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I tuk me rifle, av coorse, just for company, you know, but not to shoot, for I'm not bloodthirsty, by no means. Well, I hadn't bin long down whin a rustle in the laves towld me that somethin' was comin', an' sure enough down trotted a little deer as purty a thing as you could wish to see. It took a dhrink, tremblin' all the time, an' there was good cause, for another rustlin' was heard.
After the haythen had fired at us, the good man actilly made me promise not to do the wretch hurt if the chance was given me; and a mighty foolish thing, for all it was Master Harvey who towld me, fur I've had a chance or two at the spalpaan since. Oh blissed Virgin, why didn't I cut his wizzen for him whin I could have done it that is, if I could!"
"Arrah, who towld you so, agra?" "Sure the boy will take care of you now, won't he?" "What boy?" "Andy, sure!" "Andy!" replied his mother, in amazement. "Andy, indeed! out o' place, and without a bawbee to bless himself with! stayin' out all night, the blackguard!" "By this and that, I don't think you know a word about it," cried the friend, whose turn it was for wonder now.
Alick towld me that, for a long time afther Connor O'Donovan was thransported, the father an' son wor afeard of him. He hard it from his sister Biddy, an' it appears that the Bodagh's daughter tould her family that he used to stare her out of countenance at mass, an' several times struv to put the furraun on her in hopes to get acquainted."
But as I was comin' back, I says to myself, says I, `Larry, ye'll be the better of a small glass o' somethin' eh! So in I goes to a grog-shop, and faix I had to pay half-a-dollar for a thimbleful o' brandy, bad luck to them, as would turn the stomik o' a pig. I almost had a round wi' the landlord; but they towld me it wos the same iverywhere.
Misther Hewitt ut is, sez he, 'that attinds to the onaccountable departmint, him as wint by a minut ago. You go an' bother him. That's how I was towld, sor." Hewitt smiled. "Very good," he said; "and now what are these extraordinary troubles of yours?
"Why," said O'Sullivan, "you see he's not altogether complete in the demonstheration o' the mashine; it is not by the ringin' o' the bell it is done, but " "But what?" broke in O'Reirdon impatiently. "Do you mane for to say there is a bell in it at all at all?" "Yis, I do," said O'Sullivan. "I towld you so," said the promulgator of the story.
"Captain Guy," said O'Riley, addressing his commander with a solemn face, "haven't ye more nor wance towld me o' the queer thing in the deserts they calls the mirage?" "I have," answered the captain, with a puzzled look. "An' didn't ye say there was somethin' like it in the Polar Seas, that made ye see flags, an' ships, an' things o' that sort when there was no sich things there at all?"
I dundthered at his doore till he opened it, thin I towld him I'd seen th' Banshee! "'That bates Bannagher! says he. "'It bates th' divil, says I. 'But whose fur above th' night is what I'd like t' know. "'Oul Misther Chaine, says he, 'as sure as gun's iron!" The narrative stopped abruptly, stopped at McShane's door. "Did oul Misther Chaine die that night?" Anna asked.
"Why, Miss, I towld him as how you war up, and betther, thank God, since you war home." It was clearly necessary that she should see the priest; but she insisted on his not being shown in till she had dressed herself; and she again submitted herself to those agonies which she trusted, for a time, would hide her disgrace, which at last must become known to all.
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