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At least no other source of information appeared to offer any better prospects, so with some distaste he sought out Murphy at the pool room. He began by tactfully remarking about the changes from the old times, to which Murphy agreed. "You've lived here since before the Falls was built, haven't you, Murphy?" asked Wilding, after Snake had expressed some contempt for new times and new ways.
He realized fully the imminent peril haunting the next two hundred miles, but such danger was not wholly unwelcome to his peculiar temperament; rather it was an incentive to him, and, without a doubt, he would manage to pull through somehow, as he had done a hundred times before. Even Indian-scouting degenerates into a commonplace at last. So Murphy puffed contentedly at his old pipe.
Yen're a good girl, and I am very happy to learn of your engagement to Captain Murphy. He is a splendid fellow and I am sending him back to Papeete in command of our Amelia Ricks, which has been fitted up as a wrecker, to raise the Valkyrie.
It is very well to go over places like that when you know the way and what you are likely to bring up against, but I did not know the way and had to pin my faith blindly on Murphy, who had taken me over rotten ice during the day ice that waved up and down with our weight and sometimes broke behind us.
"Well, I'll speak to the fellow for you, Noah," McBride suggested, and darted out of the cabin to interview the said Murphy. Two minutes later he was back. "Sorry, Noah, but Murphy says he wouldn't sign up for a trip to Cape Town at chief mate's wages." "I'm sorry, too, Mac," Captain Noah answered resignedly. "I'm sorry you're such a liar.
Anxious that I should miss none of the wonders of their old gold-field, the good people had much to say about the marvelous beauty of Cave City Cave, and advised me to explore it. This I was very glad to do, and finding a guide who knew the way to the mouth of it, I set out from Murphy the next morning.
"Tim Murphy, who was brutally beaten by 'Gink' Cummings' thugs yesterday, died at the Clara Barton hospital as a result of his injuries late today," Brennan said over the phone. At the other end of the wire a reporter was taking the dictation on a typewriter.
A shovel is a deadly weapon in the hands o' wan o' these fellys." Murphy went forward to the galley, and soon had pried out a solid, well-preserved brick from under the stove in the galley floor, against the aggrieved protest of the Chinese cook. "Dry up, ye Chink," said Murphy. "Tell me, though, what's the bill o' fare for the forecastle. Mate three times a day?"
During the summer season of 1761, at Drury Lane, Murphy and Foote endeavoured "From Pantomime to free the stage And combat all the ministers of the age," by ridiculing the popular amusement in having the character of Harlequin hung in full view of the audience in a play entitled "The Wishes."
"Begorra, Michael, me poor lad," he whispered, "be the look av the white face of you I'm thinkin' ye ought to be in bed instid av out raisin' ructions." "I'm weak; I have a fever," Murphy replied. "Still, half that fever may be plain lunatic rage. Did you find a gun on the mate?" "I did. Take it, Michael, I'll have nothin' to do wit' it." The skipper grasped the weapon eagerly.
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