Don't tie a knot with
your tongue that you can't unravel with your teeth. Be quiet, now;
I didn't speak to raise the devil and draw on a tempest--only let us
have a glass of punch, till Charley and I drink success to Harry."
The next day Mrs. Lindsay ordered the car, and proceeded to pay her
intended visit to the Goodwins. She had arrived pretty near the house,
when two of Goodwin's men, who were driving his cows to a grazing field
on the other side of the road by which she was approaching, having
noticed and recognized her, immediately turned them back and drove them
into a paddock enclosed by trees, where they were completely out of her
sight.
"Devil blow her, east and west!" said one of them. "What brings her
across us now that we have the cattle wid us? and doesn't all the world
know that she'd lave them sick and sore wid one glance of her unlucky
eye. I hope in God she didn't see them, the thief o' the devil that she
is."
"She can't see them now, the cratures," replied the other; "and may the
devil knock the light out of her eyes at any rate," he added, "for sure,
they say it's the light of hell that's in them.
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