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"Well, what d'ye say y' could paddle for, when y' couldn't?" "I can paddle. I paddled as long as I had anythin' but a sthick." "Oh, you dum landlubber!" smirked Glover. "What if I should order ye to the masthead?" "I wouldn't go," asseverated Sweeny. "I'll moind no man who isn't me suparior officer. I've moindin' enough to do in the arrmy. I wouldn't go, onless the liftinint towld me.
Splash ye awfully, Sweeny." Thus did Captain Glover prattle in his cheerful way while the party made its preparations for the night. They were like ants lodged in some transverse crack of a lofty wall. They were in a deep cut of the shelf, with fifteen hundred or two thousand feet of sandstone above, and the porphyry-colored river thirty feet below.
You don't suppose, do you, that old man Crookes, or Kenniston, or little Sweeny, or all that lot would give you one little bit of a chance for your life if they got a grip on you. Cover your shorts if you want to, but, for God's sake, don't begin to buy in the same breath. You wait a while. If this market has touched bottom, we'll be able to tell in a few days.
Cornelius Hartnett, Hugh Waddell, and Terence Sweeny, all Irishmen, were members of the Court, and among the members of the provincial assembly I find such names as Murphy, Leary, Kearney, McLewean, Dunn, Keenan, McManus, Ryan, Bourke, Logan, and others showing an Irish origin.
After an anxious search they discovered a bowlder lying in the river beneath the shelf, with a flat surface perfectly suited to their purpose. There, too, was a cleft, but a miserably small one. "We can't jam a cord in that," said Glover; "nor the handle of a paddle nuther." "It'll howld me bagonet," suggested Sweeny. "It can be made to hold it," decided Thurstane.
The only change was that, owing to scarcity of fuel, no watch-fires were built. As Thurstane expected an attack, and as Indian assaults usually take place just before daybreak, he chose the first half of the night for his tour of sleep. At one he was awakened by Sweeny, who was sergeant of his squad, Kelly being with Meyer and Shubert with Coronado. "Well, Sweeny, anything stirring?" he asked.
Sweeny, though an oppressed woman, was not wanting in spirit. She gave Peter Walsh's message in a way calculated to rouse and irritate her husband. "He says that if you don't get up out of that mighty quick there'll be them here that will make you." "Hell to your soul!" said Sweeny, "what way's that of talking? Ask him now is the wind in the southeast or is it not?"
"Timothy Sweeny says you're to go back, for if you come in to the quay today there'll be the devil and all if not worse." "If that's the way of it I will go back; but I'd be glad, so I would, if I knew what Sweeny means by it.
"I guess, Charlie," he said, "that there won't be much speculating about this." "Why, gen'lemen," cried Sweeny, brandishing a fork, "we're going to sell him right out o' the market, so we are. Simply flood out the son-of-a-gun you understand me, gen'lemen?" Cressler shook his head. "No," he answered. "No, you must count me out. I quit speculating years ago.
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