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But there are still a few riprisintatives iv th' older memberships iv th' stock exchange who cannot lave th' familyar scenes, an' I like to dhrop in on these pathricyans an' gossip iv days that ar-re no more. Faith, there's hardly a place that I don't spind me summers. If I don't like a place I can move. I sail me yacht into sthrange harbors. I take me private car wheriver I want to go.
He soon caught some fish, and I got hold of a sheep which came up to the door; and if there had only been a dhrop of the cratur', we should have lived like princes. One thing there was which the Indians had not carried off, and that was a wheel-barrow. When Klitz saw it, 'We will go to California! says he.
'Hogan, he says, 'I'll go into th' battle with a prayer book in wan hand an' a soord in th' other, he says; 'an' if th' wurruk calls f'r two hands, 'tis not th' soord I'll dhrop, he says. 'Don't ye believe in prayer? says Hogan. 'I do, says th' good man; 'but, he says, 'a healthy person ought, he says, 'to be ashamed, he says, 'to ask f'r help in a fight, he says."
Troth, I left the wife frettin' wild, the crathur, thinkin' I'd get me death; but what else could I do? And now I must be steppin' on again. Och no, thank you, lad, if I took a dhrop of spirits, I'd be choked wid coughin'. But you might just set me on the right road." "I'll go along wid him," said Dan, aside to his grandfather, "and if I can bring him, or the both of them, back here, I will.
'If annything happens to this man, th' case is li'ble to be taken up be th' ex-prisidents' association; an' they're num'rous enough to make throuble f'r us, he says. 'But, he says, 'I'll do what I can f'r ye, me ol' frind, he says. 'Give us th' best ye have, says Jools; 'an', if ye've nawthin' to do afther ye close up, ye might dhrop in, he says, 'an' have a manifesto with us, he says.
Shamus rallied his prudence. "An', sure, sorrow a thing is the matter wid me, only the dhrop, I believe, made me do it, as it ever and always does, good luck to it for the same. Only it's the laste bit in the world quare to me how you'd have the dhrame about your own country, that you didn't see for so many years, sir for twenty long years, I think you said, sir?"
"Why, thin, Paddy, is it strivin' to outdo me you are? Faiks, avourneen, you never seen that day, any way," the old woman would exclaim, exerting all her vigor. "Didn't I? Sowl, I'll sober you before I lave the flure, for all that," her husband would reply. "An' do you forget," she would rejoin, "that the M'Carthy dhrop is in me; ay, an' it's to the good still."
Shure, I seen it meself whin I wint to the Curragh races wid Barney Maloney; an' by the same token, 'twas Barney axplained it to me. Didn't the divil take his bite, an' then didn't he dhrop it on the plain out there forninst ye, the big lump they call the rock iv Cashel? Av coorse he did. An' if the divil himself found Ireland too hard a nut to crack, how can the English expect to manage us?
Paddy Dunn, sir, sure enough; but, indeed, I'm the next thing to my own ghost, sir, now God help me!" "What, and for whom are you cooking?" "Jist the smallest dhrop in life, sir, o' gruel, to keep the sowl in that lonely crathur, sir, the poor scholar." "Pray how long is it since you have eaten anything yourself?" The tears burst from the eyes of the miserable creature as he replied
I was no light weight mysilf, an' my men were mortial anxious to dhrop me under a great big archway promiscuously ornamented wid the most improper carvin's an' cuttin's I iver saw. Begad! they made me blush like a like a Maharanee. 'The temple of Prithi-Devi, I murmured, remembering the monstrous horrors of that sculptured archway at Benares. 'Pretty Devilskins, savin' your presence, sorr!
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