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"Ye can be iv service ter Misther Robert, Jimmie?" The old man's face beamed with pride. "Ah, Jimmie, it's proud I am iv ye! Me own la-ad iv service ter Misther Robert! I'll spake ter him at wance." As Riley drew back to admire his son, his eye fell upon the silk hat and the black gloves.
"Sure I thought not," continued Phil, with a patronising air, "or ye'd niver ask for the bread kid out o' saisin. Now I was in the medical way meself wance ay, ye may laugh, but it's thrue I wos 'prentice to a 'pothecary, an' I've mixed up more midsins than would pisen the whole popilation of owld Ireland barrin' the praists, av coorse.
"Consiny Mrs. Warman wont reciev cat way bill 23645 Hibbert and Jones consinor cat is " He grinned and ran the end of the pen through his stubble of red hair. "What is th' swell worrd fer dead, Timmy?" he asked. "I'm writin' a letter t' th' swell clerks in New Yorrk that be always guyin' me about me letters, an' I 'll hand thim a swell worrd fer wance." "Deceased," said Timmy, grinning.
Juiz lost his sleep that night. He went and tould the neighbours he had forgot a piece of important business in Rio and must go back at wance.
A month 't was, or might be three weeks. Like a bolt from the blue it falled 'pon me an' that's a fact. An' I heard how you knawed the thing you as had such gude cause to hate un wance." "'Once?" "Well, no man's hate can outlive his reason, surely? I was with 'e, tu, then; but a man what lets himself suffer lifelong trouble from a fule be a fule himself.
"Why, then, do come to wance," said Joan excitedly; "for so long as they leaves me the house there'll be a home with me and Uncle Zebedee, and I'll go bail for the welcome you'll get gived 'ee there." Reuben was silent, and Joan, attributing this to some hesitation over the plan, threw further weight into her argument by saying, "There's the chapel too, Reuben.
She shlipped an' snatched at the spinifex. Wan minnit she held, an' thin slid down, down into the say. An' I woke callin' 'Mary Mary' in me throat." "Ye dramed it wance only, Connor?" said Coolin, with the insolent grin gone out of his eyes. "I dramed it three times, an' the last time, whin I waked, I felt a cold wind go over me.
"I ban't no croaker, as you knaws. Happy, are 'e? happy for wance? I suppose you'll say now, as you've said plenty times a'ready, that you 'm to the tail of your troubles for gude an' all just in your auld, silly fashion?" "Not me, auld chap, never no more so long as you 'm alive! Ha, ha, ha that's wan for you! Theer! if 't isn't gude to laugh again!"
This one does not draw well. Have you got a full pipe still, my friend?" "All right, Mr. Carrymooroo," replied Barney, knocking out the ashes. "I'll jist load wance more, and then, fire away." In a few minutes the big cigar and short pipe were in full play, and the hermit continued: "This country is very large and very rich, but it is not well worked.
"Ye must know that wance upon a time there wos a widdy as lived in a small town in the county o' Clare, in Owld Ireland, an' oh! but that was the place for drinkin' and fightin'. It wos there that I learned to use me sippers; and it wos there, too, that I learned to give up drinkin', for I comed for to see what a mighty dale o' harm it did to my poor countrymen.
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