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Compose yoursilf now. Good-night, an' swate drames to yez! I'm the watchman; I'll be out an' in; it's nothing here that'll hurt ye, sure; good-night!" and the man went out, and locked the door after him. It was warm in the room, and very comfortable, and it was not long after the boy laid down on the improvised bed before he was sound asleep.
"Och! because it's the only port we're callin' at, sor. Looks like a fine trip north," he went on. "The weather's warm and there's just enough breeze to make it lively. Nothin' like the sea, sor, for keepin' the stomach swate and the mind up to the knocker." I yawned, for I was dog-weary.
"Don't talk to me of your liquors and other dhrinks," murmured Biddy in her sleep. "It's wather that is a blessed thing; and I wish I lived, the night and the day, by the swate pump that's in our own yard, I do." "The woman has been talking in her sleep, in this fashion, most of the watch," observed Jack, coolly, and perhaps a little contemptuously. "But, Mr.
'Upon a second thought, I am compelled to believe it would, replied Henry. 'But to settle the matter, by Lord Armstrong's leave, I will take his servant Patrick with me. 'Do you hear that, Patrick, asked the earl? 'Indade, sir, and I do, replied Mr. Patrick O'Leary, with the true Hibernian accent. 'And its to the end of the world that I would follow swate master Henry, intirely.
"Now then, ladies, off the step! Any room for a lil calf' in the straw with you, missy? Freckened? Tut! Only a lil calf, as clane as clane and breath as swate as your own, miss. There you are it'll be lying quiet enough till we get to Douglas. All ready? Ready we are then. Collar work now, gentlemen. Aise the horse, sir. Thank you! Thank you! Not you, your Honour sit where you are, Dempster."
"Well," said Martin, in an undertone, "you did it that time, Barney. I verily thought the old fellow was hanged. He became quite livid in the face." "Och! bad luck to the lasso, say I. May I niver more see the swate groves o' Killarney if iver I meddle with wan again." "Hi-i; you is fuss rate," said Sambo, as he and his comrades returned and busied themselves in cutting up the dead alligators.
Do ye know that while I was surveying your swate face I saw something behind ye?" "No. What was it?" demanded Fred, with a start and shudder, looking back in the darkness.
Amidst all his apparent gayety of heart and national drollery and wit, the poor Irish emigrant has sad thoughts of the "ould mother of him," sitting lonely in her solitary cabin by the bog-side; recollections of a father's blessing and a sister's farewell are haunting him; a grave mound in a distant churchyard far beyond the "wide wathers" has an eternal greenness in his memory; for there, perhaps, lies a "darlint child" or a "swate crather" who once loved him.
Oh, but it's himself that shupported me over the faldes, and whin the chills and faver came on me and I shivered wid the cold, it was himself, God bless him, as sthripped the coat off his back, and giv it me, sayin', 'Take it, Dinnis, it's shtarved with the cowld say air ye'll be entoirely. Ah, but look at him will ye, miss! Look at his swate, modist face a blushin' like your own, miss.
Arrah, now, and didn't she have the swate teeth, six of the same that were so broad that they filled her mouth, and it was none of yer gimblet holes that was her mouth, but a beautiful one, that, when she smiled went round to her ears, did the same. And her shoes! but you orter seen them. 'Why so? 'What was the matter with her shoes? 'Nothing was the same.
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