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Lieutenant Jarvis has a wife and two children, and his loss would be greatly felt, whoile I I well I haven't any wan, sir, and besoides, I'm an Irishman, and you know, kurnel, an Irishman is a fool for luck." This last was said with a broad grin.
I do not know," sez I, "fwhat onderhand divilmint you have conthrived, but by what I've seen I know that you cannot commit murdher wid another man's rifle such shakin' cowards you are. I'm goin' to slape," I sez, "an' you can blow my head off whoile I lay." I did not slape, though, for a long time. Can ye wonder?
"What I hope niver to see again, sorr," said Barney, compressing his lips solemnly. "Six impty chairs, sorr, wid six segyars as hoigh up from the flure as a man's mout', puffin' and a-blowin' out shmoke loike a chimbley! An' ivery oncet in a whoile the segyars would go down kind of an' be tapped loike as if wid a finger of a shmoker, and the ashes would fall off onto the flure!"
Wid that I gave him both, one after the other, smash through the low gyard that he'd been taught whin he was a boy, an' the eyebrow shut down on the cheek-bone like the wing av a sick crow. "'Will you hear reason now, ye brave man? sez I. "'Not whoile I can speak, sez he, staggerin' up blind as a stump.
I do not know, sez I, 'fwhat onderhand divilmint you have conthrived, but by what I've seen I know that you cannot commit murdher wid another man's rifle such shakin' cowards you are. I'm goin' to slape, I sez, 'an' you can blow my head off whoile I lay. I did not slape, though, for a long time. Can ye wonder?
Vulmea sez no word for a whoile but licked his lips cat-ways. Thin he threw up his head an' made the men swear by ivry oath known to stand by him not alone in the room but at the Coort-martial that was to set on me! He tould off five av the biggest to stretch me on my cot whin the shot was fired, an' another man he tould off to put out the light, an' yet another to load my rifle.
I was loath to do ut, but I wint round an' swung into the jaw side-on an' shifted ut a half pace to the lef'. "Will ye hear reason now?" sez I; "I can't keep my timper much longer, an' 'tis like I will hurt you." "Not whoile I can stand," he mumbles out av one corner av his mouth. So I closed an' threw him blind, dumb, an' sick, an' jammed the jaw straight.
"Is anything the matter with little Frank?" exclaimed Inza, hastily rising. "Is he ill, Maggie?" "Nivver a bit," answered the girl. "He's slaping loike a top." "But what is it? You look so queer." "It's quare Oi feel, ma'am. Oi left him in his little bed a whoile ago to take a bit av a breath, which Oi naded.
But it was diff'rint wid the others, an' why I cannot say, excipt that some men are borrun mane an' go to dhirty murdher where a fist is more than enough. Afther a whoile, they changed their chune to me an' was desp'rit frien'ly all twelve av thim cursin' O'Hara in chorus. "'Eyah, sez I, 'O'Hara's a divil an' I'm not for denyin' ut, but is he the only man in the wurruld? Let him go.
"'I've got wan, sez he, grinnin', 'big as you, Mulvaney, an' fair half as ugly. Let me go get another. "I was dishpleased at the personability av that remark, so I tucks him under my arm an' carries him to Crook who was watchin' how the fight wint. Crook cuffs him till the bhoy cries, an' thin sez nothin' for a whoile. "The Paythans began to flicker onaisy, an' our men roared. 'Opin ordher!
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