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His bewildered brain was puzzling over a weighty problem. "The lieutenant's safe all right," he muttered, "but what's gone wid the squaw that was shoutin' Sioux at that murdherin' buck?" Meantime all Fort Frayne had seemed to wake to life. No call had sounded on the trumpet.
"Here, you murdherin' divil, get down aff that harse," said the Iron Brigade, who had got awake enough to see that the rebel was on his horse. "Take this mule, and lave a dacent gintleman's harse alone." The rebel smiled, dismounted, gave the Irishman his horse, mounted the mule, and we started for camp.
Well, she an' I married when we got to Boston; but God never blessed us wid a family; and Toddy here, who tuk the life of a pedlar, came back afther many a long year, with a good purse, and lived with us. At last I began to long for home, and so we all came together. The Prophet's wife was wid us, an' another passenger tould me that Con here had been suspected of murdherin' me.
Th' on'y man ye need to be afraid iv is th' man that's afraid iv ye. An' that's what makes a tyrant. He's scared to death. If I'd thought about it whin I r-read iv me frind murdherin' people I'd've known they'd find him thremblin' in a room an' shootin' at th' hired girl whin she come in with his porridge. So I'm glad afther all that I didn't put in me application. I want no man to fear me.
"Don't the government promise protection to its citizens? Is not the blissed stars and stripes insulted by the British? Have not they set the murdherin' haythin to killin' innocent women and children on the frontier, and have they surrendered the posts as they should?" Mr. Crane, with one wave of his hand, swept away every objection. "That is all nothing!" he cried.
"Why, then, honest man," said Denis's friend, "that's a murdherin' fine dhrove o' bullocks you're bringin' to the fair?" "Ay!" replied the grazier, "you may say that. I'm thinkin' it wouldn't be asay to aquil them." "Faix, sure enough. Where wor they fed, wid simmission?" "Up in Teernahusshogue. Arrah, will you tell me what weddin' was that that passed awhile agone?"
"Ay, but how can we help him, Frank? Oh, bedad, it 'ud be a murdherin' shame, all out, to let the crathur die by himself, widout company, so it would." "No one wul take him in, for fraid o' the sickness. Why, I'll tell you what we'll do: Let us shkame the remainder o' this day off o' the Major, an' build a shed for him on the road-side here, jist against the ditch. It's as dhry as powdher.
"More power to you!" said Anthony, impiously personifying the storm; "sure that's one proof that God doesn't throuble his head about what we do, or we would not get such a murdherin' fine night as is in it any how. That's it! blow and tundher away, an' keep yourself an' us, as black as hell, sooner than we should fail in what we intend! Anne, your health, acushla! Yours, Dinny!
"Of use! an' how would we account for being there at all, Connor? how would you do it, at any rate, widout maybe bringin' the girl into blame?" "You're right agin, Bartle; I'm not half so cool as you are; our best plan is to go home " "And go to bed; it is; an' the sooner we're there the better; sowl, Connor, you gev me a murdherin' crash."
"I'm thinking, sir, if I were to kill him, what I must do after." "Right, my boy; nothing like it; but 1811 will settle all for ye. I don't believe, now that America is on the verge of war with the British, that my one will make much of a row for killin' the murdherin' baste. Are ye a good shot?" "I am with a rifle; but I never could do anything to speak of with a pistol." "I don't moind that.
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