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It was raaly a brillyant shot. A foot nearer th' ball an' he might have accomplished a feat in golufing histhry. But th' luck iv war was against him an' he sthruck himsilf upon th' ankle. Th' prisidint, resolvin' to give him no mercy, took his dhriver an' made a sterling carry to within thirty yards iv th' green. There was now nawthin' to it.
I seen him wanst, whin some scow unloaders sthruck in Lemont or some other distant place, put on his coat, lay down his shovel, an' go out, be hivins, alone.
Jawn, whin I read about thim poor people down in St. Looey, sthruck be th' wrath iv Hivin' without more warnin' thin a man gets in a Polock church fight an' swept to their graves be th' hundherds, me heart ached in me. "But they'se always some compinsation in th' likes iv this.
'Most exthraordinary rezemblance, he kept sayin'. An' thin he dug into his vest fer a pocket-book, an' out of that he took a locket. He looked at it thin at the little gurl who looked so sad. Roight off he turned the color of a sheet. 'Gintlemen, look! he sez. They all looked, an' shure wuz sthruck with somethin'. "'Gintlemen, sez Lee, 'me wife left me years ago ran off West wid a gambler.
But, annyhow, he give it out that th' Orangeys' procission must not be hurted. An' all th' newspapers asked th' good people to be quite, an' it was announced at high mass an' low mass that annywan that sthruck a blow 'd be excommunicated. "Well, ye know how it is whin modheration is counselled, Jawn. Modheration is another name f'r murdheration.
Lucy asked, and the voluble Jennie replied: "An' sure, mum, just afther ye left it sthruck to her head, and she wint out of herself intirely, and goes on awful about her father and mother, who died in Rome with the faver and is buried in some stonehape or the likes of it, and of Grey Jerry, who, she says, is on the ship and won't come to her.
Johnston, replied the invalid, 'I pity you from my heart for the opinion you hould about them. I suppose if you were sthruck dead on the spot wid a blast from the fairies, that you think a priest couldn't cure you by one word's spaking?
Orton, but we had entirely too many cases of the bends even when we were wurkin' at low pressure, in the rock, before we sthruck this sand. There's somethin' wrong, sir, or ye wouldn't be here yerself like this. The bends don't sthrike the ingineers, them as don't do the hard work, sir, and is careful, as ye know not often." "It's this way, Craig," resumed Orton.
If they'd been here fer two or three days, roight in front of the door, they'd have the black knocked off 'em wid ye boys' feet. This wan didn't light at all hardly, an' there's a little wool fuzz stickin' to it. Gee! that manes some wan sthruck it on his wool pants. Git the lantern, Ned, p'raps we'll fin' out somethin' more.
It were a sore pity they should be sthruck deaf to plaze ye," replied Biddy, her eyes flashing with excitement. "I would ye were in ould Ireland, or, for the matther o' that, in purgatory itself." "We would " said the priest. "No doubt o' it. But it's here I am, at yer service," interrupted Biddy. "Yes, and it's here ye've been bought for a wee pinch o' tae and a few poor, lean chickens.
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