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" No, sorr." 



*' Come on to the cove. He's sure to come back 

 there, if he ever comes back. If you can't see 

 them from there they must have gone down the 

 coast to the caves. I tell you what it is, Moriarty, 

 relations or no relations, I'm not going to have that 

 chap hanging round the premises any longer. He 

 comes to Drumgool and he sits and reads a news- 

 paper, and he pretends to be a fool, and all the 

 time he's taking everything in, and he goes oS and 

 talks about everything he sees, and I beheve it's 

 him and his talk that's knocked my bargain with 

 old Shoveler over those pigs. He heard me say 

 I'd take two pounds less than I was asking 

 Shoveler, and to-day the old chap was ' stiff as a 

 rock.' " 



" I don't think he's any good about the place, 

 sorr," said Moriarty. " Yesterday, when Andy 

 was giving Garryowen his exercise on the f oiur-mile 

 track, there he was, pottin' about with his eye on 

 the horse. You know, sorr, Andy has no hkin' 

 for him, and as Andy was passin' the big scrub, 

 there was Misther Giveen, and he up and calls to 

 Andy. ' That's a hkely colt,' says he, ' and is me 

 cousin thinkin' of runnin' him next year? ' he 

 says." 



" Good Lord! " said Garryo wen's owner, taking 

 his seat on a rock. " I hope Andy didn't spUt? " 



" SpUt, sorr! ' To h — 1 wid you,' says Andy, 

 and on he goes, and Buck Slane, who was up on 

 the Cat — and be the same token, sorr, Garryowen 



