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"Fwhat ails the Tyrone?" thinks I; "they've the makin's av a most convanient fight here." 'A man behind me sez beseechful an' in a whisper: "Let me get at thim! For the Love av Mary give me room beside ye, ye tall man!" "An' who are you that's so anxious to be kilt?" sez I, widout turnin' my head, for the long knives was dancin' in front like the sun on Donegal Bay whin ut's rough.
Did you iver have onendin' devilmint an' nothin' to pay for it in your life, sorr? 'Never, without having to pay, I said. 'That's thrue! 'Tis mane whin you considher on ut; but ut's the same wid horse or fut. A headache if you dhrink, an' a belly-ache if you eat too much, an' a heart-ache to kape all down. Faith, the beast only gets the colic, an' he's the lucky man.
Quilty in wrath at these aspersions on an honourable calling, "I'm a notion to get down an' slug the head off iv yez! Faix, ut's no murder to kill a Chinaman, but a bright jewel in me starry crown, ye long-nailed, rat-eatin', harrse-haired, pipe-hittin' slave iv th' black pill! I'll make yez think I'm a Hip Sing Tong or a runaway freight on th' big hill. I'll slaughter yez, mind, if I get off.
"I don't know," said Barney, quietly. "I didn't t'ink so before." "Before? Before what? When?" I asked. "Whin you was writin' shtories about ut, sorr," said Barney, respectfully. "You've had a black horse-hair sofy turn white in a single noight, sorr, for the soight of horror ut's witnessed.
But Samuel Dundee was away on a three-years' voyage and his ship fell overdue. Further to complicate the situation, a baby boy, past two years old, was waiting for him in the arms of his wife. The months passed, and the wife grew thin with worrying. "Ut's no meself I'm thunkun' on," she is reported to have said many times, "but ut's the puir fatherless bairn.
"You were going to tell me about the bird's-eye," he reminded. "Ut's loike this: Here an' yon in th' timber there's a bird's-eye tree bird's-eye maple, ye know. 'Tis scarce enough, wid only a tree now an' again, an' ut takes an expert to spot ut. "Well, th' bird's-eye brings around a hundred dollars a thousan', an' divil a bit av ut gits to Appleton's mills.
"What d'you think of this?" He held out the little boy. The girl took the card and scrutinised it reverently; she said in a detached voice: "Indeed, an' ut's pretty, too." "Would you like it?" "Oh I if 'tis not taking ut from you." Old Heythorp shook his head, and pointed to the dressing-table. "Over there you'll find a sovereign. Little present for a good girl." She uttered a deep sigh.
Mulvaney climbed on to the refreshment-bar, settled himself comfortably by the beer, and went on, "Whin the row was at ut's foinest an' B Comp'ny was fur goin' out to murther this man Thrigg on the p'rade-groun', Learoyd here takes up his helmut an' sez fwhat was ut ye said?" "Ah said," said Learoyd, "gie us t' brass.
Oh my time past, whin I put me fut through ivry livin' wan av the Tin Commandmints between Revelly and Lights Out, blew the froth off a pewter, wiped me moustache wid the back av me hand, an' slept on ut all as quiet as a little child! But ut's over ut's over, an' 'twill niver come back to me; not though I prayed for a week av Sundays.
Ut's been lifted out o' ground to be afther swallowin' us in a sweet dose will be the lot av us, mesilf with as foine a gir-rl av school age as iver you'll see in anny counthry." "Ah yes, Barnay," said St. George soothingly but he would have tried now to soothe a man in the embrace of a sea-serpent in just the same absent-minded way, Amory thought indulgently.
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