye." "The aim is high enough to begin with!" "Not too high!" "And your religion?" "All in all, it's bein' kind an' lovin' kindness. That takes in God an' maan an' Pogue's entry an' th' world." The town clock struck twelve.
Aych poor craither is made up ov some good an' much that isn't s' good, an' ye see only what isn't s' good! "Thin she towld m' somethin' which she niver towld aanyone else, 'cept yer Dah, ov coorse. 'Willie, says she, 'fur twenty years I've seen th' Son ov Maan ivery day ov m' life! "'How's that? says I. "'I've more'n seen 'm. I've made tay fur 'im, an' broth on Sunday.
Naturally enough the Irishman continued talking, although it was certain that the one could not understand a word the other uttered. "We maan no harrum," said the Irishman, raising his hands and letting them fall at his side, to show that he carried no weapons, and held good will toward the stranger.
Water bottles and rations were carried in the machines, but they were not needed, for the three pilots came home together after hitting the station buildings at Maan and destroying considerable material and supplies. The aeroplane has been put to many uses in war and, it may be, there are instances on other fronts of it being used, in emergencies, as an ambulance.
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