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At last, I gave in, and swung him over. He kissed the stone, and then called to me to pull him up. 'Wait a bit, my man, says I, 'you gave me only a shilling for letting you down; it's a dale harder job to pull you up. I must have half a crown for that same. With that, he began to swear and call me a chate, and threaten me with the police.
Come down by the fire now." So Phil went down, and Bridget, on hospitable thoughts intent, drew her only rocking-chair near the stove, and forced Phil to sit down in it. Then she told him, with evident enjoyment, of the trick which Pietro had tried to play on her, and how he had failed. "He couldn't chate me, the haythen!" she concluded. "I was too smart for the likes of him, anyhow.
So, putting his head through the hole, he called down to the colonel: 'Hillo, neighbour! says he. The colonel looked up, and grew as white as a sheet, when he seen he was found out, and the red eyes starin' down at him through the hole. 'Musha, bad luck to your impudence! says Owld Nick: 'it is sthrivin' to chate me you are, says he, 'you villain!
"No, you don't," said her dutiful son. "'Tain't none of yours. It's mine." "The kays is mine," said his mother, "and I'll kape 'em." "Give 'em here," said Jim, finding a compromise necessary, "and I'll give you fifty cents out of what I get" "That's the way to talk, darlint," said his mother, approvingly. "You wouldn't have the heart to chate your ould mother out of her share?"
October 14, 1877, was memorable for the most terrific south-west gale that happened in all the years I passed at Aldington; thirteen trees, mostly old apple trees and elms, were blown down, including the splendid veteran "Chate boy" pear tree at Blackminster, an exceedingly sad and irreparable loss.
The pack of cards which that old ruffian has in his hand are my cards, which he has taken from me, in order to chate with.
Jim, who was also a confederate, but had agreed to accept twenty-five cents in full for services rendered, promptly answered: "Shure, Mike's right. It was a prize he drew." "You want to chate me!" said Teddy, angrily. "What have you been doin' all the mornin'?" demanded Mike. "You're the chap to talk about chatin', ain't you?"
In the New Forest there is a perry pear similar to the Chate Boy, called Choke Dog, which in its natural state, is quite as rough on the palate as the former, but it differs in colour and is not the same sort.
McBride you see it was not for the fortune. Honor. Oh! Phil, didn't I tell you her heart was right? Catty. We will work hard cheer up, McBrides. Now the Roonies and McBrides has joined, you'll see we'll defy the world and O'Blaney, the chate of chates. Honor. Randal's own mother! Catty. Ay, now, we are all one family now pull together. Don't be cast down, Phil dear.
Arrah! don't play with him, your Holiness, for he'll only chate ye there are dirty marks upon the cards which bear the trumps, put there in order to know them by; and the ould thaif in daling out will give himself all the good cards, and chate ye of the last farthing in your pocket; so let them be taken from him, your Holiness, and given back to me; and order him to lave the room, and then, if your Holiness be for an honest game, don't think I am the boy to baulk ye.
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