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Dey makes me tired," he said. "Mos' e'ry day some farmer comes in an' tries teh run deh shop. See? But dey gits t'rowed right out! I jolt dem right out in deh street before dey knows where dey is! See?" "Sure," said Jimmie. "Dere was a mug come in deh place deh odder day wid an idear he wus goin' teh own deh place! Hully gee, he wus goin' teh own deh place!
"Did you hear what she said to the man?" I inquired, and my mouth was dry. "On'y a bit of it. She says, says she: 'Who is that man wit' a French beard the young man in his shirt-sleeves? The felly she t'rowed this into was one o' the kid-gloves, and he didn't know. So he went to Shelton, who was showin' the crowd around on the job.
"Well, deh blokie he says: 'T'hell wid it! 'Deh hell, I says. Like dat! 'Deh hell, I says. See? 'Don' make no trouble, I says. Like dat. 'Don' make no trouble. See? Dat's what he said. See?" "Sure," repeated Jimmie. Pete continued. "Say, I jes' jumped deh bar an' deh way I plunked dat blokie was great. See? Dat's right! In deh jaw! See? Hully gee, he t'rowed a spittoon true deh front windee.
If it's help ye nade, I guess we might be able to scrape up a shooter apiece. We lug 'em along for ballast, ye understand, in the absence o' fire-water. If it's a foighter ye're talking like, ivery devil of a mother's son of us can make a bang like a gun, with a bullet t'rowed in though for meself I prefer a shillalah. I'm going to be in this foight if I have to use a lead pencil. Ain't I Oirish?"
You made your spiel, and you t'rowed me out, and I let it go at dat. And, say, friend, dis chasin' cows is outer sight. Dis is de whitest bunch of sports I ever travelled with. You'll let me stay, won't yer, old man?" Raidler looked wonderingly toward Ross Hargis. "That cussed little runt," remarked Ross tenderly, "is the Jo-dartin'est hustler and the hardest hitter in anybody's cow camp."
It was a living wall, and through little chinks in its quivering face he could see specks of blue close up where raced Lauzanne. "Poor gurl!" he gasped, "they've got her in a pocket. Damn them b'ys. Why did she hug the rail she's fair t'rowed away the last chance."
The mate soon had the negro in the council. "I say, Josh," asked Spike, "do you happen to remember such a hand aboard here as one Jack Tier?" "Lor' bless you, yes sir 'members he as well as I do the pea soup that was burnt, and which you t'rowed all over him, to scald him for punishment."
"An' there'll be more wracks, Cormy, an' we'll take our pickin's from every one," said the skipper. "Times bes changed, lad. The day was when we took what the sea t'rowed up for us; but now we takes what we wants an' leaves what we don't want to the sea." At that moment the voice of old Mother Nolan sounded fretfully from the next room. "Denny! Cormy!" she called.
Wrack ye kin break abroad; cargoes ye kin lift an' devour; gold an' jewels ye kin hide away; but when live women be t'rowed up to ye by the sea ye kin do naught but let 'em go. The divil bes in the women, lad the women from up-along. An' the law would be on yer heels aye, an' on to yer neck afore ye knowed how the wind was blowin'! An' what would his riverence be sayin' to ye?"
"Denny, ye poor fool," returned Mother Nolan, "ye bes simple as a squid t'rowed up on the land-wash. What do ye know o' fairies an' the like? Wasn't I born on a Easter Sunday, wid the power to see the good people, an' the little people, an' all the tricksy tribes? The body o' a fairy-child bes human, lad. 'Tis but the heart o' her bes unhuman an' the beauty o' her an' there bain't no soul in her.
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