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Wilson's physical imperfections were an offence in the dalesman's eyes: "He's as widderful in his wizzent old skin as his own grandfather." Angus was not less severe on Wilson's sly smoothness of manner. "Yon sneaking old knave," he would say, "is as slape as an eel in the beck; he'd wammel himself into crookedest rabbit hole on the fell."
Murphy reëntered, and forced her to drink the concoction prepared, the girl accepting with smiling protest. The landlady, empty glass in hand, swept her eyes about the room. "Bedad, but the place looks betther than iver Oi'd belaved, wid the gyurl Oi've got tindin' to it. She's that lazy she goes ter slape swapin' the flure.
Time was lost and never was time more precious in convincing Slape that this was no old wife's tale. At last, however, he won his way and twenty musketeers; but the quarter-past the hour had chimed ere they left the Castle.
"Sometimes when I git into a sore puzzle," said Mickey, "and so many beautiful and irritating plans come up before me that I cannot find it in my heart which way to decide, I goes to slape and drames me way through it, right straight into the right way." "Did you ever find your path out of trouble?" inquired Fred.
And who told you to come here?" "Who towld me, is ut? Who but the payler outside in the street below! I explained to 'um, an' sez he: 'Ah, you go an' take a slape, sez he; 'you go an' take a good slape, an' they'll be all gone whin ye wake up. 'But they'll murdher me, sez I. 'Oh, no! sez he, smilin' behind av his ugly face.
"'Soun' slape th' night an' safe journey th' morra, says I. "'Get yer third out or I'm gone, says he. "I scratched m' head an' swithered, but divil a third cud I think ov. Jist as he was goin', 'Oh, says I, 'I want a pig fur this sty! "'Ye'll git him! says he, an' off he wint." Here was something, after all, that gave us more excitement than a Banshee story. We had a sty.
Where shall we slape? Jist by the corner here?" "No. I'll change that. Two just inside of one doorway and two inside the other. I'll stay at the angle myself." Three hours passed as quietly as the wool-clad footsteps of the Grecian Fate. Then, stealing through the profound darkness, came the faintest rustle imaginable.
'She's promised, he says, an' he'll kape on 'She's-promising' for all o' me, for it's not tell him I will! He can go to slape in his poor little boots, expectin' her to kape her promise!" The woman with the receiver at her ear uttered a low exclamation. She had not forgotten the Promise, but it had not impressed her as anything vital. She had given it merely to comfort Little Silly when he cried.
"Dhirt I am," sez I, "an' the dhryest that you iver kyarted. Dhrive on, me son, an glory be wid you." At that I wint to slape, an' took no heed till he pulled up on the embankmint av the line where the coolies were pilin' mud. There was a matther av two thousand coolies on that line you remimber that. Prisintly a bell rang, an' they throops off to a big pay-shed.
'Oh, I say, sergeant, can't we stay and look at the pretty scenery? said Roy Horan plaintively. 'No, ye can't, was the gruff retort. 'Orders are that all the men are to turn in and take what rest they can. Faith, it's mighty little slape any of ye will get, once you're ashore. Go down now and ate your suppers and rest. I'm thinking ye'll be taking tay with the Turks before you're a dale older.
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