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"I protest you hear? protest in sacred name of law; case of mish case of mistaken 'dentity. Not this Richardson take him away! Don't blame you: common name. Richardson I want has whiskers down to here, tiddy-fol-ol; calls 'em 'Piccadilly weepers. Can't mistake him. If at first you don't succeed, try, try again."
If England had made of Ireland a desert and called it peace, she had not marred its beauty. That was the thought in Colonel Sullivan's mind as he rode eastward under Slieve Mish, with the sun rising above the lower spurs of the mountain, and the lark saluting the new-born radiance with a song attuned to the freshness of the morning.
They may have come by Bantry Bay or the Kenmare River or Dingle Bay; more probably the last, for tradition still points to the battlefield where they were opposed, on the hills of Slieve Mish, above the Dingle fiord.
Well, off he went a twenty-mile drive; found the mission in a flutter I don't blame them armed with rifles and revolvers; expecting-every-moment-to-be-their-next sort of thing; and the town in an uproar. Some religious tamasha. He talked like a father to the headmen; and assured the 'mish' people it would be all right. "They begged him to stay and see them through.
"All ready, Mish' Mate?" he demanded, and proceeded to get his moorings in. The mud pilot came to the old Captain's side. "Captain," he said, "that man's drunk." The old man shuddered a little. "Don't make a noise," he said. "He he was married to-day." "Aye." The pilot shook his head. "You know me, Captain; it's not me that would give a son of yours away. But I can't let him bump her about.
She would not admit her lord's advantage, but sent forthwith to seek where another bull like the bull of Ailill might be found, and tidings were brought to her of the brown bull of Cuailgne, of Cuailgne named after a chief of the Sons of Milid, fallen ages ago in the pursuit of the De Danaans, when the De Danaans retreated before the Sons of Milid from the southern headland of Slieve Mish to the ford at green Tailten by the Boyne, and thence further northwards to where Cuailgne of the Sons of Milid was killed.
Only a handful of Europeans there; an American mission; and no troops. So the 'mish' people begged him to come in and politely wave his official wand. You must be very polite to badmashes these days, if you're a mere Sahib; or you hear of it from some little Tin God sitting safe in his office, hundreds of miles away.
"Say, boys, she's come," he shouted. "Bride's come. Git up, Bobby Trascom. Don't yer know ye mustn't lie down, when there's a lady present Van get out from under that table. Help me pick up these things. Place all in a mess. Glad to see you, Mish Endicott " He bowed low and staggered as he recovered himself. Starr turned her white face toward him: "Mr.
Brooks," she said in a tone that sobered him somewhat, "what does it mean? Is he dead?" "Not at all, not at all, Mish Endicott," he tried to say gravely. "Have him all right in plenty time. Just a little joke, Mish Endicott. He's merely shlightly intoxicated " But Starr heard no more.
"Mishtaken, my friend! I gave mos' admi'ble slipper in the worl', just ash you said, just as baroness said, to Mish Elisabeth Churchill mos' admi'ble woman in the worl'! Proud congrash'late you both, m' friend!" "Did you see her?" I gasped. "Did you see her father any of her family?" "God blesh me, no!" rejoined this young statesman. "Feelings delicacy prevented.
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