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The gossoon was equal to emergencies; he put down his heavier burden of / goods and picked up the baby, lest it might run back to America. "God / be praised, what's this coming afther ye? " exclaimed the mother, while / Nora, weeping for joy, ran past her into the house. "Oh, God bless the / shild that I thought I 'd never see. Oh! " and she looked again at the / stranger, the breathless old man with the thorn stick, whom everybody / had left behind. "T is me brother Patsy! Oh, me heart's broke wit' / joy! " and she fell on her knees among the daisies.
"It's meself, then! " said Mr. Patrick Quin. "How are ye the day, Mary? / I always t'ought I 'd see home again, but 't was Nora enticed me now. / Johnny O'Callahan's a good son to ye; he 'd liked well to come with us, / but he gets short l'ave on the Road, and he has a fine, steady job; he / 'll see after the business, too, while we 're gone; no, I could n't let / the two childer cross the say alone. Coom now, don't be sayin' anny / more prayers; sure, we 'll be sayin' them together in the old church / coom Sunday.