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I keep er resterant, put up thar jes' fer my people, bekase thar's no show fer 'em in the other place. Come on! No time ter be los', train don't stay up thar more 'an twenty minutes." With that he led the passenger from the train. "Git up in thar," he said, pointing to a small wagon. "Got er trunk?" "No, just this bag," returned the other. "Well, let's go.
Many a time I held him in these arms, an' many a little play I made for him; an' many a time he axed me why his father didn't nurse him as I did; bekase, he used to say, 'I would rather he would nurse me than anybody else, barring my mother; and, afther him, you, Nogher."
"Wal, I ain't got none o' them autymobiles, nor yet no airship; but I've got a old nag that can do the piece in an hour or so." "Why do you want to take me home with you?" asked Marjorie, for she couldn't help a feeling that there was something wrong. "Why, bless your heart, child, bekase you're alone and forlorn and hungry and all done out.
"The Uligone, Connor, or Shuilagra, or the Trougha for, avourneen, avourneen, there must be sorrow in it, for my heart's low, and your mother's heart's in sorrow, an' she's lyin' far from us, an' her boy's not near her, an' her heart's sore, sore, and her head achin', bekase her boy's far from her, and she can't come to him!"
Ee says ee knows they're set on grabbin' the birds t'other side the estate, over beyond Mellor way ee's got wind of it an' ee's watchin' night an' day to see they don't do him no bad turn this month, bekase o' the big shoot they allus has in January. An' lor', ee do speak drefful bad o' soom folks," said Mrs. Jellison, with an amused expression. "You know some on 'em, miss, don't yer?"
"They're miserable times, Molly, at least I find them so; for I dunna how it happens, but every one's disappointment falls upon me, till they have me a'most out of house an' home throth it 'ud be no wondher I'd get hard-hearted some day wid the way I'm thrated an' robbed by every one; aye, indeed, bekase I'm good-natured, they play upon me."
'Horns, horns, goat horns! then he ups with his fingers like lightning; they must all do the same, bekase a goat has horns. Horns, horns, horse horns! he ups with them again, but the boys and girls ought not, bekase a horse has not horns; however any one that raises them then, gets a slake.
I have been savin' all I could skimp from butter, an' eggs, to get Samantha a organ; but says I to her: 'You are gettin' all I can do for you every day; there lays your poor brother 'at ain't had a finger lifted for him since he was took so sudden he was gone before I knowed he was goin'. I never can get over Henry bein' took the way he was, so I says: 'If this would be a nice thing to have for Henry's grave, and the neighbours are goin' to have them for theirn, looks to me like some of the organ money will have to go, an' we'll make it up later. I don't 'low for Henry to be slighted bekase he rid himself to death trying to make a president out of his pa's gin'ral."
"Why, sir," he replied, "bekase it's given out on all hands that there's no end to your larnin' that it's wondherful the books you wrote and as for your preachin', that it 'ud make one think themselves in heaven, hell, or purgatory, accordin as you wished."
"'In troth, says Jemmy Finigan, 'and begging your Reverence's pardon, the sorra cow you'll sell this bout, any how, on account of me or my childhre, bekase I'll lay down on the nail what'll clear you wid the bishop; and in the name of goodness, as the day is fixed and all, let the crathurs not be disappointed.
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