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She said to herself, it is true, that she might as well be in one place as another, since she would not have Thady to go along with anymore the black-hearted, thievin' miscreant and if she had as much wit in her as an ould water-rat, she'd just creep away into some dry ditch, and be done with the whole of it.
Nothing of all this property was locked up: a latch on the door sufficed. 'I suppose, then, you have no rogues in the bush? said Robert. 'Where everybody's as well off as another, there ain't no thievin', was the pithy answer. 'A wolf now and then among our sheep, is all the robbers we has. After breakfast the bullocks were yoked afresh.
The caretaker was trying to console the self-accusing man. "Could I no'? Ye dinna ken me as weel as ye micht." The disgusted landlord tumbled into broad Scotch. "Gie me to do it ance mair, an' I'd chairge Auld Jock wi' thievin' ma siller, wi' a wink o' the ee at the police to mak' them ken I was leein'; an' syne they'd hae hustled 'im aff, willy-nilly, to a snug bed."
M'Gurk, jubilantly, "it's Ody Rafferty himself. To your sowls! Now you've a great good chance, ma'am, to be gettin' it back. He's the boy 'ill leg it over all before him" for in those days Ody was lithe and limber "and it's hard-set the thievin' Turk 'ill be to get the better of him at a racin' match Hi Och."
"Wot's England a-comin' to? that's wot I wants to know," he was saying; "wot's England a-comin' to when thievin' robbers can come a-walkin' in on you a-stealin' a pint o' your best ale out o' your very own tankard under your very own nose wot's it a-comin' to?" "Ah!" nodded the others solemnly, "that's it, Joel wot?"
"Somebody's up to a little thievin', most likely, and it looks like I had 'em red-handed. I've been layin' for this!" Pierce divested himself of his pack-harness, then said, simply, "If that's the case, I'll give you a hand." "Better stand back," the other cautioned him. "I don't need any help this is my line."
And when you've got on one hand a score to two of drinkin, quarrelsome, thievin', and abominably lazy servants to manage, and on the other two or three hundred fastidious people to please, and elegantly dressed ladies who can't manage their three or four servants at home, dawdlin' up to you every hour in the day, say in' about the same as, Mrs.
It consisted of a bunch of steel traps, some tools, a broken ax, a box of miscellaneous things such as trappers used, and a few articles of flannel. "Thievin' redskins," he added, in explanation of his poverty. "Not much of an outfit. But I'm the man for you. Besides, I had a pal onct who knew you on the plains, called you 'Buff' Jones. Old Jim Bent he was." "I recollect Jim," said Jones.
And then when I'd sold my barrowful, I was a-goin' 'ome with the chink in my pocket, and I'm blowed if some bloomin' thievin' beggar didn't nick the lot whilst I was just a-wettin' of my whistle, for callin' of oranges is dry work. Nicked the bloomin' lot 'e did and me with not a farden to take 'ome to my brother and his missus. 'How awful! said Anthea, with much sympathy.
"And 'Lave that, you omadhawn, sez Tishy, wid the look of a divil on her, what foolery are you at now? 'You thievin' miscreant, sez I to her, 'it's shankin' off to the pólis I'll be, and layin' a heavy charge agin you for robbin' and stealin', and you after lavin' the innicent child there and th' ould man to starve widout a penny to their names, sez I. 'Faugh! sez she, 'for that matter the fever's liker to have took her off agin now wid no throuble to be starvin', and maybe a good job too for iverybody. And 'Be this and be that, sez I, 'if I thought there was e'er a fear of it, 'tis wringin' your ugly neck round I'd be this instiant. 'Let go of that bag, sez she, sweepin' up some of the shillin's that was spilt.
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