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Once we get by here, I've a hunch the going may be better." "Yes," said Thad, whirling his shillalah around in a lively way, as a token of what he meant to do in case of an emergency. By the time they reached the spot where the trees joined branches across the dimly defined road both boys were in somewhat of a feverish state of apprehension.
"She told me I must never run; The Rebel boys were brothers; To stand forever by our flag, The Louisiana colors! And then she said, 'If you desert, You'll go to the Old Baily! Says I, 'My love, when I can't shoot, I'll use my old shillalah! "And many a bloody charge we made, Nor mind the battle's blaze; God gave to us a hero bold, Our bonny Harry Hays!
"With twenty years off and a shillalah in me hand I would have been proud to stand with you. By the Lord, I'm asking too much! I'll yield the twenty years and only ask for the stick!" And his cane went whirling around his head, now guarding, now striking, and now with elaborate flourishes, after the most approved Donny-brook fashion. "But, me friend Jarvis, what is this you have on your face?
Having arrived at this very logical, and important conclusion, our honest Hibernian flourished his shillalah above his head, but the next moment it was snatched from his grasp by Blackbeard, who cast it away to a considerable distance.
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