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Didn't you say, you war coming out, that if it was the devil, you'd disparse him?" "You had betther not be mintioning his name, you omadhaun," replied the other; "if I was your age, and hadn't a wife and childre on my hands, it's myself that would trust in God, and go down manfully; but the people are hen-hearted now, besides what they used to be in my time."
'Clancy, says th' chief, 'ye betther go over an' get a dhrink. He did so, Jawn. I heerd it. An' Clancy was that proud! "Whin th' Hogan flats on Halsted Sthreet took fire, they got all th' people out but wan; an' she was a woman asleep on th' fourth flure. 'Who'll go up? says Bill Musham. 'Sure, sir, says Clancy, 'I'll go'; an' up he wint.
She's betther, and near well, or the docthors wouldn't be for lettin' her out o' hospital, and faith, her aunt, me sisther Delia, will look afther her for a bit until I find it convaynient to lave; shure Mike himself will write to Eily and tell her I'm coming; that will cheer her heart up, the poor sowl." "Maybe ye are right, Mrs. Joyce." Dermot said no more, but turned slowly away.
"Ye'd betther come sharp, sharp, or I'll know the rayson why," growled Tim Rooney, however, before he could say any more a little dark man with black crinkly hair like a negro's emerged into the light, looking by no means amiable at being disturbed by the boatswain's hail. "What you want hey?" he asked angrily. "I got my bizness to do in pantry, 'fore ze cap'in coom aboard."
"I think," said his father, "he will be the betther of a little drop of the poteen made into punch, an' for that matter we can all take a sup of it; as there's no one here but ourselves, we will have it snug an' comfortable." Nothing resembles an April day more than the general disposition of the Irish people.
'Ye'd betther have a care how ye answer that question, me boy, says th' pris'ner, carelessly jingling th' loose change in his pocket. 'Sane? says th' expert. 'Well, I shud think he was. Why, I can hardly imagine how he stayed feather-headed long enough to take th' villan's joolry. Sane, says ye?
"Sure, an' if Oi've got to go to say ag'in an' can't look afther the baiste mesilf, it's some 'un ilse Oi'll be afther givin' him to thet'll say to him aven betther nor mesilf!" "And who's that?" inquired the boatswain, with a laugh, noticing a flush come over Mick's face. "You know I'm interested in the monkey and have a sort of right to ask."
''Tis betther thin thravelin' beat, says th' bull. 'What's th' la-ad's name that's holdin' it now? says Cousin George. 'Mack, says th' cop. 'Irish? says George. 'Cross, says th' elbow. 'Where fr'm? says George. 'Ohio, says the peeler. 'Where's that? says George. 'I dinnaw, says th' bull. An' they parted th' best iv frinds."
But to tell the blessed truth, I was thinking av' you too; and that you'd be happier and asier, let alone betther an' more respecthable, as an honest man's wife, as I'd make you, than being mewed up there in dread of your life, never daring to open your mouth to a Christian, for fear of your own brother, who niver did, nor niver will lift a hand to sarve you, though he wasn't backward to lift it to sthrike you, woman and sisther though you were.
"What brings you here?" was the question. "Throth, thin, and I think I might betther ax what brings you here, right in the way o' my nor-aist coorse." "Where do you come from?" "From Kinsale; and you didn't come from a betther place, I go bail." "Where are you bound to?" "To Fingal." "Fingal, where's Fingal?" "Why then, ain't you ashamed o' yourself an' not to know where Fingal is?"
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