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You came here to bring shame and distress on an honest girl, you, an old soldier and an Irishman, the first soldier and the first Irishman I ever knew to be guilty of so low and contemptible a piece of persecution. When I write to Major Cranston of this, and when I tell McGrath " "Don't be hard on me, lieutenant. I meant no harm to the lady at all. Sure the bill's been unpaid ever since October.
Half an hour later Mayor McGrath entered the premises of the Thomas Jefferson Club, which was situated in the rear end of a saloon and pool room far down in the town. "Boys," he said to Alderman O'Hooligan and Alderman Gorfinkel, who were playing freeze-out poker in a corner behind the pool tables, "you want to let the boys know to keep pretty dark and go easy.
McGrath," he began, "and it's well since you're out so early, that it's not the other way you went, for I'd been greatly bothered if I hadn't found you." "But here I am, you see, and if it was only after me you were going, I suppose you can turn, for I'm going to Drumsna." "Oh to be sure I can; don't you be going, Denis McGovery."
Patrick swam over the Liffey with his head under his arm. `Bad luck to that Father McGrath, cried I; `devil burn me, but I'll be revenged upon him! "By that time we had arrived at the door of my father's house. I paid the rapparee, and in I popped.
He slapped the legs of his pantaloons vigorously in spots, moved his arms uneasily, took off his shirt-collar and implored me to look down his back. "There's nothing there," I reported. "I know how it is myself: a fellow always feels that way when he goes to sleep in the grass." "Any woodticks here?" he asked. "Begorra! plenty," said Mr. McGrath, sitting up.
But if, in the enthusiasm of unlooked-for victory, they did not perceive how little, in reality, was their gain, McGrath was far from being unaware how great was his own.
I'll make out a paper for both of you to sign, after which you can kick-off when you please." All this was satisfactory to McGrath and his comrade and the paper having been duly signed, they set about examining the engine so as to learn whether it could have been injured in any way from the storm of missiles that came aboard during the hostilities so lately ended.
I had an idea that I ought to help in the work, and was trying to do so, altho so weak from illness that it required some effort to walk straight. But a big, black haired, black bearded Irishman, Owen McGrath of my company, one of the squad, objected. He laid a big hand kindly on my shoulder, and said: "Carparral, yez is not sthrong enough for this worrk, and yez don't have to do it, ayether.
Yet, in twenty minutes, each submarine boy found himself in the duty uniform of a United States junior naval officer, each uniform adorned with the insignia of the wearer's rank. In the meantime, dress-suit cases had been procured from a store near by. "All right and proper," nodded Ensign McGrath.
"If that's your opinion of the Union," said McGrath sullenly, "it might be interesting to hear your opinion of me." "You are perfectly welcome to it," replied the Lieutenant-Governor easily. "I consider you an unmitigated blackguard!" Governor Abbott tipped back his chair and looked at McGrath. "That's pretty plain talk," he said. "You see how it is, Mr. McGrath.
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