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A Feast of Mule Meat. The Mountain Cave. A Punishment. Despair. The Crack of a Rifle. Liberty. The Smoke Signal. The Spy. The Two Eyes. A Horrible Situation. Relief at last. A Dissertation on Apaches. Their Manners and Customs. A Surprise. A Desperate Adventure. Arrival at Apache Pass. "Sooap." An Attack. The Herd in Danger. We rally. The Fight. Death and Burial. Patsey in Trouble. "Shnakes."
Some doay Oi'll tell yez about th' big shnakes we hiv in Oireland. Oi hivn't toime to-night." "Und I vill dell you apoud der big Injuns vot dere vos der Rhine on, in Shermany," said Hans. "Maype you haf heardt uf dose poem enditled 'Big Injun on der Rhine, ain'd id?" "Oh, well, that's all right!" said Ned, with a wave of his hand, as if he was not quite pleased.
Becoming, at last, thoroughly angry, I seized the boy by the collar, and gave him such a shaking that I finally succeeded in getting an answer to the question, as to what was the matter. "Mather!" roared Patsey. "Mather enuff, God knows! Shnakes is the mather!" making a desperate dive down into the leg of his pants. "I'm bited to death wid a shnake, so I am. Can't yez all sae I'm a did mon?"
"Shure, Miss," protested Norah, in deprecation of Kitty's flashing eye, "there's thim that's lived among shnakes and poysin riptiles and faverous disayses that's particklar av the beds and sheets they lie on. Hisht! Howly Mother! it's something else he's wanting now!"
Pathrick ye are, and he drove all the shnakes out av Oireland. Hereafther you're St. Buck, begobs!" "St. Buck is a heap good," laughed the Westerner, as he shook hands with his old friends, removed his broad-brimmed Stetson, and made a sweeping bow to the girls. "Mrs.
'shnakes," he said, 'shnakes, there's shnakes in my bed." and he pointed. I followed his gaze to his bed that was out in the open since it was a warm summer night; his batman had made it nice and comfy for him complete with a tent type mosquito net.
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