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None the less they would swear no oaths but those of their own making, which were rare and curious, and they were always at pains to impress Mulcahy with the risks they ran. Naturally the flood of beer wrought demoralisation.
Cautiously as he had been instructed, tenderly and with much beer, Mulcahy opened his projects to such as he deemed fittest to listen.
The clock was striking twelve as I walked down the village, for the story of Mulcahy always took an hour in the telling, and I went away not quite so downhearted as when the present was first made to me. "After all," thought I, "a diamond-pin is a handsome thing, and will give me a distingue air, though my clothes be never so shabby" and shabby they were without any doubt.
Mulcahy with a beaming smile. "Faix, that's a turn the right way anyhow. But have ye thought o' yer clothes, me dear?" "Clothes?" repeats the professor vaguely.
He pulls the bell. The landlady appears again. "I must go out," says the professor, staring a little helplessly at her. "An' a good thing too," says she. "A saint's day ye might call it, wid the sun. An' where to, sir, dear? Not to thim rascally sthudents, I do thrust?" "No, Mrs. Mulcahy. I I am going to see a young lady," says the professor simply. "The divil!" says Mrs.
"There's a grand hotel, so there is," said the station master, "the same that's kept by Mrs. Mulcahy, and devil the better you'll find between this and Dublin." Sir James looked from one man to the other in astonishment. Nowadays the public is accustomed to large demands from railway workers, demands for higher wages and shorter hours.
Would you like to thry the taste of one? The Kerry man looked and longed, but forbore. The odds of battle were too great. 'Then you'll not even give Mulcahy a a strike for his money, said the voice of Horse Egan, who regarded what he called 'trouble' of any kind as the pinnacle of felicity. Dan answered not at all, but crept on tip-toe, with large strides, to the mess-room, the men following.
Mulcahy, looking into it. "Is it an oath?" "It's the Joggraphy of one I swore some time ago; but it's now out of date I'm done wid it." The priest could not avoid smiling when he perused it, and on getting from Peter's lips an explanation of the hieroglyphics, he laughed heartily at the ingenious shifts they had made to guide his memory.
Fine morning after very cool night. Thermometer at daylight, 60 deg. Mulcahy and Ashton both looking better, but both came to me, and said if I would allow them they would take three weeks' rations and camp for a spell on the river, and perhaps I would send help after them.
'And he told us by word of mouth to go and join with the niggers you've forgotten that, Dan, said Horse Egan, to justify sentence. 'What's the use of plaguin' the man? One shot pays for all. Sleep ye sound, Mulcahy. But you onderstand, do ye not?
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