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Updated: April 30, 2025
Shure there's no sinse at all, at all, in workin' life out to kape life in. "Ah, no," said Misther Fahy. "That tobacky has no strinth in it. We get no satisfaction out iv it. We shmoked a pipe iv it to make frinds, but we'd not shmoke another. 'Tis like chopped hay or tay-leaves, it is. Will we walk back wid yer honner's glory? 'Tis only four miles, it is. No, we bur-rn no powdher here.
'I wud be in favor iv havin' th' rigimints get their feet round wanst a week, at laste, he says. 'Lave us, he says, 'reform th' reg'lations, he says, 'an' insthruct our sojers to keep their powdher dhry an' their whistles wet, he says." "Th' idee ought to take, Hinnissy, f'r th' other doctor la-ad has discovered that liquor is food.
Whin there's no redskins to kill they must be wastin' good powdher on a three." I leaped upon a stump and scanned the line of sentries between us and the woods; only their heads and shoulders appeared above the rank growth. I saw them looking from one to another questioningly, some shouting words I could not hear.
"Ay, but how can we help him, Frank? Oh, bedad, it 'ud be a murdherin' shame, all out, to let the crathur die by himself, widout company, so it would." "No one wul take him in, for fraid o' the sickness. Why, I'll tell you what we'll do: Let us shkame the remainder o' this day off o' the Major, an' build a shed for him on the road-side here, jist against the ditch. It's as dhry as powdher.
"The powder is behind the ball in that paper bag," explained Shorty. "You tear the paper with your teeth this way, and pour the powder into the muzzle." "Fhat," said Barney contemptuously, surveying the cartridge. "There isn't enough powdher there to throw a ball as far as Oi can a pebble. Fwhy, Oi used to put a whole handful o' powdher in the old blunderbuss.
Why, look at the coffin this skull belongs to, 'tid go into powdher between your fingers; 'tis nothin' but tindher. 'I believe you're right, Mr. Mattocks. 'Phiat! to be sure. 'Tis longer undher ground by thirty years, good, or more maybe.
"Back av th' head, no powdher marks!" He straightened up. "Docther, are ye thru? All right, thin! Guess we'll book up an' start in." Methodically they all produced note-books and entered the needful particulars. The lanky individual who had driven the coroner out brought forward a tarpaulin and spread it on the ground.
"It's ould Terence, sure enough," says Thady, "isn't it cute the fairy docthor found him out," says he. "I'm an the pint iv snuffication," says Terence, "let me out, I tell you, an' wait till I get at ye," says he, "for begorra, the divil a bone in your body but I'll powdher," says he.
An' so off they wint on their secret mission, with th' band playin' 'Th' Wearin' iv th' Green, an Tynan standin' on th' quarther deck, smilin' an' bowin' an' wavin' a bag iv jint powdher over his head. "No sooner had th' conspirators landed thin th' British gover'mint begun to grow suspicious iv thim.
"Listen at them spalpeens wastin' powdher," the corporal exclaimed once, wroth at this unsoldierly practice. "Must they have twenty thrys to hit a big black buffalo? Just lemme git 'em into the gyard house wunst agin time they git out they'll be fit to worship the outside o' the dure; it'll look so strange an' good to 'm."
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