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His very nature seemed belligerent. "The trouble with you, Jim," she said, "is that you'd iver go foightin' in toimes of peace. Foight when foightin's to be done, and the rest of the toime look plissant loike the Gineral." "I ain't foightin' in times of peace any more," responded little Jim confidentially. "I ain't licked a boy for three weeks. Mebbe I won't lick any one all summer."
"He's ownly kickin' presarved mate tins about the flure av his panthry, which he kapes especial fur such toimes as he's in a rage wid anyone as offinds him, whin, instead av standin' up loike a man an' foightin' it out wid the chap that angers him, he goes and locks himsilf in the panthry an' kicks the harmless ould tins about, an' bangs 'em ag'in the bulkhead at the side, till ye'd think he was smashin' the howl ship!"
His mother observed it. "But what you need, Jim," she went on, "is to be takin' a tuck in yoursilf. Look at the Gineral. Does he go foightin' in toimes of peace? That he don't. Will you look at the Gineral, Jim?" Now Pat and Mike had been instructed to look at the General as their pattern. This appeal was placing Jim alongside of his two big brothers.
Phil, begorra, I b'lave that cussed Redskin is in this town fur trouble, an' you jist remember he'll git it one av these toimes. He ain't natural Injun. Uncle Cam is right. He's not like them Osages that comes here annuity days. All that's Osage about him is his clothes." While we were talking, Jean Pahusca came silently into the company and sat down under the oak tree shading the walk.
Unmindful of his injury, he leaped to his feet and turned to face Daddy Dunnigan, who was returning his crutch to his armpit. "Toimes Oi've yanked Captain Fronte from th' road av harm," the old man was saying, and the red-rimmed, rheumy eyes shone bright; "wanst from in front av a char-rge av the hillmen an' wanst beyant Khybar.
We ha' got atween us to get Maister Ned off that be the thing as be settled. It doan't matter how it's done, but it's got to be done soomhow; and oi rely on thee to maake moi story good, whatever it be. "There can't be nowt wrong about it a loife vor a loife be fair, any way. There be more nor eno' in Yorkshire in these toimes, and one more or less be of no account to any one."
"All right, Mick; if he gets across thirteen times you can ship him back to his native land," was the reply. "Shure now, an' won't you make it tin, sor?" "No, no; I need him to take the conceit out of some of the new Dogs that are coming." "Thirteen toimes and he is free, sor; it's a bargain." A new lot of Rabbits arrived about this time, and one of these was colored much like Little Warhorse.
Andy and Jim were not in such a hurry to rise, having reached the age when boys need a deal of persuasion to get them up. "They'll be along in a minute," thought the widow. "Here comes Moike." Along they were in a minute, as their mother had predicted. The little woman was fond of effect. "There's toimes when it's the thing to spake before 'em all," she thought. "This is wan of 'em.
And 'twere that dusty and hot oi did get mortal drouthy in my drawt and a niver had a drop in my water-bottle; I'd gied it all to the childer." "What about rations?" said the chaplain. "Oh I were bit leery i' my innerds at toimes, but oi had my emargency ration, and them A.S.C. chaps were pretty sprack; they kep up wi' us most times.
For a moment Slavin stared after Redmond's crouching form, as his subordinate disappeared in the gloom, "Thrust no harm comes tu th' lad," he muttered irresolutely, "quick as a flash is th' bhoy wid his head, eyah! but he's inclined tu be over rash at toimes." "Oh, he's all right," hissed Yorke reassuringly, "don't you get worrying over him making any bad breaks, Burke.
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