Give the girsha something to ate
among you, for the credit of the house, before she goes back," he added.
"Paddy Toole, girth that horse tighter, I tell you; I never can get you
to girth him as he ought to be girthed."
On bidding the women good-bye, Bryan looked towards Kathleen for a
moment, and her eye in return glanced on him as he was about to go. But
that simple glance, how significant was its import, and how clearly did
it convey the whole history of as pure a heart as ever beat within a
female bosom!
CHAPTEE VI.--Nanny Peety looks mysterious
--Hycy proves himself a good Judge of Horse-Flesh.
The day was all light, and life, and animation. The crops were going
down fast in every direction, and the fields were alive and cheerful
with the voice of mirth and labor. As they got into the vicinity of
Wallace's house they overtook or were over-taken by several of their
neighbors, among whom was seen our old friend, Jemmy, or as I his
acquaintances generally called him, honest Jemmy Burke, mounted upon a
brood mare with a foal at her heels, all his other horses having been
engaged in the labor of the season.
After having sympathized with him upon the loss he had sustained,
they soon allowed the subject to drop; for it was quite clear from the
expression of care, if not of sorrow, that was legible in his face, that
the very mention of it only caused him to feel additional anxiety.
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