"They're expicting the one from King George that ye were looking fur, but it won't be in until the next steamer."
CHAPTER IV
A Loan to Captain Landon
The elder Murphy looked at his son with a quizzical expression and then glanced at the hat which had been hung on a peg behind the door.
"And where did ye get that?"
"Traded me owld one for it, but I had to go through a foight before the ither chap would give his consint."
The father's face brightened.
"So ye've been in anither foight, have ye, and only well landed in Ameriky."
"I niver had a foiner one," replied the son, still standing in the open door which led to the kitchen; "it makes me heart glad when I think of the same."