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It was his intintion to sind th' cav'lry in over th' roofs, while th' army carried th' front stoop, protected be fire fr'm th' heavy artillery, while th' Fr-rinch navy shelled th' back dure. But this was seen to be impossible, because th' man that owned th' wine-shop next dure, he said 'twud dhrive away custom. All th' sthreets f'r miles ar-round was blockaded without effect.
"Od wite it!" replies the girl impatiently, "who's daft or dreamin' noo? I'd a bin dead wi' fear, if 'twas any such thing. It cudna be; all was sa luvesome, and bonny, and shaply." "Weel, and what do ye want o' me, lass?" asked the old woman sharply. "I want to know here's t' sixpence what I sud du," said the young lass. "'Twud be a pity to lose such a marrow, hey?"
Me cousin Felix's boy Aloysius, him that aftherwards wint to New York an' got a good job dhrivin' a carredge f'r th' captain iv a polis station, he was full iv pothry an' things; an' he come around wan night, an' says he, 'D'ye know, he says, ''twud be th' hite iv a good thing f'r th' Dooleys to have a reunion, he says.
'What's that? says I. 'Craps, says he. 'I've opened a palachal imporyium, he says, 'where, he says, ''twud please me very much, he says, 'me ol' abolitionist frind, he says, 'if ye'd dhrop in some day, he says, 'an' I'll roll th' sweet, white bones f'r ye, he says. ''Tis th' hope iv me people, he says.
F'r th' las' tin years I've been thryin' to decide whether 'twud be good policy an' thrue to me thraditions to make this here bar two or three feet longer, an' manny's th' night I've laid awake tryin' to puzzle it out. But I don't know what to do with th' Ph'lippeens anny more thin I did las' summer, befure I heerd tell iv thim.
But whin war is declared they begin to think what a tur-rble thing 'twud be if they niver come home to their fireside an' their wife got marrid again an' all their grandchildher an' their great-grandchildher an' their widow an' th' man that marrid her an' his divoorced wife an' their rilitives, descindants, friends, an' acquaintances wud have to live on afther father was dead and gone with a large piece iv broken iron in his stomach or back, as th' case might be, but a pension come fr'm th' Governmint.
Liar it is, tho' 'twud serve him right ter be th' other. An' where's his second wife?" "That's what's a-worryin' him; he don't know." "Ah, ha!" Riley chuckled, "why shouldn't it? It's bad enough when th' wife don't know where ye are, but when ye don't know where th' wife is an' her apt ter turn up anny minnit! Ah, let him worry; it's good f'r him. What else did ye find out by ye'er mixin's?"
"'Twud be better for you if ut were," sez ould Mother Shadd, an' she had ought to know, for Shadd, in the ind av his service, dhrank bung- full each night. 'Wid that I tuk off my gloves there was pipe-clay in thim, so that they stud alone an' pulled up my chair, lookin' round at the china ornaments an' bits av things in the Shadds' quarters.
'I'm anxious f'r to ind this hor'ble war, he says, 'which has cost me manny a sleepy night, he says; 'but 'twud be a crime f'r to sind a sojer onprepared to battle, he says. 'Wait f'r th' pijammas, he says. 'Thin on to war, he says; 'an' let ye'er watchword be, "Raymimber ye'er manners," he says. "'They'se a man out here, says th' privit sicrity, 'that wants to see ye, he says.
Hadji wan by wan, he says, 'but 'twud be betther, he says, 'f'r to stand up here an' be prisinted to her as a whole, he says, 'f'r, he says, ''tis growing late an' I want ye to come up to th' house, he says, 'an' pick a mission'ry with me, he says. 'A Baptist, he says, 'raised on th' farm, he says.
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