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In th' good owld days they hanged thim be th' dozen to th' glor iv God an' th' greater safety iv all live stock. An th' pity is they didn't make a cleaner job iv ut." McHale, who was enjoying himself hugely, sifted tobacco into paper. "I won't say you ain't right, Corney," he observed mildly. "I always understood we was Scotch, but I ain't noways bigoted about it.
Tom Graves's splinty old carriage horse had ploughed its way through the bank, and all those whom he most contemned had flaunted through the breach in front of him. He rode the pony now and then, but he more often lent her to little Mary O'Grady, "Owld Sta's" untidy, red-cheeked, blue-eyed, and quite uneducated little girl.
Meanwhile the village sorely missed the bright face and sweet ways of 'th' owld Squire's gel' and many of the inhabitants tried to get news of her through Mrs. Spruce, but all in vain. That good lady, generally so talkative, was for once in her life more than discreetly dumb. All that she would say was that she "didn't know nothink.
"Now don't this feel homelike?" said Sam, looking round the room with great satisfaction. "If it wasn't for the heat I'd a'most think we was in a temperance coffee-house in old England." "Or owld Ireland," chimed in a sailor at the neighbouring table. "To say naething o' auld Scotland," added a rugged man in red hair, who sat beside him.
Thady, with the owld blood in your veins, and in Miss Feemy's may the divil's curse blacken him for the name he give her! you wouldn't be putting up quiet and aisy with what he's done? and the like of him too!" By this time Thady had stopped, and was beginning to waver in his determination of going to the priest.
If you'd only given him wan shot he might have stud it, but two was too much for him. But plaise, Mister Slagg, don't fire at monkeys again. I niver do it mesilf, an' can't stand by to see it. It's so like murther, an' the only wan I iver shot in me life was so like me own owld gran'mother that I've niver quite got over it."
It was daybreak when the ship sailed calmly over the lagoon towards Silver Bay. "Och! man," said Teddy Malone, in a low voice, to Jabez Jenkins, who stood near him, "why did ye want to run away wid the owld ship? It wor a sneakin' sort o' thing, warn't it, seein' that the poor little childers, an' the women, depind so much on what's inside of her?"
He had started enthusiastically many days before on this journey to the gold regions, under the full conviction that on the first or second day he would be, as he expressed it, "riding through fields of goold dust;" instead of which, day after day passed, and night after night, during which he endured all the agonies inseparable from a first journey on horseback, and still not a symptom of gold was to be seen, "no more nor in owld Ireland itself."
"Who's that? and what are ye wanting here? Oh! by the mortials, but av it aint Miss Feemy herself come back I declare!" And Mary ran round, and began to draw the bolts of the front door. Up jumped Larry at the unwelcome sound, from his accustomed seat by the fire. "What in the divil's name are ye afther? What are ye doing? Ye owld hag, will ye be letting the ruffians in on me?"
Thady, what's the matther? has anything happened the owld man?" "What owld man?" "Your father." "No, nothing's happened him; but but Captain Ussher is dead!" "Gracious glory no! why he was laving this for good and all this night. And how did he die?" and he whispered in his master's ear "did the boys do for him?" "I killed him by myself," answered Thady, in a whisper. "You killed him, Mr.
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