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Updated: June 16, 2025
I'd be thrue to ye ivery day o' me loife, an' ye knows it, but ye jist goes on makin' eyes at this wan an' flirtin' wid that wan an' spakin' swate to the t'other, an' kapin' all on the string till they can nayther ate nor slape nor be half the min they were till ye bewildered 'em. Ye're nothin' but a giddy, light-minded, shallow crather, a spoilin' min for your own fun.
Why, I say you may do as you like about giving up any o' your corn-land afore your lease is up, which it won't be for a year come next Michaelmas, but I'll not consent to take more dairy work into my hands, either for love or money; and there's nayther love nor money here, as I can see, on'y other folks's love o' theirselves, and the money as is to go into other folks's pockets.
Nayther do I. We've never had very much to like, but we've seen others around us with plent an' faith we've been the happiest that we have." She only stopped to take breath before on she went again: "There have been times when we've been most starvin', but me father never lost his pluck or his spirits.
There's them that wants permotion in such a hurry that they all but knocks over the wans in front of 'em. And that's bad, so 'tis. And no way at all, nayther. Jist kape yoursilf ready to step, and when the toime comes step aisy loike a gintleman, and then folks rej'ices with you, instead of feelin' of their bumps and wonderin' at your impudence.
"I'd niver have thought of a party doin' it, nayther, though I was wantin' it done bad. Your father was the man as loiked noice things, and he'd have got 'em, too, if sickness hadn't come to him." And now little Jim's reward had come. At last his mother had said he was like his father. He was as good as Pat and Mike and Andy, and his heart swelled.
He gives me lots o' things. "'Well! said the man, 'I wish he'd give me thing's. But you don't look so very rich nayther. "'Oh! but he gives me lots o' things; and he's up there, and he gives everybody lots o' things as likes to have 'em. "'Well, what's he gave you? "'Why, he's gave me some bread this mornin', and a tart last night he did.
"They can't fool me with their spyin' around! An' the gov'ment can't fool me nayther. I know who's the spies up here, an' I kin fool 'em all. Why, it's like back in Minnesota one time " Murphy, having listened attentively thus far, settled back against the wall, swung a rough-shod foot and began nursing his pipe and elbow again.
"'Twas there whin I pulled me sthring av empties out over ut lasht night. 'Tis gone now, else I'm thot near dead for sleep I can nayther see nor feel sthraight." Adair was calmly lighting a cigarette. "Your senses are still in commission," he said; "there is a good-sized piece of track missing. Who sniped it, do you suppose?" The engineer was shaking his fiery head.
"There, lads," he said, closing the door with a snap; "you didn't think to tell me to bring that, but I thought of it, and there we are. Now we can see what we're about," he continued, as he swung the lanthorn above his head; "and not much to see nayther. Only an 'ole. Yes, of course. There you are. Sheep's bones. Dessay many a one's tumbled down here.
"Hullo!" came quickly. "We're shut in by the water." "Who's `we'?" "The cutter's midshipman and I." "Wha-a-at! Then there arn't nayther on yer dead and drownded, my lad?" "No-o-o-o!" "Then I say hooray! hooray! But can't you swim out?" "No. We've tried." "Ho!" came back. "Wait a bit." "What for? Can't you get help for us, Tom?" "Ay, ay, my lad," came back. "But jest you wait."
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