Only an Irish Boy; Or, Andy Burke's Fortunes

ack," said Andy, as the clock i

sleep at home, And

ur hero, with a little importance. "I'

hat looks more respectable. When you have earned e

ill they co

n or twenty dollars. When you have got the

ike a gentleman wit

etbag. I've packed Andy's

h the carpetbag, and And

k struck nine, he knoc

e elder opened t

l, Andrew," she

, ma

thes?" pointing to

I'm goin' to buy some more

We want you to l

hia, who felt that it w

liant idea

we could give him s

said matter-of

ontinued Sophia, with

we ar

sister, now brought to t

se, holding his cap in one hand,

tired?" ask

, ma

you would lik

's just the sam

l show you your room. Sophia, pe

d the two chambers over them. But there was, besides, an extension behind, used as a

said Miss Priscilla. "Sophi

lainly furnished, but looked very comfortable. Andy glanced about him with a look of satisfaction. It was considerably

bed at the bottom, as

sci

ight,

've forgotten, Priscil

is t

e g

eminded me of it. Andrew,

," said And

d seen a gun fired, and always

use, we should expect you to fire at an

ny, ma'am?" aske

rse, we cannot fire guns-it woul

interrupt

at to you. Do you thi

asked Andy. "Shure, I'd

rave. I'll show

the room, and pointed out a big, unwie

ded, ma'am

t, and I hope you won't. If any robber should come," added the kind-hearted s

you say

have to say. Sophia, shal

st

reflections. He undressed himself quickly, and deposited

ad one in his hand, and now there was one at his absolute disposal. It made him feel a sense of his importance t

Andy. "I can shoot off a gun as well as anybody.

re seemed very little chance, for had not Miss Priscilla said that it had been loaded for more than a

et me go out gunning w

mind off the gun, and, after a lapse of

phia were both asleep, not

lf, for might not a burglar come that very night? Then, suppose he was unable to fire the gun, and in consequence of his ignorance, both he and the two ladies should be murdered in their

tly to the closet a

lets inside. Now," he said to himself, "suppose a big thafe was to poke his dirty head in at the winder and

osition with some difficulty and

ng his part, "'Jump down, you thafe, or

er, and instantly there was a tremendous report, the noise bein

and Andy, to his astonishment, found himself lying flat

he gun. What will the ould wimmen say? They'll think it's bloody burglars gettin' into

He had scarcely got them on when the trembling