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The hugging and kissing to which Katie was subjected when she was carried up to the inn, near the boat-slip on the Surrey side of the river, may be imagined; as may also the faces she made at the wineglassful of stiff brandy and water which she was desired to drink.
When we had all come out of the graveyard, and two men had rebuilt the hole in the wall through which the coffin had been carried in, we walked back to the village, talking of anything, and joking of anything, as if merely coming from the boat-slip, or the pier. One man told me of the poteen drinking that takes place at some funerals.
The boat-slip at the corner next the south island is extremely useful in calm weather, but it is exposed to a heavy roll from the south, and is so narrow that the curaghs run some danger of missing it in the tumult of the surf.
Besides, you remember the night I made thirteen speeches on the Naval Estimates the Government wanted a little matter of twenty millions and you met me in the Lobby and told me you wished to go to bed, and asked me what I really wanted, and I am always reasonable I said I would pass the whole Naval Programme if I got the Government to give them a boat-slip at Ballyduck.
That is my story. When the steamer is expected I rarely fail to visit the boat-slip, as the men usually collect when she is in the offing, and lie arguing among their curaghs till she has made her visit to the south island, and is seen coming towards us. This morning I had a long talk with an old man who was rejoicing over the improvement he had seen here during the last ten or fifteen years.
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