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'Minds me 'f that last ditch people talk of dyin' in. Must say I'd rather be in the trough 'f the sea." "An' what kind av a trough is that?" inquired Sweeny, inquisitive even in his dumps. "It's the trough where they feed the niggers out to the sharks." "Faix, an' I'd loike to see it at feedin' time," answered Sweeny with a feeble chuckle.
Between them yawned a grave they had been digging and near at hand lay a long, quiet form wrapped in old canvas. "Mac, I'll be domned if I loike this job," said Casey, drawing hard at his black pipe. "Yez want to be a directhor of the U. P. R., huh?" replied McDermott. "Shure an' I've did ivery job but run an ingine.... It's imposed on we are, Mac. Thim troopers niver work.
"Phat's that in all the worrld?" exclaimed Mrs. Carroll. "Hivin preserve us, it's little Patsy. Tim, ye'll 'av to be spakin' to that child for the swearin'. Listen to the oaths av 'im. The Lord forgive 'im!" Tim strode to the door, followed by his wife. "Phat the blank, blank is this yellin' about? Phat d'ye mane swearin' loike that, Patsy?
'Then he is the very man to take charge of a letter; he knows the trouble of writing one. 'Aye, marry does he, an tou comest to that, mon; only it takes him four hours to write as mony lines. Tan, it is a great round hand loike, that one can read easily, and not loike your honour's, that are like midge's taes. But for ganging to Carloisle, he's dead foundered, man, as cripple as Eckie's mear.
"Just a word, Kate; I don't know whether she has any money or not, but I 'll pay her bill, as soon as it is safe for me to come back." "Oh, the divil take her bill. She'll have the best in the house, annyhow, an' Oi'm only hopin' that fellow will turn up huntin' her. Oi'd loike ter take one slap at the spalpane." Fully convinced as to Mrs.
"That's a good fellow, go along," chimed in the editor, bending down to his writing again. Such disastrous acquiescence puzzled Pat for a moment, and he growled, "No wonder yer prints a paper that's loike a lump o' lead, when 'stead o' lookin' for news yer turns it away from yer doors." "Now, look here, my man," said the editor rising, "if you have anything to say, say it.
'For Christ's zake, zur, cried one of them, an old ruddy-faced countryman, 'move the bodies o' these soldier rogues into the road, and let it zeem as how they have perished in a chance fight wi' your own troopers loike.
But, to my especial friend the boatswain the end of the contest was now a foregone conclusion and victory assured to me. "Bedad, me bhoy," he whispered in my ear as he prepared me for what turned out to be the final round of the battle, "that last dhroive av yourn wor loike the kick av a horse, or a pony anyhow! One more brace av them one-twos, Misther Gray-ham, an' he'll be kilt an' done wid!"
"Well then, we may as weel let t' fire goa aat first as last," rejoined the good wife, a little ruffled. "Noa thaa shalln't. I loike a gooid foire as weel as onybody; and if thaa grumbles ony maar, I weant go to th' pit agean."
And Perley, a gaunt, ugly fellow, who had been a famous hunter and trapper in his day, took off his hat and mopped his brow, before he said, in a small, cautious voice, entirely out of keeping with the rest of him: 'The treuth on it is, Squoire, we don't loike the job. We be afeard of their havin' the law on us. 'Oh, you're afraid, are you? said the Squire angrily.
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