"Here's
Mike," said the clerk, getting down from his stool, and approaching Mr.
But it's lost he is, me little boy
Mike. He was playin' on the sidewalk only this mornin'--or was it Wednesday?
You go away for a bit and come back and try to find your old pals, and they're all gone: Ike's in Arizona,
Mike's in a sanatorium, Spike's in jail, and nobody seems to know where the rest of them have got to.
The ruler of the district was therefore the Democratic boss, a little Irishman named
Mike Scully.
"For the love of
Mike," Daughtry pleaded, all of stunned belligerence gone from him in his state of stunned conviction that the dread disease possessed him.
"Sure,
Mike," responded his companion in tones of conviction.
He thought I had been kind to him, and said to a fellow-student of mine, 'Tell the Doctor I lave him me bones, for I've nothing else in the wide world, and I'll nos be wanting 'em at all, at all, when the great pain hat kilt me entirely.' So that is how they came to be mine, and why I've kept them carefully, for, though only a poor, ignorant fellow,
Mike Nolan did what he could to help others, and prove his gratitude to those who tried to help him."
When
Mike Holdsworth's goat says ba-a-a, it's all right--it 'ud be unnatural for it to make any other noise."
I've managed to save something every year, and that with helping my three sisters now and then, and tiding poor Cousin
Mike over bad seasons.
I don't think I'd begin with
Mike Scanlan or his gang if I were you."
how iver did I come forninst this say iv wather, just crapin in quiet afther a bit iv sthroll wid
Mike Mahoney, me own b'y, that 's to marry me intirely, come Saint Patrick's day nixt.' "We laughed so we could hardly fish the poor thing up, or listen while she explained that she had slipped out of her window for a word with
Mike, and found it fastened when she wanted to come back, so she had sat on the roof, trying to discover the cause of this mysterious barring out, till she was tired, when she prowled round the house till she found a cellar window unfastened, after all our care, and got in quite cleverly, she thought; but the tub was a new arrangement which she knew nothing about; and when she fell into the 'say,' she was bewildered and could only howl.
Sam and Andy ran and shouted,--dogs barked here and there,--and
Mike, Mose, Mandy, Fanny, and all the smaller specimens on the place, both male and female, raced, clapped hands, whooped, and shouted, with outrageous officiousness and untiring zeal.