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"Well, Daly, we'd better be steppin' home wid ourselves as wise as we come, as the man said when he'd axed his road of the ould black horse in the dark lane. There's no good goin' further, for the whole gang of them's scattered over the counthry agin now like a seedin' thistle in a high win'." "Ay bedad," said Constable Daly, "and be the same token, this win' ud skin a tanned elephant.
Then up comes Vee, lookin' as fresh and nifty as if she was just steppin' out on the Avenue; and before I can duck behind anything she's spotted me. "Why, Torchy," says she, "you don't mean to say you're feeling badly already! Or is it because you're leaving New York?" Then I saw my alibi. I sighs and gazes mushy hack towards the land.
So I pivots round and springs a sympathetic grin. "Did you pull it?" says I. He shrugs his shoulders kind of weary. "Oh, yes," says he. "I er I pulled it." "Well?" says I, steppin' over and leanin' confidential on the roll-top. "Torchy," says he, "please understand that I am in no way censuring you. You you meant well." "Ah, say, Mr. Robert!" says I. "Not so rough.
I can bare remimber tellin' him that his mouth opened endways like the mouth av a skate, which was thrue afther Learoyd had handled ut; an' I clear remimber his takin' no manner nor matter av offence, but givin' me a big dhrink of beer. Twas the beer did the thrick, for I crawled back into the palanquin, steppin' on me right ear wid me left foot, an' thin slept like the dead.
Hands on knees, he bent to study the face of the new-born, that countenance so ambiguous to our eyes, scarce stamped yet with the common seal of humanity. "She's a mighty pretty little gal," he repeated Mavity Bence's words. "She's got the Passmore favour, as well as the Consadine. Reckon I better be steppin' over to Vander's and see can I borry their cow.
Let's be steppin'!" Fortunately, there were plenty of fresh horses at "Roderick's" that night. A drove of them were corralled behind the inn, en route from a distant ranch to Denver, and thence eastward to market. All of them were well broken, to the saddle at least, and the best were promptly led out for Mr. Ford's selection, leaving his own beasts to rest for the next day's travel.
"Cut it short, Doc," cried the marshal goodnaturedly. "I ain't got a dictionary handy. Nerves bad, eh? Well, I don't wonder about that. The old man's had enough trouble lately to make anybody nervous. I wouldn't like to go through it myself. No, sir! What with that Dan Barry I ain't steppin' on any corns, Kate, am I?" She smiled vaguely, but the marshal accepted the smile as a strong dissent.
I blamed myself that I hadn't thought of it earlier, and so, steppin' forward, I called out to them to ease up we wouldn't struggle on for Cattewater, but drop hook in Jennycliff Bay, somewhere inside of the Merchant Shipping anchorage. As things were, this would save a good hour more likely two hours. 'And, said I, 'you can take the boat, all three, and leave her at Barbican steps.
"Good-evenin' to you kindly, sir," responded old Felix from his fireside corner; "and wudn't you be steppin' widin?" "I'm on'y axin' me way to the place below there Ballybrosna beyond Duffclane," said the old man; "it's the road I must be steppin', for I'm more than a thrifle late." But he came slowly forward into the room as if lured by the fire, at which he looked hungrily.
"So it was pleasant weather, and they all come and brung the babies, the old grasshopper skippin' along as nimble and steppin' on the shawl that was wrapped round his young one.
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