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O'Flynn was screaming with excitement as he saw that the bundle Nicholas was carrying had a head and two round eyes. "The saints in glory be among us! What's that? Man alive, what is it, be the Siven?" "That," answered Mac with a proprietary air, "is a little Esquimaux boy, and I'm bringing him in to doctor his cold." "Glory be! An Esquimer! And wid a cowld!
Irish people can't kape so tidy, now, can they, with siven or eight, as Yankees can with one " But it certainly was a grand house, she didn't wonder he came back to look at it. Wasn't it fairly like a palace, now, compared with anything her kin back in Ireland had, and such a fine big place for the children to play an' all.
"'Twas one avenin' about siven or eight o'clock. Me an' me family were up stairs, clanin' out an office that has just been rinted. Kittie, me gurrel, wint down stairs for some extra dustin' rags. Whin she came back, she said she saw a man a-walkin' through the hallway outside. She said that as soon as he saw her, he didn't wait for the illevator, but went down the stairs in a big hurry."
Sure it's often I've druv ye and Mr. Edward too. I used to wurruk for Mr. Ross of Mullinger. I was Denny the postboy Denis Driscoll, yer honor; sure ye must know me?" "Oh yes, to be sure I remember," said Gerald, as recollection slowly dawned upon him. "But who'd have thought of finding you in a place like this? I didn't even know you'd left Ross's stables." "Six or siven months ago, yer honor."
This gen'l'man's been at it twelve years tried more 'n one camp, but now well, he's so well fixed he don't care a cuss about the Klondyke." Schiff lit up and pulled hard at the cutty. O'Flynn had taken Kaviak to the fire, and was showing him how to roast half a petaty in wood ashes; but he was listening to the story and putting in "Be the Siven!" at appropriate moments.
There was a tone and look of such intense sincerity about the poor fellow, as he slowly drew a second bag of gold from his pocket and placed it beside the first, that Gashford could not help being convinced. "Two hundred and five hundred," he said, meditatively. "That makes siven hundred, sor," said Flinders, suggestively. The bully did not reply for a few seconds.
"Marjie, maybe if that hole's too deep for Lettie to reach clear in, there might be somethin' she's missed. I dunno'. But niver moind. I took me vacation, went sailin' out with Dever fur a rale splurge to Kansas City. Across the Neosho Dever turns the stage aside, U. S. mail and all, and lands me siven miles up the river and ferries me on this side again.
"Ivver since Siven Bells, sure, in the forenoon watch, sor." "And what's the time now?" "Close on Four Bells in the first dog watch, sor." "Good gracious me!"
"Fourteen bouquets and wan basket," says the little woman, "and Mamie Odenheimer, she got seventeen bouquets and two baskets and a sign. Well," she looked anxious, but smiled, "I know of siven bouquets Tommy will git for sure. And that's not countin' what Harry Lossing will do for him. Hiven bless the good heart of him!"
'Oh! by my sowkins, says the priest, 'it'll be the quarest ghost in the siven parishes, says he, 'if it has the courage to come back, says he, 'afther what I'll do this mornin', plase God, says he; 'so we'll say twelve pounds; an' God knows it's chape enough, says he, 'considherin' all the sarcumstances, says he.
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