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"Ye moight foine it dang aisy yeerself, Dave," observed a middle-aged diner significantly. "I been a misfortunate man, there's no denyin'," continued the swagman; "but I never done a injury to nobody in my life, so fur as I'm aware about." "What did he get the three months for?" asked Dave, turning to Tam.
"It's a good sowl that the major is, anyway," returned the washerwoman; "and a kind sowl aye, and a brave sowl too; and ye'll say all that yeerself, sargeant, I'm thinking."
"Off too." "Off! And who has dared to interfere with my perquisites?" "Sure, jist the divil," said Betty; "and who'll be taking yeerself away some of these times too, without asking yeer lave." "Silence, you witch!" said Lawton, with difficulty suppressing a laugh. "Is this the manner in which to address an officer?"
"The drop she speaks of is often of an extraordinary size, and then she has acquired the freedom of a soldier's manner." "Pooh! captain, darling," cried Betty, "why do you bother the woman? Talk like yeerself, dear, and it's no fool of a tongue that ye've got in yeer own head. But jist here-away that sargeant made a halt, thinking there might be more divils than one stirring, the night.
"Faith, my dear jewel of a doctor, but it was this side I was expicting you; the whole corps come down on this side but yeerself," said Betty, winking at the trooper; "but I've been feeding the wounded, in yeer absence, with the fat of the land." "Barbarous stupidity!" cried the panic-stricken physician, "to feed men laboring under the excitement of fever with powerful nutriment.
Some day a thoughtless brakesman like yeerself will take a careless breath in the vicinity and there ain't an undertaker this side o' Saskatoon." Torrance, half nettled, laughed carelessly. "If you'd sharpen up your wits more, Murphy, hustling along here in reasonable hours, instead of insulting a work you're not big enough to understand, you'd get away sooner to a softer job." "Softer, is it?
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