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"I never smoke," says the Pope, "but I haven't the least objection to the smell of the tobaccay." "O, you had betther take a dhraw," says his Riv'rence, "it'll relish the dhrink, that 'ud be too luscious entirely, widout something to flavor it." "I had thoughts," said the Pope, wid the laste sign ov a hiccup on him, "ov getting up a broiled bone for the same purpose."
"And it's his honer that's welcome to 'em," said he again, as he pulled off the table-cloth with a flourish. "And why wouldn't he, and he able to folly the hounds betther nor any Englishman that iver war in these parts before, anyways so Mick says!" Now Mick was the huntsman, and this little tale of eulogy from Larry went far towards easing my grief.
"Well, and what was he the betther o' having more prate than a Scotchman?" asked the other. "Why," answered Kelly's friend, "I think it stands to rayson that the man that done out the Scotch steward ought to know somethin' more about farmin' than Mikee Coghlan." "Augh! don't talk to me about knowing," said the other, rather contemptuously.
"But they said I'd niver lick anybody," persisted Patsy. "An' that's a blank lie, isn't it, dad?" The man's face grew black with wrath. He poured out fierce oaths. "Let me catch thim. Oi'll break their backs, the blank, blank little cowards! Niver ye heed thim. Ye'll be a betther man thin any av thim, Patsy avick, an' that ye will. An' they'll all be standin' bare-headed afore ye some day.
For five minutes he beat the bedclothes; then his spirits rose and, like the mercurial Celt that he was, he chanted blithely a verse from "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched": "'Though, sure 'tis the best way to die, Oh, the divil a betther a-livin'! For sure whin the gallows is high, Your journey is shorter to heaven; But what harasses Larry the most, An' makes his poor sowl melancholy, Is to think av the time whin his ghost Will come in a sheet to sweet Molly!
If what I heard is thrue that that poor boy never was himself since the girl died, it was a mercy for God to take him; and afther all He is a betther judge of what's fit for us than we ourselves. Bounce, now, Mr. Dalton; you have little time to lose. I want you to come wid me to the agent, Mr. Travers.
Now she must go at once. Even if he were to repent of his blind rage and ask her forgiveness, she felt that there was an impassable gulf between them. During the confusion that followed, Number Two, feeling hungry, went down with Biddy to lunch. "It's about the last ov it here, Sirr," said the girl, "an' we may as well ate what is good and drink something betther than cold wather."
"Bhoys," said the culprit, still shaking gently, "whin I've done my tale you may cry if you like, an' little Orth'ris here can thrample my inside out. Ha' done an' listen. My performinces have been stupenjus: my luck has been the blessed luck av the British Army an' there's no betther than that. I went out dhrunk an' dhrinkin' in the palanquin, and I have come back a pink god.
Give me your hand, Shane Fadh, and you, Mary may goodness grant you pace and happiness every night and day you both rise out of your beds. I made that coat your husband has on his back beside you and a, betther fit was never made; but I didn't think it would come to my turn to have my dinner cast up this a-way, as if I was aiting it for charity.
A man a safe man, that'll do what he's told to do will be at Ford's heels till this thing do be settled. And now for yourself: 'tis betther that ye kape dark. Four of us know that you're in the camp no wan else need know. I've a room and a bed, and ye'll be nadin' the lasht, I'm thinking."
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