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He lost his balance, an' fell fr'm th' scaffoldin' he was wurrukin' on; an' th' last wurruds he said was, 'Did I get him or didn't I? Mrs. O'Grady said it was th' will iv Gawd; an' he was burrid at Calvary with a funeral iv eighty hacks, an' a great manny people in their own buggies. Dorsey, th' conthractor, was there with his wife. He thought th' wurruld an' all iv O'Grady.
'I love you so, and you've been so good to me all my life, but don't don't never say that to me again. That can never be not so long as we live. And she dropped down on the ground and cried till she couldn't git her breath. Then she got up and kissed my hands and went home, leavin' me there alone feelin' like I'd fell off a scaffoldin' and struck the sidewalk."
"I should say he was a fool, grannie, not only for losin' of his money and his labor, but for weakenin' of his scaffoldin', summat like the old throne-maker i' that chapter, I should say." "What's the object of a scaffold, Mr. Jarvis?" "To get at something else by means of, say build a house."
"Mab'be, measter, you moight try un, though," pleaded the poor fellow, scratching his head again; and then adding, as if a brilliant thought all at once occurred to him from the operation, "Oi be used to scaffoldin' and can cloimb loike sailor cheaps."
"A stage do yez main an omnibus?" "No, I don't mean no omnibus," replied the big fellow, with a humorous twinkle in his eye. "A scaffoldin', thin, I persume ye main," continued Myles. "Oh, darn it, no! I mean a stage a stage for acting on." "Oh, I see now. I comprehind. A stage for show actors," replied O'Hara, as if a sudden light had dawned upon his not particularly brilliant imagination.
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