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What ought I to do?" The Irish mouth of Kate Murphy set firmly, her blue eyes burning. "It's not sthrong Oi am on advisin'," she said, shortly, "but if it was me Oi'd be fer foindin' out what all this mix-up was about. There's somethin' moighty quare in it. It's my notion that Hawley's got hold av thim papers av yer father's.
"Wil, in troth, they looked more loike oats than anything I can recollect. Shure they did look moighty like oats!" "An' don't ee kalkerlate they'd a looked more like oats, ef they'd been pointed at both ends instead o' one!" "In troth, would they all that same." "We-ell, thet's the very idee thet kem inter my mind at the time." "Arrah now, is it? An' fwhat did yez do wid the pegs then?"
"And they bring him in wid all the mustachios and moighty fine curls of him, and his diamonds, rings, and pins all a-glistening just like his eyes when he set 'em on that suffering saint. "'Is it anythin' you're wantin, Sarah dear? sez he, thryin' to spake firm. And Sarah looks at him, and then looks at a tumbler on the table.
An' who would tak toime to foind out whin ther's so miny uv their own. Mikky was allus welcome to a bite an' a sup ef any uv us had it by. There wuz old Granny Bane with the rheumatiks. She gave him a bed an' a bite now an' agin, till she died, an afther that he made out to shift fer hisse'f. He was a moighty indepindint babby." "But had he no other name? Mikky what?
Accordingly, having verified my figures, and pricked off the brig's position on the chart, I made my way up on deck, and informed O'Gorman of the state of affairs. "So we're actually now in the moighty Pacific, eh?" he exclaimed in high elation. "Bedad that's good news, annyhow, and we'll cilibrate the occasion by takin' an exthry tot o' grog all round, and dhrinkin' shuccess to the v'yage.
"Me name's Tim Rooney, as I tould you afore, Misther Gray- ham sure, an' it's fond I am ov bacon, avic, an' ham, too, by the same token! I'd have ye to know, as ye're a foorst-class apprentice which kills me enthirely wid the laffin' sure! that I'm the bosun av the Silver Quane; an' as we're agoin' to be shipmets togither, I hopes things'll be moighty plisint atwane us, sure."
"Sure an' you're a foine gintleman, taking it aisy," said Pat Doolan, when I went up to him. "An' is it a pannikin o' coffee you'll be afther wanting, this watch?" "I shouldn't refuse it if you offered it," said I, with a laugh. "Be jabers, you're the bhoy for the coffee!" he replied cheerily. "An' its meeself that's moighty proud to sarve you.
But this un isn't thet koind of a man, an' he's so moighty perlite about it Oi jist cud n't sind the loikes of him away. It's 'Missus Guffy, me dear madam, wud ye be koind enough to convey me complimints to Misther Robert Hampton, and requist him to grant me a few minutes of his toime on an important matter? Sure, an' what do ye think of thet?"
"Plenty of paddies on all the streams about here," replied the native. "And they can't oondershtand Kilkenny Greek! They're moighty quare paddies, thin." "They are; and I am very sure they won't answer you when you speak to them with that brogue," added Louis. "We will let that discussion rest till we come to the paddies," interposed the captain, as he completed his toilet, and left the cabin.
Clapping his hat on one side of his head, and with such an insolent cant forward that it quite obscured his left eye, Pat rested his hands on his hips, and with one foot thrust out sidewise, he fixed his right eye on his employer with the expression of sardonic contemplation, and then delivered himself as follows: "The takin' up a few minits o' yer toime is a moighty tirrible waste, but the sindin' of a human bain to the divil is no waste a' tall a' tall: that's the way ye rason, is it?
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