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"Oh, fire yer bow-arreys!" he screamed. "Ye can't hit the side av a waggin. Ah, ye bloody, murtherin' nagers! go 'way wid yer long poles. I'd fight a hundred av the loikes av ye wid ownly a shillelah." One audacious thrust of a lance he parried very dexterously with his bayonet, at the same time screeching defiantly and scornfully in the face of his hideous assailant.
The intending immigrant, unconscious of any hindrance to his crossing, was calmly driving down to the ferry-boat, a flat-bottomed craft propelled by long oars, or sweeps, when the ferryman stopped him with the question, "What hev ye got into yer waggin?" "Oxen," sententiously replied the newcomer.
Such a remarkable-looking young woman! not exactly handsome but you couldn't possibly pass her over." "Enid Glenwilliam!" exclaimed Marcia, with a startled voice. "But of course, Waggin, they weren't alone?" "Oh no probably not! though though I didn't see any one else. They seemed so full of talk I didn't speak to Mr. Arthur. Who do you say she was?" repeated Waggin, innocently.
Look at the town there all built of stone an' paved, wid a fine public well in the square, an' a weigh-house, an' the groves of lilac an' laburnums all out in flower an' dippin' in the wather; where ye may catch mighty fine trout out iv yer bedroom window, bedad ye may, or out of yer kitchin, an' draw them out iv the wather an' dhrop thim in' the fryin' pan off the hook with the bait in their mouths, an' their tails waggin', finishing their brakefasts thimselves while they get yours ready!
'Them two fellers from Bargo; one of 'em's a new chum got his hair cut short, just like Dick's. My word, I thought he'd been waggin' it from some o' them Gov'ment institoosh'ns. I did raly, Dick, old man. 'You're precious free and easy, my young friend, says Starlight, walking over. 'I rather like you.
The ould man was dhrunk, his chin waggin' on the tiller, an' I sez to myself, 'If iver I stick my boat-huk into T-wharf again, I'll show the saints fwhat manner o' craft they saved me out av. Now, I'm here, as ye can well see, an' the model of the dhirty ould Kathleen, that took me a month to make, I gave ut to the priest, an' he hung ut up forninst the altar.
"I know," said the girl, gloomily "'Your money or your life' for I suppose it sounds like that. Corry would say his convictions are his life. But why 'a man, Waggin?" She straightened her pretty shoulders. "I don't believe you'd mind if it were a woman. You don't believe in a woman having convictions!" Waggin looked a little bewildered. "I'm old-fashioned, I suppose but "
Marcia could not see him; but his eyes were on her perpetually. A wonderfully handsome fellow, thought Waggin. The profile and brow perfect, the head fine, the eyes full too full! of consciousness, as though the personality behind burnt with too intense a flame. Waggin liked him, and was in some sort afraid of him.
Toward the end, when you kinder gathered her up and she sorter dropped her head into your breast-pocket, and seemed to go to sleep, like ez ef she was still a little girl, it so reminded me of the times when I used to tote her myself walkin' by the waggin at Platt River, that it made me wish the old woman was here to see it."
She smiled, however, and bowed to the tall good-looking youth, who seemed unaccountably shy and confused as he went off to look after the luggage. "Here is the wagon; come along," said Bob, leading his mother out of the station. "The waggin, boy; I don't see no waggin." "Why, there, with the pair of bay horses." "You don't mean the carridge by the fence, do you?"
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