Faith, then, and if he were here, I'd buy a bottle of holy water, and sprinkle it over the little hathen.

I suspict he'd fly straight up the chimney, when it touched him." "My opinion of you, Tim Kelly," the corporal, who was a grave Scotchman, said; "is that you're just a fule.

Your master is a brave young gentleman, and is a deal more sensible than most of them, who spend all their time in drinking wine and playing cards.

A knowledge of the language is most useful.

What would you do, yourself, if you were to marry a native woman, and couldn't speak to her afterwards." "The saints defind us!" Tim exclaimed; "and what put such an idea in yer head, Corporal?
It's nayther more nor less than an insult to suppose that I, a dacent boy, and brought up under the teaching of Father O'Shea, should marry a hathen black woman; and if you weren't my suparior officer, corporal, I'd tach ye better manners." Fortunately, at this moment Charlie's voice was heard, shouting for his servant; and Tim was therefore saved from the breach of the peace, which his indignation showed that he meditated.
December passed quietly; and then, in January, 1752, an insurrection planned by Dupleix broke out.