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'Hi, there, you, says my gentleman, callin' to me as soon as we were alone, 'this accursed business 'as played the devil with me, an' I need a servant. 'Ow much do you want to stay wi' me? 'Twenty-five shillin' a week, says I, doin' myself proud while I 'ad the chance. 'I'll give ye thirty, says 'e; 'wot's ye name? 'Jacob Trimble, sir, says I. 'An' a most accursed name it is!
"`Miffy's lost! obsarved one o' my comrades as we got in among the bushes here an' prepared to fight it out. "`No great loss, remarked another. "`No fear o' Miffy, said Bounce, feelin' his nose tenderly, `he's a bad shillin', and bad shillin's always turn up, they say. "Bounce had barely finished when we heard another most awesome burst o' yellin' in the woods, followed by a deep roar.
Ten shillin's worth of stuff in that. An' ten for the makin'. An' that's twinty. I'll take ten, an' I couldn't afford to take a penny less. Will ye have it? Don't all spake at once. Ye won't. But I'll make ye. I'll take five shillin', four, three, two, one, I'll take sixpence. Here! Have it for thruppence. Ye won't? Sweet bad luck to the one of ye is worth thruppence.
"But," said Lund, with a quiet twinkle in his sharp gray eye, "I'd like to bet five shillin' that, when you are repaid, it won't be in Indian bread." "Pretty good!" laughed Kennedy, who had taken the day to finish up a large pile of "back numbers" of his favorite daily, "but I think hardly just to the Indians.
I'll lend money at usury that's what they do at all schools accordin' to the B.O.P. Penny a week on a shillin'. That'll startle Heffy's weak intellect. You can be Lucifer, Turkey." "What have I got to do?" McTurk also smiled. "Head conspiracies and cabals and boycotts. Go in for that 'stealthy intrigue' that Heffy is always talkin' about. Come on!"
Young Snac, with his bride upon his arm, waves a braggart handkerchief at the oldster, and out walks papa, plants himself straight in front of the company, and brings all to a halt. 'I should like to tell thee, says the old fellow before them all, rolling that bull-dog head of his, 'as I've made my will an' cut thee off with a shillin'!" "Dear me!" said Ezra, seriously; "dear me!
"Weel," was the answer, "it's a peety ye dinna ken Bob S . He's a rale fine gentleman, for he aye gies twa shillin' a roond for carryin' till'm; no like some that ca' themsels gentlemen, an' only gie a shillin'."
Brady, drawing in her breath with a sucking sound, which denoted that she had come to an interesting part of her narrative, "well, he kep' sendin' me money, ye know, a pound or maybe thirty shillin' at a time whenever he could, the poor boy, an' I was able to work the sewin'-machine a little, an' so we made out between us till I took this terrible bad turn.
"Yes; and cut his tail off with the spade," cried Mercer. "You spoiled him." "Well, I couldn't help that, sir; and I must go now, 'fore the gardener comes along." "Why, you said you wanted to see him." "So I did, sir; but I don't think I will. Everybody's so agen me now. Pay me the two shillin' you owe me." "I won't. I don't owe you a penny." "Then pay a shilling of it now, sir.
"Why then, Hugh O'Donnell, ar'n't you a dirty, black bodagh, to go to open upon the poor boy for no reason in life? What did he do that you should abuse him, you nager you? and it's well known that you're a nager, and that your heart's in the shillin'. Oh! it's long before you'd go to fair or market and bring home the best gown, or shawl, or mantle in it to the only sister you have, as he does.
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