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They start up a rousin' fire in the open fireplace by pressin' a button, and if they git kinder warm, electric fans cool the air agin, though there hain't much chance of gittin' too warm, for electric thermostats regulate the atmosphere. But in the summer the fans come handy.
"Your time!" responded Shane Fadh, with contempt; "ay, and your father's afore you: my father doesn't remimber more nor seeing his funeral, and a merry one it was; for my grandfather, and some of them that had a respect for the family and his forbarers, if they hadn't it for himself, made up as much money among them as berried him dacently any how, ay, and gave him a rousin' wake into the bargain, with lashins of whiskey, stout beer, and ale; for in them times God be with them every farmer brewed his own ale and beer; more betoken, that one pint of it was worth a keg of this wash of yours, Ned."
"Rouser, you divil," said the Dandy, calling after them, "will you an' blessed Corney there, offer up a Patthernavy for my conversion, for I'm sure that both your prayers will go far?" Rousin Redhead and Corney responded to this with a loud laugh, and a banter.
The two latter were Rousin Redhead and his son, Corney. "So, boys," said the Rouser, "what do you think of our business to-night? Didn't I get well out of his clutches?" "Be me troth, Rouser, darlin'," replied the Dandy, "you niver wor completely in them till this minnit." "Dhar ma lham charth," said Corney, "I say he's a black-hearted villin."
He said it was deevilish fine stuff, an' so he took ane drappikie, an' anither drappikie, and yet anither drappikie," Sandy's accent got more and more pronounced as he went on "an' after a bit, his heed dropt doun, an' he took a wee snoozle of a minute or twa, then he woke up in a' his strength an' just grappit the flask in his twa hands an' took the hale o't off at a grand, rousin' gulp!
M'Cormick, having heard Rousin Redhead and his son utter such sentiments, did not feel at all justified in admitting them to any confidence with himself or Duffy. He accordingly replied with more of adroitness than of candor to the savage sentiments they expressed. "Faith, you're right, Rouser; he'd never have spunk, sure enough, to carry off the Bodagh's daughter.
"We've got to have a rousin' big Christmas fer little Skeezucks, anyhow," suggested Bone. "What sort of a celebration is there that we 'ain't never had in Borealis?" "Church," said Keno, promptly. This caused a silence for a moment. "Guess that's so, but who wants church?" inquired the teamster. "We might git up somethin' worse," said a voice in the crowd. "How?" demanded another.
A large group of men swiftly gathered to bid good-bye to the children, the shy little mother, and the fine young preacher. "I'm sorry to go," he told them, honestly. "I like your little camp." "It's goin' to be a rousin' town pretty soon, by jinks!" said Keno, pulling at his sleeves. "I'm showin' up a great big ledge, on Jim's Baberlonian claim."
"Red whiskers! why, you said a moment ago that they were black." "Black! hut tut, no, Misther Purcel, I couldn't say that; devil such a pair of red thumpers ever I seen, barin' upon Rousin' Redhead that was sent across for for buildin' churches ha! ha! ha!" "Why, I'd take my oath you said black," rejoined the proctor "that is, if I have ears to my head."
During his absence the following short consultation took place among those whom he left behind him, for the purpose of taking a personal part in the enterprise: "It was too thrue what Rousin Redhead said to-night," observed one of them, "he always takes care to throw the post of danger on some one else.
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