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Updated: May 6, 2025
"What do you say if we go over and tell the missis we're starvin' to death?" "Send Pete over," suggested a cowboy. Bailey liked a joke. As he had said, things were dull, just then. "Lope over and tell my missis we're settin' out here starvin' to death," he suggested to Pete. Pete strode to the house and entered, hat in hand.
An' why shudden't he be with thim two names? They'se pothry in both iv thim. Fitz-Hugh Lee! Did ye iver see a pitcher iv him? A fat ma-an, with a head like a football an' a neck big enough to pump blood into his brain an' keep it fr'm starvin'. White-haired an' r-red-faced. Th' kind iv ma-an that can get mad in ivry vein in his body.
"An' it black noight, an' men and women wild in the drink; an' Pat Harrigan insoide bloind an' mad in liquor, an' it's turned me an' the children out he has to shlape in the snow an' not the furst toime either. An' it's starvin' we are starvin' an' no other," and she dropped her wretched head on her knees and began to moan again, and the children joined her.
"People who stick at home, and are patient, and put up with things, they're doomed. But look at the fellas that come out o' starvin' attics and stinkin' pigsties to America. They live like lords, and they look at life like men." Mac was saying a great deal about the Ice Age and the first and second periods of glaciation, but nobody could hear what. "Prince Nicholas? Well, I should smile.
"I know you and your friend there must jest be starvin'," she said, gathering herself up. "I never knowed when you wasn't, if you'd bin an hour from the table." "Shorty's worse'n me," said Si with a grin. "But I haven't interduced him yit. Mother, girls, this is Shorty, my pardner, and the best pardner a feller ever had." "Glad to know you, Mr. Shorty," said they, shaking his hand.
He left us, an' no wan knows where he iss now. Starvin', maybe, like the rest of us." "I hope not," said Elspie, while her sire continued his breakfast with manifest satisfaction. "He went off to search for buffalo with Perrin and several others. They said they would return to us if they found anything. But, as they have not come back, we suppose they must have been unsuccessful.
Holderness blew out a puff of smoke and smiled. Snap glowered upon Mescal and then upon his amiable companions. One of them, a ruddy-faced fellow, walked toward Mescal. "Cool down, Snap, cool down," he said. "We're not goin' to stand for a girl starvin'. She ain't eat a bite yet. Here, Miss, let me untie your hands there. . . . Say! Naab, d n you, her wrists are black an' blue!" "Look out!
And it was a grand way he threated me mother when she was starvin'." "He wants to do somethin' for ye now, Peg." "I'll not go to him." "Now listen, dear; it's little I'll have to lave ye when I'm gone," pleaded O'Connell. "I'll not listen to any talk at all about yer goin'. Yer a great strong healthy man that's what ye are. What are ye talkin' about? What's got into yer head about goin'?"
If you kill the mother all the little ones die, for they're too small to take care of themselves. Do you think that's right?" "I never thought of un before," said David. "'Tis wicked to kill un! I'll never kill a hen pa'tridge in summer again! Not me!" "We'll have to be tellin' everybody in the Bay about that!" declared Andy. "Nobody has ever thought about the poor little uns starvin' and dyin'!"
George McDermid was out, like many others, huntin' about for the starvin' people, an' he came across the wives of Blanc and Pierre poor things! they're widows now, for Blanc and Pierre are both dead. Well, the women had well-nigh given in. I had dropped down, they were so tired, and were crawlin' on their hands and knees when McDermid found them.
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