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Updated: May 6, 2025
Haven't I kept th' shopkeepers iv th' town beyant fr'm starvin' be thradin' with thim an' stayin' in this cur-rsed counthry, whin, if I'd done what me wife wanted, I'd been r-runnin' around Europe, enj'yin' life? I'm a risidint landlord. I ain't like Kilduff, that laves his estate in th' hands iv an agint. I'm proud iv me station. I was bor-rn here, an' here I'll die; but I'll have me r-rights.
"The Indians says if they eats too much when they first gets un after starvin' 'tis like to make un sick. Sometimes they gets wonderful sick, too." "Then we'll be careful," agreed Charley, "though it's mighty hard not to pitch right in. I feel as though I could eat it all and then want more."
"You bought this this thing for me," she repeated. "And did you think I'd wear it." "I hoped you would. Oh, Thankful, if you only knew what I've been through. Why, I was next door to starvin' when I got in here tonight. If I hadn't eat somethin' I found in the buttry I would have starved, I guess. And I'm soaked, soppin' through and " "There, there. Hush! hush!
But och wirra wirra the roof's off of the house och the look of the black houle wid the rafters stickin' thro' it, and ne'er a breath of smoke, till me heart was sick watchin' to see might there be an odd one; and the door clap-clappin'. Sure be that I well knew the child was dead, and me father quit out of it, or maybe buried himself, and I after lavin' them dyin' and starvin'. So for 'fraid somebody'd be comin' out and tellin' me, off I run away into the bog, till I was treadin' here in the could wather.
Is that manners, when you're askin' for a job?" "You said you didn't have anything," muttered Sam. "Never mind what I said. I ast you what you were goin' to do." The badgered one began to bristle a little. "What's that to you?" he asked, scowling. "A whole lot!" cried Mahooley. "You fellows have no consideration. You're always comin' up here and starvin' on us. Do you think that's nice for me?
"'Why, then, says he, 'thunder and turf, says he, 'what puts a gridiron into your head? "'Bekase I'm starvin' with the hunger, says I. "'And sure, bad luck to you, says he, 'you couldn't eat a gridiron, says he, 'barrin' you were a pelican o' the wildherness, says he. "'Ate a gridiron, says I, 'och, in throth, I'm not such a gommoch all out as that, anyhow.
"I hope so, dear," she replied; "for God is good." "And will he get us blankets, mammy?". "Yes, darlin', I hope so." "Me id rady he'd get us sometin' to ait fust, mammy; I'm starvin' wid hungry;" and the poor child began to cry for food. The disconsolate mother was now assailed by the clamorous outcries of nature's first want, that of food.
I wuz put wise to it afore I come out by a railroad bloke. I had it straight these here cars would be picked up fer Buff'lo the nex' day after I done my trick. But they ain't took 'em up yet, an' I'm close ter starvin' here."
Nayther do I. We've never had very much to like, but we've seen others around us with plent an' faith we've been the happiest that we have." She only stopped to take breath before on she went again: "There have been times when we've been most starvin', but me father never lost his pluck or his spirits.
"I seen the Doctor many, many times," the woman went on, as W. Keyse reluctantly ungagged her, "watchin' Keyse and me in our poor 'ome-life together with the eyes of a starvin' dog lookin' at a bone. You ought to know 'ow starvin' 'urts...." The strenuous voice soared and quivered. "You learned that at Gueldersdorp! Yet you can see your 'usband dyin' of 'unger, an' never put out your 'and!
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