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"Here's the lovely man lying dead in his bunk." 'There were no sports at Orewell that New Year. Some one said that the crowd from Nelson Creek might object to the sports being postponed on old Duncan's account, but the Flour said he'd see to that. 'One or two did object, but the Flour reasoned with them and there were no sports.
England has to come to Ireland for its Jinnerals! Luk at Jinneral Roberts in the marshes of Candyhar!" 'They always had sports at Orewell Creek on New Year's Day except once and old Duncan was always there, never missed it till the day he died. He was a digger, a humorous and good-hearted "hard-case". They all knew "old Duncan". 'But one New Year's Eve he didn't turn up, and was missed at once.
For instance, he'd come on the ground when the Orewell sports were in full swing and walk round, soliloquising just loud enough for you to hear; and just when a big event was coming off he'd pass within earshot of some committee men who had been bursting themselves for weeks to work the thing up and make it a success saying to himself "Where's the Orewell sports that I hear so much about?
But now this wicked woman gathered together an army, and with Prince Edward, and the King's brother the Earl of Kent, who were deluded by her enchantments, she came back and landed at Orewell, and thence marched with flying colours to Bristol, men gathering everywhere to her standard as she came. "We were in Bristol on that awful day.
I don't see them! Can any one direct me to the Orewell sports?" 'Or he'd pass a raffle, lottery, lucky-bag, or golden-barrel business of some sort, "No gamblin' for the Flour. I don't believe in their little shwindles. It ought to be shtopped. Leadin' young people ashtray." 'Or he'd pass an Englishman he didn't like, "Look at Jinneral Roberts! He's a man! He's an Irishman!
Edward, so soon as he received this information, resolved to go and meet their attack; and he gave orders to have his vessels and troops summoned from all parts of England to Orewell, his point of departure. His advisers, with the Archbishop of Canterbury at their head, strove, but in vain, to restrain him.
Having obtained a French force of two thousand men, and being joined by all the English exiles then in France, she landed, within a year, at Orewell, in Suffolk, where she was immediately joined by the Earls of Kent and Norfolk, the King's two brothers; by other powerful noblemen; and lastly, by the first English general who was despatched to check her: who went over to her with all his men.
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