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Faix it's mysilf is plazed to git ashore anyhow, for there's nothin' gone into my intarior since brickfust this mornin'." At this moment the bow of the other canoe grated on the sand, and Frank Morton leaped ashore. "Capital place to camp, Frank," said Stanley, who had just finished pitching the tent on the scrimp herbage that forced its way through the sand.
I knowed it by its smallness, and by the print of them odd-shaped nails in your heel. Well, you see, that just set me wild. I knowed at once that by some hook or crook you had give the spalpeens the slip, and was wandering round kind of lost like mysilf.
Why should I give it? I don't know you." "It's not for mysilf that I want it. There's a friend of your father in trouble. When I saw the sign with your name on it I came in to tell you." "What sort of trouble?" "That's a long story. Did you iver hear of Dave Dingwell?" "Yes. I've never met him, but he put me through law school." "How come that?" "I was living in Denver with my aunt.
"I know what Manilla cables are, and I've heard tell o' Manilla cigars, though I've never smoked 'em; but a Manilla guernsey why, who ever came across sich an outlandish thing?" "Be jabers, I have, boatswain," cried Pat Doolan. "Sure, an' I made it mysilf; so, if you'll listen, I'll till ye all about it."
"And what have you got there?" asked Mrs. O'Callaghan when he dragged it into the house. "A sled!" cried Barney and Tommie together, pausing on their bedward way, and opening wide their sleepy eyes. "And 'twas mysilf was wonderin' how to get Larry along with me!" exclaimed the mother when Mike had explained the object of the sled. "What's the good of me wonderin' when I've got Moike for my b'y?
"What things'll I put in the wagin, sur?" "Your baggage, your clothes," said I. "Shure, sur, ef I put my clothes in the wagin, it's little I'd hev to wear mysilf," answered the boy. "Well, well, then, go with Ned; he'll show you what to do."
She followed him to the door and, putting her head outside, said softly, "You may kape still if you want to, Pat dear, but 'tis mysilf as knows you've somethin' on your moind." "Well, then, mother," prophesied Pat with a laughing backward glance, "I think Mike will be over to spend the evening with you." And he was off. "And what does he mean by that?" wondered Mrs. O'Callaghan, looking after him.
Faith, he was a broth of a boy, the pride of all the McCarthy's," tears welled in his eyes as he continued, "just three years younger than mysilf, a light, ruddy, nately put togither lad as iver left the bogs; and talk about fightin'! the divil was niver in him but in a fight, and thin you'd think he was all divil.
And now it was Andy's turn to blush, while the widow smiled upon him. "I hear a many of them grammar folks talk," she said, "and it's mysilf that sees you talk jist loike 'em, barrin' the toimes when you don't. And them's not so many, nayther." At this little Jim scowled scornfully, but of him his mother took no notice as she looked around with pride upon her sons.
The baste called to try his hand on mysilf, but I flung my big boots at his head, an' saw no more of him." "That's a bad account of things," said Jeffson; "however, here I am back again with fresh supplies, so cheer up, man, and we'll weather the storm yet. I've brought some fellow-travellers, you see, and hope you will receive them hospitably."
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