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Updated: May 23, 2025
"You only punished lepers," I went on, "in the middle ages, because you believed that leprosy was catching: this malady is not even catching." "Faith, Oi'd punish it with extermination," cried the Irishman. Exasperated by the fact that his idiot prejudice was hurting my friend, I said at length with a smile: "You are very bitter: I'm not; you see, I have no sexual jealousy to inflame me."
"He do be a moighty foine bye, Jack Keith," she said, apparently addressing the side wall. "Oi wish Oi'd a knowed him whin Oi was a gyurl; shure, it's not Murphy me noime'd be now, Oi'm t'inkin'." Left alone, the girl bowed her head on her hands, a hot tear stealing down through her fingers. As she glanced up again, something that glittered on the floor beside the bed caught her eyes.
The divil a boat will I let ye have; if ye want a boat, go ashore and build one for yoursilf. And go to the divil and get your awning, and your canvas, and your lashings, and your cook, too, begorra! for sorra a one of anny of thim will ye get from me! I was a fool to promise ye annything, but I wanted your help, and I thought Oi'd get it by humourin' ye.
This was but a ceremonious prologue, intended to deepen the impression of the coming revelation. "Useter 'ev a 'oss Oi'd ketch hanyweares. 'Wo, Bob! Ahterwahs, by gully! Oi got pepper-follerin' ahteh me 'osses hevery mo'nin' afoot. 'Ed ter wark 'em deaoun afoot, loike." "But why did n't you hobble them?" His face reddened slightly. "Me 'obble my 'osses!
"Oi'd take him aboard, bedad," he shouted, leaning back as though he had spoken wisdom, and then he nodded to the Captain, and the Captain nodded to him. The understanding seemed complete. "We sail at midnight, tide serving," said the Captain, as he picked up the miniature and the other things; "you can come aboard when you like here, boy, lock these in the chest."
The name he mentioned at once made Mick cock his ear. "Grand Canary," repeated my chum after the signalman, with a puzzled look on his face. "Ain't thet the place, Tom, whare thim yaller burds yer sisther Jenny has, sure, at home comes from? She s'id they wor canaries, Oi'd take me davy!" "Of course, they are, Mick," said I, in reply to this.
"It's mighty quick yez got at it. It's caretaker Oi am, an' a divil of a care it is. Shure, who wants to work seven days a week, if he can do wid six?" "You should have declined to agree to that condition?" "Then Oi'd have been turned out. Begobs, it's such poor beer that it's little enough Oi sell even in seven days." "Why don't you get your beer elsewhere then?"
"If I had anything to do with it at all I'd tread on Flannigan's coat, and you can tell him so, for disgracing the Corps.... Take off your jacket and help with my boots, Shocky. I'm for Guard." "Oi'd clane the boots of no man that ud demane himself to ax it," was the haughty reply of the disappointed warrior. "Not for less than a quart at laste," he amended.
Murphy reëntered, and forced her to drink the concoction prepared, the girl accepting with smiling protest. The landlady, empty glass in hand, swept her eyes about the room. "Bedad, but the place looks betther than iver Oi'd belaved, wid the gyurl Oi've got tindin' to it. She's that lazy she goes ter slape swapin' the flure.
He made me so tarnal disgusted with myself that I wanted to find a hole and crawl into it. The trouble was that I didn't know where I could find a hole small enough." "It's a livel head Frankie has, Ephie." "You bet your boots!" "Whin he got through talkin' Oi was ashamed to think Oi'd ever even contimplated makin' a bet." "And I was the blamed idiot that done the betting, Barney!
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