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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Come, O'Rook," cried one of the Rainbow men, "let's have `The poor little pig wi' the purple nose." O'Rook began at once, and sang with such fervour and pathos, that his auditors became quite uproarious in their admiration.
After walking beside his tall companion and eyeing his thin figure and sad countenance in silence for some time, he said "You're a cadaverous sort o' man, Mr Luke." "Think so?" said Mr Luke, gently. "Of course; I can't help thinkin' so, because I see it," returned O'Rook. "Was it a fall, now, w'en you was a babby, that did it, or measles?"
"It's more than I can tell," answered O'Rook; "looks like a boat, don't it?" "Very," said Mr Luke, "and there is something lying beside it like a man. Come, let's go see." The two explorers went rapidly down the gentle slope that led to the beach, and soon found that the object in question was indeed a boat, old, rotten, and blistered with the sun.
"Neither, that I am aware of," replied Mr Luke, with a good-natured smile; "my father before me was cadaverous." "Ah!" said O'Rook, with a look of sympathy, as he touched the region of his heart with his left thumb, "p'r'aps it was somethin' o' this sort, eh? I've bin through that myself in the ould country, where as purty a well, well, it's all over now, but I've a fellow-feelin' for "
"I haven't got as much dust as would gild the end of a bumbee's nose. Hope some of the others have been more successful. None of them have come in yet except O'Rook, who is as unlucky as myself. He's off to the store for something for supper." Watty sat down before the fire which burned in front of the tent, and sadly toasted his toes.
"Shure it's a mile wide if it's a futt," said one of the men as they stood in a group on the reef, dripping and gazing at the isle. "No, Simon O'Rook," said Bob Corkey, in that flat contradictions way to which some men are prone; "no, it's only half a mile if it's an inch." "You're wrong, both of you," said Baldwin Burr, "it ain't more than quarter of a mile. Quite an easy swim for any of us."
He was also glad to observe that all his tired companions were asleep, with the exception of O'Rook. That worthy was busy clearing up his pots and pans for the night. "It's late you are to-night," remarked O'Rook with a yawn. "Yes, I've been to the store," said Jack; "hand me that candle; thanks." Turning his back on his comrade, he opened the bag which he had won, and looked in.
The effect was even more powerful than he had hoped for. "A shark! a sha-a-a-rk!" howled O'Rook, and dived under the broken main-yard, which he was piloting ashore. Coming up on the other side, he tried to clamber on it, but it rolled round and dropped him. He went down with a gurgling cry.
There's no more news as I knows of in the parish, except that your old flame Mary got married to Teddy O'Rook, an' they've been fightin' tooth an' nail ever since, as I towld ye they would long ago. No man could live wid that woman. But the schoolmaster, good man, has let me off the cow.
"No, it's not that either," said the widow. "Ah, then, it can't be because I'm poor," persisted O'Rook, "for with this good business you don't want money, an' I'm great at cookin', besides havin' the willin' hands that can turn to a'most anything. If ye'd seen me diggin' for goold, bad luck to it, ye'd belaive what I tell ye.
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