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And he handed him the pair that he had made, with a face as grave as a judge. The fairy man looked at them, but he said nothing, though he did not put them on. "Have you looked at the things you got last night?" says he. "I'll not deceive you, sir," says the cobbler. "I came off as soon as I was up. Sorra peep I took at them." "Be sure to look when you get back," says the fairy man.
But if I did, ma'am, sure when they'd got the bits of furniture sold, the on'y notion they had was to be settin' off to make fortins in the States, and ne'er a word about Katty and th' ould man. Och they had me disthracted; outrageous they were; and that ould thief of the world, Tishy, allowin' me sorra a penny, so as I mightn't ha' been bound to stop wheriver they was.
"Father of heaven!" they exclaimed in a low, earnest voice; "but why, Barney?" they asked in a condensed whisper. "Why! Why is he called Harry na Suil Balor for? Can you tell me that?" "Why, bekaise his two eyes isn't one color." "And why aren't they one color? Can you tell me that?" "O, the sorra step farther I can go in that question."
"Oh!" observed the father, with a smile, "divil a one o' you girls, Ellen, ever thinks much of father or mother when you have made up your minds to run away wid your buchaleens sorra a taste." "Arra, Brian, will you have sinse," said his wife; "why wouldn't they think o' them?"
At which he retorted, "Have conduct, woman; sure I've nothin' agin it." They do be sayin' she's come over because she's plazed with seein' estated gintlemen lave iverything and go out and be shot by thim bloody Boers, bad scran to thim! Sure if I had the sons, sorra a wan but I'd lave go! Who's the iligant sojers in the silver stays, Thady? Is it the Life Guards you're callin' thim?"
"He woke up an' took his milk," said Patsy in an ecstatic whisper, "an' he knew me! 'Is that you, Patsy, ye ould divil? says he. Sorra a word o' lie in it! An' Shot had twisted himself in unbeknownst to me, an' when he heard the master spakin' he up an' licked his hand." "I've asked Reilly to come on duty now, Patsy. I shall be up to-night, so he has taken a short sleep."
But then there was a place to go into, and dry clothes to put on, and a warm male to look forward to, with perhaps a drop of the crater afterward; and that makes all the difference in the world. What we are going to do to-night, sorra of me knows." "You will have to lie down in the mud, Denis." "Is it lie down, your honor?
It's for killin' the whole of us he'll be. And it wasn't me set it afire. Sorra the match was I meddlin' wid, I could swear it. I wasn't out of it any time, gettin' a few ripe berries to pacify them childer, agin they would be wakin' and roarin', and when I come back, there it is all a smother of smoke.
'Sorra much, yer honor, sez I. 'It's very strange, you know, sez he, 'that they don't bite at all to-day. You haven't caught any, have you? 'Well, sorr, sez I, 'I did dhrop on a few little ones as I come down. 'Oh, did you, really? sez another one, puttin' a glass in his eye and standin' up excited like. 'Why, my good man, sez he, 'be good enough to 'old them up, you know.
The person addressed made no answer for a moment, continuing to stare at the western horizon with his eyes wrinkled and his face anxious. He turned presently; a tall, grizzled man, with the stooping shoulders and the slightly bowed legs that are the heritage of those who spend nine-tenths of their time in the saddle. "Sorra a one of me knows," he said.
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