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But when his past rose up it took entire possession of him. "Why didn't ye tell me this before?" "I've not knowed it the long time meself." "What towken have ye got?" "Towken enough for you and me." "Show it to me." "I will not." "Ye're desavin' me. Ye have no towken." "Thin marry on yer quarther-brade if ye dare!"
"It is fortunate for poor Elwood that the night is so mild and pleasant." "Fort'nit for ourselves, be the same towken; for without our fire we'd be rather cool when we slept, and the cold would keep us awake all night." "But we have the blanket with us, and that would protect us at any time, no matter how cold it might be." "Yis," assented Tim, with a great sigh.
"Yes, I am sad enough, too." "Ah! but it is not exactly that be the towken of another faaling intirely." "What is it then?" "Whin it's yourself that is lost and awandtherin' off by yourself all alone, and nobody with yees, then I thinks it's yees that I loves more nor him that stays with me.
The faithful sunset-tinted face of Blackbird, immovable as a fixed star, regarded the battered cobbler as it might have regarded a great manitou when the island was young. "How did you come by this, Owen?" "I come by it from one that had throuble. Has yerself iver seen it before, John McGillis?" "I have." "Is it a towken that ye're not a widdy?" "It is."
"It's mighty lucky yees are here," said Tim, "for every mother's son that can swim will be hugged by a half-dozen that can't, which would be bad for me." "Why so; can't you swim?" "Not a bit of it." "And nothing but this bench to keep us from sinking." "And be the same towken isn't that good enough, if it only kaaps us afloat? Can't ye be satisfied?" "Look! how grand!"
If they were Indians, it was to be expected that they had canoes somewhere, and if they were speedily found, he would as speedily be overhauled. "In which case Tim O'Rooney will lose his daar, and be the same towken lose himself, and the boys won't get their dinner."
"Bear up a little longer, my good fellow. There's plenty of tobacco in the country, and there must be some that is waiting expressly for you." "Where bees the same?" "Of course we are to find that out; and I haven't the least doubt but the way will appear." "Elwood," sighed Tim, "'spose by towken of the severe suffering that meself is undergoing I should lose me intellect "
"I am a widdy, Owen." The cobbler made a feint to rise, but sank back, repeating, at the top of his breath, "Ye're the loire!" "What do ye mane?" sternly demanded John. "Ye know I've had me throuble. Ye know I've lost me wife in the old counthry. It's a year gone. Was the praste that wrote the letther a loire?" "I have a towken that ye're not the widdy ye think ye are."
"The blarney of your lip doesn't desave me, John McGillis," responded his cousin the cobbler, with grimness. "But whin will ye give me the word you've got, Owen?" "I'll not give it to ye till the boats go out." "Will ye tell me, is the colleen alive, thin?" "I've tould ye ye're not a widdy." "If the colleen is alive, the towken would be sint to me." "Thin ye've got it," said Owen.
And be the tame towken we are all slightly hungry." Now arose a query. The island was so small that it contained no game of any kind, and so was unavailable to supply their wants. The river abounded in fish, but there was no means of catching them; and finally, after some discussion, it was agreed that Tim should cross over to the mainland and shoot something.
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