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"Would you loike to be afther looking for a 'coon to-night, Masther Roger?" he asked. "Quambo says he can come; and Yelp and Snap are moighty ager for the sport." I at once agreed to meet my two friends, accompanied by my dog Pop.
Neither of us stirred, staring into each other's bewildered faces, and before either fully realized the situation, the strong, suspicious hand of the law had gripped my shoulder. "Here, now, an' what the hell are ye oop too, me fine buck?" he questioned roughly, swinging me about into the light. "Give an account o' yer-self moighty quick, 'er I 'll run ye in."
T'others all seem moighty glad o' it: oi heard 'em shouting and, cheering in t' yard as if they was all mad." Captain Sankey shook his head. "I'm afraid the magistrates won't see it in that light, Harper; discipline is discipline. However, we must hope for the best."
"`Faith, I must complimint you, jintlemin, on the profound skill an' knowledge you have shown in your profession, says he. `I don't think I ivver heard a more ignorant or illeterate diagnosis of a case since I've been professor at Trinity College! "He was a moighty polite man was Professor Lancett.
How did you get this, eh?" "Faith, sor, the ould moon looked so moighty plisint that night that I took a lunar or two, jist to divart mesilf with, when Spokeshave wint below and there was nobody lift to poke fun at, sure!" "A very useful sort of amusement," said the skipper drily. "And I see, too, you've put in the distance we've run, by dead reckoning, as about another fifty miles or so?"
Some o' them had long sticks with a lump o' tow on the end, steeped in petroleum or something equally inflammable, an' whin they got the word to march the hero was in a brake they lit up and walked away in procession without looking at him at all, or taking any notice of him, which was moighty strange, I thought.
"It's little the loss to ye not ter be her, an' Oi'm thinkin' loikely Jack Keith will be moighty well plased ter know the truth. What's 'Black Bart' so ayger ter git hold av this Maclaire gyurl fer?" "I do not in the least know. He must have induced me to go to that place in the desert believing me to be the other woman. Yet he said nothing of any purpose; indeed, he found no opportunity." Mrs.
"He is going over the boat scene on the poop of our unfortunate vessel, when the Haytian blacks, as I told you, made at him and the other sailor before I rushed up from below, too late to save him, poor fellow!" explained the colonel. "He's calling out for help, as I suppose he did then, though I didn't hear him!" "It sounds moighty queer, anyhow," continued the Irishman. "Whisht!
"Begorrah, it's moighty sorry I am to hear that, now!" said he in a more serious tone. "Sure, and he was a foine, h'ilthy man entirely, barrin' that accident, bad cess to it! He moight have lived till a hundred, an' then aunly died of auld age; for he'd the constitution of an illiphent. Faith, I never saw such a chist and thorax on a chap in me loife before!" "Poor fellow!" observed the skipper.
But, faix, sor, a poor woman as the professor knows is took moighty bad in her inside, some of her neighbours says, an' wants help at onst! "`Who is it, O'Dowd? I asks. `Do you know where she lives? "`Mistress Flannagan's her name, says the porter. `She's Mistress Lancett's ould la'ndress, sor; a cantankerous ould woman, too, an' wid the divvle of a temper!
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