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Rooney up in my arms tenderly, as I would a bould child she screeching and screeching like mad: whereupon her jock caught on the chair, pocket-hole or something, and give one rent from head to fut and that was the tattering of the jock.
"If he were, he would not be in his present abode," replied the lady. "And pray, miss beg pardon again," said Dandy, with the best bow and scrape he could manage; "pray, miss, might I be so bould as to ask where that is?" Mrs. Scarman looked at her mother. "Mamma," said she, "but, bless me! what is the matter? you are in tears."
Instead of pulling, he simply turned around, tangling up and breaking the harness, and began to kick up the black prairie dirt with both hind hoofs. "Oh, the villain!" spluttered Rosy Delaney, who received the first installment of dirt full in her eyes and mouth. "Moike Delaney, ye made him do that a-purpose!" and she shook her fist at her husband. "Ye bould, bad mon!"
''Tis not for me to argue, sez I, 'fwhatever ye are, Mister Dearsley, but, by my hand, I'll take away the temptation for you that lies in that sedan-chair. 'You will have to fight me for ut, sez he, 'for well I know you will never dare make report to any one. 'Fight I will, sez I, 'but not this day, for I'm rejuced for want av nourishment. 'Ye're an ould bould hand, sez he, sizin' me up an' down; 'an' a jool av a fight we will have.
"I cannot comprehend him," she added to the lady of the mansion. "Arrah, maybe I'd make bould to take up the manners from you fwhor a while, my lady, Plase yer haner?" said Phil, addressing the latter. "I do not properly understand you," she replied, "speak plainer."
"I couldn't for the life o' me help it," she explained as they crowded round her. "When I had the door opened who did I see but himself" designating Brian "with his impident arm round Elleney's waist the bould little scut!" "Sure, I didn't ax him to put it there," protested Elleney, beginning to cry; "I didn't rightly know what he was doin'."
Ortheris wriggled with suppressed emotion. "I thought ye wud see the reasonableness av ut," said Mulvaney. "I make bould to say as much to the man before. He was for a direct front attack fut, horse, an' guns an' all for nothin', seein' that I had no thransport to convey the machine away.
'Mickey jew'l, the baby, who is only four, but 'who can handle a stick as bould as a man, is generally clad in a ragged skirt, slit every few inches from waist to hem, so that it resembles a cotton fringe.
'I therefore move ye, Mr. Prisident, that it is th' sinse iv this house, if anny such there be, that Tay Pay O'Connor is a greater man thin Lord Salisberry, he says. "Now where's Hinnery? Where's th' bould Fenian? Where's th' moonlighter? Where's th' pikeman?
"Why, Doctor Doctor Finucane," cried I, "is this possible? were you really the inside in the mail last night." "Devil a doubt of it, Mr. Lorrequer; and may I make bould to ask, were you the outside?" "Then what, may I beg to know, did you mean by your damned story about Barney Doyle, and the hydrophobia, and Cusack Rooney's thumb eh?"
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