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The water just now was not strong enough to come all the way to the lagoon, but away up there "beyant" in the woods lay the source, and he'd find it in due time. There was enough in the breaker for a week, and green "cucanuts" were to be had for the climbing. Emmeline contemplated Paddy for a while as he smoked and rested his bones, then a great thought occurred to her.
It had been a matter of rivalry between the two, as to which of them would kill the first antelope; and Hal was inclined to feel a little uncomfortable at Ned's victory, especially before Patsey slyly suggested, that, ef he hadn't kilt an antichoke, he'd got a dear beyant, and that was betther than a dozen artichokes.
"Nor no father-in-law," replied Jemmy, shaking her cordially by the hand, "and whisper, darlin'," said he, putting his mouth close to her ear, and speaking so as that he might not be heard by others, "I hope to see you my daughter-in-law yet, if I could only get that boy beyant to make himself worthy of you."
"Well," says Jack, "I'm afeard ye are after gettin' poor Roseen into throuble; there's the great blow-up entirely goin' on beyant there at the house. The masther's murdherin' Roseen for the way the two of yez has been goin' on. He had her crying, the poor little girl," says Jack; "I h'ard her through the windy," says he.
"You were, then, a member of every illegal society of the time, Mr. Darby?" said the lawyer, returning to the examination. "Is it not so?" "Most of them, anyhow," was the cool reply. "You took an active part in the doings of the year '98 also?" "Throth I did, mighty active. I walked from beyant Castlecomer one day to Dublin to see a trial here. Be the same token, it was Mr.
Having satisfied his hunger, he deliberately but with the greatest simplicity of countenance filled the wallet which he carried slung across his back, with whatever he had left, observing as he did it: "Fwhy, thin, 'tis sthrange it is, that the same custom is wit us in Ireland beyant that is here: fwhor whinever a thraveller is axed in, he always brings fwhat he doesn't ate along wit him.
An' the servant that was here afore me a clean, good-natured girl she was, in throth an' got married to a blacksmith, at the cross-roads beyant tould me that the scrames, an' yells, an' howlins, and roarins the cursin' and blasphaymin' an' the laughin', that she said was worse than all an' the rattlin' of chains the Lord save us would make one think themselves more in hell than in any place upon this world.
'Jist pure wather from the spring there beyant, and then he looked round the Court, and slyly added, 'Wid jist as much whiskey as will take off the earthy taste, yer honner. He was like the temperance lecturer who preached round Galway, and was afterwards seen crushing sugar in a stiff glass of the crathur at Oughterard.
"Shut up, ye whelp of a nigger, or ye'll get a doz for yeer tricks beyant in the ship," said Dunn; and after remaining nearly an hour, arguing politics and drinking toddies, Mr. Dunn got very amiably fuddled, and was for having a good-natured quarrel with every customer that came; into the shop.
"Murdher, my lady," says Phil, raising his caubeen, and scratching his head in pretended perplexity, with his linger and thumb, "fwhat am I to say to that, ma'am, and all of yez to the fwhore? But the sarra one av me will give it agin the darlin's beyant." "But which do you think the more handsome?"
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