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"I think I see something, sir," cried West, shading his eyes with his hand, and gazing earnestly in the direction indicated by Meetuck. "So do I, be the mortial!" said O'Riley in a hoarse whisper. "I see the mountains and the sky, I do, as plain as the nose on me face!" "Hush! stop your nonsense, man," said Fred. "I see a deer, I'm certain of it."
"I knowed ye would come, captain; bless you, sir," said Amos Parr, in an unsteady voice. "Come! Av coorse ye knowed it," cried O'Riley energetically. "Och, but don't be long wid the mate, darlints, me stummik's shut up intirely." "There won't be room for us all here, I'm afraid," remarked Bolton. This was true.
Look, now, how we're enjoyin' the sun an' the heat just as if it wos so much gold!" "Goold!" echoed O'Riley in a tone of contempt; "faix, I niver thought so little o' goold before, let me tell ye. Goold can buy many a thing, it can, but it can't buy sunshine. Hallo! what's this!" O'Riley accompanied the question with a sudden snatch of his hand. "Look here, Buzzby!
"You're just cut out for it." "Blue eyes," said one. "Fair hair," cried another. "And plump," said a third. "Wid cheeks like the hide of a walrus," cried O'Riley; "but, sure, it won't show wid a veil on." "Come, now, you won't refuse." But Buzzby did refuse; not, however, so determinedly but that he was induced at last to allow his name to be entered in Fred's note-book as a supernumerary.
They deserted their comfortable abode, with one consent, the first time they were sent to it, preferring to spend the night by the side of the ship upon the bare snow. Coaxing them was of no use. O'Riley tried it in vain.
"I find it difficult to beat up recruits," answered Fred, laughing; "Peter Grim has flatly refused to act, and O'Riley says he could no more learn a part off by heart than " "His grandmother's pig could," interrupted David Mizzle, who, having concluded supper, now felt himself free to indulge in conversation. "Och! ye spalpeen," whispered the Irishman.
Weed. Mr. O'Riley furnished shingle nails to, the new Court House at three thousand dollars a keg, and eighteen gross of 60-cent thermometers at fifteen hundred dollars a dozen; the controller and the board of audit passed the bills, and a mayor, who was simply ignorant but not criminal, signed them. When they were paid, Mr.
"An' don't ye think it's worth makin' inquiries about me?" cried O'Riley, who had been tossed into a crevice in the hummock, where he lay jammed and utterly unable to move. Fred and the Esquimau laughed heartily while O'Riley extricated himself from his awkward position.
"Captain Guy," said O'Riley, addressing his commander with a solemn face, "haven't ye more nor wance towld me o' the queer thing in the deserts they calls the mirage?" "I have," answered the captain, with a puzzled look. "An' didn't ye say there was somethin' like it in the Polar Seas, that made ye see flags, an' ships, an' things o' that sort when there was no sich things there at all?"
"The biscuit lies beside you, don't give in so soon, man." "Thank you, sir, I have about done." "Meetuck, ye haythen, try a bit o' the roast; do now, av it was only to plaaze me." Meetuck shook his head quietly, and, cutting a fifteenth lump off the mass of raw walrus that lay beside him, proceeded leisurely to devour it. "The dogs is nothin' to him," muttered O'Riley.
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