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"I think, father, that upon considerating the consequence to which I am now entitled, and the degree of respectability which, in my own person in propria persona I communicate to the vulgarians with whom I am connected I call them vulgarians from no derogatory motive; but you will concede yourself, that they are ignorant of the larned languages, an' consequently, though dacent enough, still, in reference to Latin and Greek, but vulgarians.
S. C. Hall's "Sketches of Irish Character,"* furnishes an admirable illustration of the results of a want of independence of character: * See Frontispiece. "Shane Thurlough, 'as dacent a boy, and Shane's wife, as 'clane-skinned a girl, as any in the world.
Things went on quietly enough at the farm, until one day Biddy struck not for wages, but for help. She could not bear to see the young ladies do the work they were compelled to do, and yet it was more than she could do herself. The captain inquired whether she would object to a black help. "Sure not, yer honour, if she kapes a dacent tongue in her mouth," answered Biddy.
An' this," she added, indicating her spouse with a jerk of her thumb, "is Timothy Fitzpatrick, me husband, a dacent man in his way. Timothy, where's yer manners? Shtand up an' do yer duty." Tim struggled to his feet, embarrassed with the burden of Paulina's baby, and pulled his forelock.
It wouldn't be dacent for her to say to England: ""It is in a hole you are, at present, wid your hands full; and so I am going to take the opportunity of pitching into you." "'So she begins by stipping forward as the dear friend of both parties; and she says: ""What are you breaking each other's heads for, boys? Make up your quarrel, and shake hands."
"Troth, Frank, wid the noise an' dancin', an' me bem' dark," replied Barny, shrewdly, "I can't take on me to say. For all you spake agin him, the sorra one of him but's a clane, dacent, spirited boy, as there is widin a great ways of him. Here's all your, healths! Faix, 'girls, you'll all sleep sound." "Well," said Mrs. M'Kenna, "the knowledge of that Darby More is unknowable!
I know as you was allays fond on him, an' I hope the young man 'll do well. I've often said to Samson as it was all rubbidge, a-keepin' up a old quarrel like that, as keeps two dacent fam'lys at daggers drawn. Theer, theer, let Julia get you a cup o' tay, an' let's talk o' somethin' cheerful. 'I'll go and send it in to you, said Julia.
Mistress Pettit gave an account of their neighborhood concerns for some time previous. And then whin she wint off a-begging as no dacent woman would, bekase I pitied the childer, I tould Mrs. Wheelwright, says I, that they might stay with me till ye come back yourself and may-be ye'll come the sooner, Mrs. Wheelwright, says I. And come she wouldn't by no manes, but was out all night sometimes."
'Well, it was this way, I married a dacent girl from the North, and all went well with us until her mother came along, and she had the divil's own tongue, and nothing could get her out of the house. I would say "the North has fine air, would not a change back there get you your health?" 'To which the old Biddy would reply: "Where would I live except with my only daughter and her husband?"
"If Dewey chooses to hire him, what is it to us?" "I ain't goin' to demane myself by workin' wid a yeller haythen." "Nobody has asked you to do it. If anybody is demeaning himself it is Dick Dewey, and he has a right to if he wants to." "If he wants to hire anybody, let him hire a dacent Christian." "Like you, O'Reilly?" "I don't want to work for anybody. I work for myself.