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One never knows exactly whether to laugh or cry over them, catching their chatter as they file past the show-windows of the long, showy street. "Look a' that pink silk with the figures on it!" "I've seen them as is betther nor that in the ould counthree. Patsy Malorrn, let alon' hangin' onto the shawl of me!"
"Sometime de moon affects people wen it changes hit makes some folks crazy en dey is hard to git alon wid." "If you plant Irish pertatoes on de light of de moon you hev nuthin but top. Whatever ter be made underneath de ground like turnips, potatoes, onions is ter be planted by de dark of de moon. Beans, peas, corn in de light of de moon.
"Why, Father," I stammered, "of course I don't want to do anything unless you're willing, but I had thought I'd like I did want to go and study in the city I think or somewhere." "Dear me! Dear me!" he mused, his voice very low and even; "an' you just through the University; 'way up to the top, too. Can't ye seems as if ye better stop alon' of us an' study home, same's you used to?
I am here, too, quite alon; but my friend, she wait outside the churchyard, by-side the leetle river, for she must not think I know you so I am come alon. 'You're a quarter late, and I lost a fight by you, old girl, this morning, said the gay man, and spat on the ground; 'and I wish you would not call me Diddle. I'll call you Granny if you do. 'Eh bien! Dud, then. She is vary nice wat you like.
"Why, ye're through school." "Yes, but I I wish I could go on studying; if I may." The words tripped over each other in my embarrassment. The jog, jog of the chair paused suddenly, leaving for a moment only the ticking of the clock to break the silence. "Not goin' to put up 'ith us an' stay right alon', eh?" he asked; and rocked twice, then stopped again, in suspense for the answer.
At last one said that he had seen them. "The stuff is rather thin, your excellency, but the boots are splendid." We were accosted by a clean-limbed, joyous youth, who bore on his cap the outstretched winged badge of the police. He said "Mister Sirdar, he tell me take you alon' o' Nickshitch."
"Guess a child o' mine don't need to teach an' get all dragged out, alon' of a passel o' wild children! No, no, Helen 'Lizy;" he added more softly, sinking back into the old attitude and once more closing his eyes; "if the's so much more to learn, an' you want to go ahead an' learn it, just you go an' get it done with.
"Looks like it might be a good crab season," he muttered, "an' I hope t' gum! the city folks won't trifle with the isters out o' season. 'Brightly gleams our Father's mercy, From His lighthouse evermore; But to us " puff, pant, groan! "'He gives the keepin' of the lights alon' the shore!" David had reached the Light! He always timed himself to the moment.
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