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"Arrah put your backs into it, for we're bound to save ivery scrap of the ould vessel we can come across, in order sure to tow it ashore!"
Donahue?" says the Judge, inquiringly. "Arrah, good-morning, yer 'onher! Shure, it's only the sixth time these three weeks. Doesn't meself like to see yer smiling face, onyhow!" Here Mrs. Donahue commences complimenting the Judge in one breath, and laying no end of charges at the door of the very diminutive and harmless Mister Donahue in the next.
"I trust that the savages will not venture to attack us," said James; "only in the last extremity could I feel justified in firing at them." "Arrah! it's but little of that sort of treatment they have received since the white man first put his foot on their shores," observed Larry. "I've heard tell of their being shot down by scores at a time, like vermin.
"Thrue for you, indeed, your honor," said Barny, in his most insinuating tone; "but whin will you be at the ind o' your voyage, Captain jewel?" "I daresay in about three months," said the captain. "O Holy Mother!" ejaculated Barny; "three months! arrah, it's jokin' you are, Captain dear, and only want to freken me." "How should I frighten you?" asked the captain.
We agreed, however, that, except in rainy weather, the matting was likely to prove the more useful article. We were returning from our indiarubber manufactory the next day, when we saw an object moving among the boughs of a tree at no great distance from us. Tim ran forward to ascertain what it was. "Arrah now, if it's not a live alligator, I don't know what it is," he exclaimed.
"Arrah, thin, it isn't a bad character you'd be afther givin' your own niece," Beth blarneyed; and then she turned up her naughty eyes to the ceiling and chanted softly: "What will Jimmie-wimmie give his duckie-dearie to be good? A nice sweet kiss!" Uncle James's big white face became suddenly empurpled. "Gracious! he's swallowed wrong," Lady Benyon exclaimed in alarm. "Drink something.
Why, we'll never be able to manage it." "Arrah, why, woman; what do they want but their skinful to eat and dhrink, and I'm sure we're able to allow them that, any way?" "Arrah, bad manners to me, but you're enough to vex a saint 'their skinful to eat and dhrink! you common crathur you, to speak that way of the clargy, as if it was ourselves or the laborers you war spaking of."
"Faix, an' you're right, maybe; but if it's strivin' again me you are, you may give it over: I tell you, I'll have more money made afore this time twelvemonth than you will." "Arrah, is it jokin' you are? More money? Would you advise me to take Harry's land? Tell me that first, you phanix, an' thin I'm your man!" "Faix, take your own coorse, avourneen.
"'Ate a gridiron! says I. 'Och, in throth, I'm not such a gommoch all out as that, anyhow. But, sure, if we had a gridiron we could dress a beefstake, says I. "'Arrah! but where's the beefstake? says he. "'Sure, couldn't we cut a slice aff the pork? says I. "'By gor, I never thought o' that, says the captain. 'You're a clever fellow, Paddy, says he, laughin'.
"Arrah, honey! you're an Irishman, whoever you are, and have spoke your mind in character." Sir John Bull was vexed that the piece of wit which he had aimed at the contractor had recoiled upon himself. "It is always, as my countryman observed, by having too much wit that I blunder. The deuce take me if I sport a single bon mot more this night.
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