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Th' ould woman will have to shtay in the wagon till the wather runs off of itself." "I wonder if it is possible my poor father wandered into town," mused Dick. "Perhaps he did that and was locked up by the police. He is well, you know he gets strange spells," and the youth's face flushed. "Run into town, lad, and make a search," answered the boomer. "If I and Rasco get the chance we'll follow.
Divil a one livin' knows me betther than Toal Finigan, sure enough, boys." "Arra, Art, do you remember the day you crossed the weir, below Tom Booth's," pursued Toal, "when the river was up, and the wather jist intherin' your mouth?" "That was the day Peggy Booth fainted, when she thought I was gone; begad, an' I was near it." "The very day."
I pressed on into the gully, at whose entrance the second dead horse lay, and the next minute, as Sandho forced the bushes apart with his breast, I saw marks of blood on a stone just beneath where the apes had been chattering in their excitement; and then I drew rein and felt completely paralysed, for a faint voice, whose tones were unmistakable, cried: "Help! Wather, for the love of Heaven!"
"Now, Martin darlint," cried the Irishman, throwing aside his hat for the first time, and displaying his well-known jolly visage, of which the forehead, eyes, and nose alone survived the general inundation of red hair, "ye'll be hungry, I've small doubt, so sit ye down, lad, to supper, and you'll tell me yer story as ye go along, and afther that I'll tell ye mine, while I smoke my pipe, the ould cutty, boy, that has corned through fire and wather, sound as a bell and blacker than iver!"
"But there can't be a salmon here, Dennis! and, if you'll but think, if one had come up last tide, he'd be gone to the higher pools by now." "Shure thin, and your honour's the thrue fisherman, and understands it all like a book. Why, ye spake as if ye'd known the wather a thousand years! As I said, how could there be a fish here at all, just now?"
For answer, Medenham disconnected a lamp and held it close to his own face. "Do you recognize me?" he asked. Devar, in blank astonishment, affected to screw in his eyeglass more firmly. "No," he said, "nor am I particularly anxious to make your acquaintance. You have behaved wather badly, I understand, but that is of no consequence now, as Simmonds has bwought his car he-aw " "Look again, Devar.
"Aw the night it was," said Kilquhanity, after a pause, blowing a cloud of tobacco smoke into the air, "the night it was, me darlin's! Bitther cowld in that Roosian counthry, though but late summer, and nothin' to ate but a lump of bread, no bigger than a dickybird's skull; nothin' to drink but wather. Turrible, turrible, and for clothes to wear Mother of Moses! that was a bad day for clothes!
Maybe, you could give me a sup o' dhrink wather, or anything to moisten the morsel I'm atin? Wurrah, ma'am dear, make haste, it's goin' agin' the breath wid me!" "Oh, the sorra taste o' wather, Darby," said Owen; "sure this is Christmas-eve, you know: so you see, Darby, for ould acquaintance sake, an' that you may put up an odd prayer now an' thin for us, jist be thryin' this."
It was Hannah who, as I opened the kitchen door, turned at the sound, and set down the saucepan she was scouring. "Is it home ye are? Mercy to goodness!" So it's into the wather ye were?" I admitted it. "Hannah?" I said softly. "What then?" "Does mother know about the boat?" "Now don't ye be wheedlin'."
An' now no wan'll speak to Willum Waldorf Asthor, an' he's not goin' to be a jook at all, an' he may have to come back here an' be nachurlized over again like a Bohamian. He's all broke up about it. He's gone to Germany to take a bath." "Lord, help us," said Mr. Hennessy, "can't he get wan nearer home?" "It seems not," said Mr. Dooley. "Mebbe the Prince iv Wales has had th' wather cut off.
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