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Wife "Chorp an diouol, Brian, hould your tongue, Or I'll turn you out o' the kitchen. One can't hear their own ears for you, you poor squakin' dhrone. By the crass, I'll eh? Will you whisht, now?" Farmer "Go an. Amn't I dhrawin' my pipe?" Wife "Well dhraw it; but don't dhraw me down upon you, barrin . Do you hear me? an' the sthrange people to the fore, too!
"Sally, achora," said Phelim, when he saw her in distress, "what's the fun? Where's your father?" "Oh, Phelim," she replied, bursting into tears, "long runs the fox, but he's cotch at last. My father's in gaol." Phelim's jaw dropped. "In gaol! Chorp an diouol, no!" "It's thruth, Phelim. Curse upon this Whiteboy business, I wish it never had come into the counthry at all."
"All feathalagh an' nonsense," replied Eody, who, by the way, entertained a very high opinion of his own sagacity; "no mortal could suspect that there was a plot to rob the house from what I said; but hould," he added, slapping his knee, as if he had made a discovery, "ma chorp an' dioul, but I have it all." "What is it?" said the Prophet, calmly.
Here's a comrade for yez a dacent boy that's lookin' for his larnin', the Lord enable him! Now be kind to him, an' whisper," he added, in an undertone, "don't be bringin' a blush to the gorsoon's face. Do ye hear? Ma chorp! if ye do! Now mind it. Ye know what I can do whin I'm well vexed! Go, now, an' get him somethin' to ate an' dhrink, an' let him sleep wid Barney in the feather bed."
"You won't fight?" said Meehaul, with mingled rage and scorn. "No," replied the other, "I won't fight you." A murmur of "shame" and "coward" was heard from those who had been drawn together by their quarrel. "Dher ma chorp," they exclaimed with astonishment, "but Lamh Laudher's afeard of him! the garran bane's in him, now that he finds he has met his match."
"Answer me, in the mane time," he replied; "I'll have no doubling, Granua." "Has anything vexed you, Shawn?" "Chorp an diaoul! tell me why you staid so long at the well" and as he spoke his eyes flashed with resentment and suspicion. "I didn't stay long at it." "I say you did. What kept you?" "Why, bekaise I didn't hurry myself, but took my time. I was often longer."
Rousin Redhead stood still for nearly half a minute without uttering a syllable; at length he seized Dandy by the arm, which he pressed with the gripe of Hercules, for he was a man of huge size and strength. "Chorp ad dioual, you giant, is it my arm you're goin' to break?"
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