It is--ahem! always the Other
Side."
"And why the divel haven't we a Ring too? And ain't I payin' ye five
hundred dollars,--and the divel of Ring ye have, at all, at all? Fwhot
am I payin' ye fur, eh?"
"That a judicious expenditure of money," began Mr. Wood, "outside of
actual disbursements, may not be of infinite service to you I am not
prepared to deny,--but--"
"Look ye, Mr. Sappy Wood, it's the 'appale' I want, and the grant I'll
have, more betoken as the old woman's har-rut and me own is set on it
entoirely. Get me the land and I'll give ye the half of it,--and it's a
bargain!"
"But my dear sir, there are some rules in our profession,--technical
though they may be--"
"The divel fly away wid yer profession. Sure is it better nor me own?
If I've risked me provisions and me whisky, that cost me solid goold in
Frisco, on that thafe Garcia's claim, bedad! the loikes of ye can risk
yer law."
"Well," said Wood, with an awkward smile, "I suppose that a deed for one
half, on the consideration of friendship, my dear sir, and a dollar in
hand paid by me, might be reconcilable.
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