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You must know he's not to be called Dinny or Dinis any more, but Dionnisis; he's to begin atin' wid a knife an' fork to-morrow; we must get him beef and mutton, and a tay breakfast.
"No, indeed, I will not, avick I mane Dionnisis, avourneen I'll tell them everything as you ordhered; but as to Dionnisis, I'm cock sure that poor Mave will never be able to get her ould tongue about so newfangled a piece of larnin' as that is. Well, well, this knowledge bates the world!"
When the horse was saddled, and Dionysius on his way with all due pomp to the Station, old Denis broke the matter to his wife. "Mave, achora," said,he, "I have sthrange news to tell you: sure Dionnisis is goin' to make himself a gintleman." "Sure what?" "Dionnisis, our son Dionnisis, is goin' to make himself a gintleman; he'll ate no longer widout a knife and fork."
I remimber the time my Aunt Bridget tuck the scarlet faver, she begun to rave and spake foolish in the same way." "Why, woman, if your Aunt Bridget had a faver made up of all the colors in the rainbow, I tell you I'm spakin' sinse! Our son Dionnisis proved himself a gintleman out in the garden wid me about an hour ago."
Old Denis, however, was too much engaged in the subject which lay nearest his heart to take pleasure in anything else; at least until he should hear the priest's opinion upon the posture of affairs. "What does your reverence think?" said Denis. "Behave yourself," replied the pastor. "None of your nonsense! You know what I think as well as I do myself." "But will Dionnisis pass?
The saddle that had been on the colt was strapped about him with the bridle, for both had been borrowed from a neighbor. "Dionnisis an' I must both ride the same horse," said he, "an' as we have two saddles, I must carry one of them." An altercation then ensued as to which should ride foremost.
"Well, well, avourneen, I suppose only it's right you wouldn't be axin' us; but I'm sure your poor mother will never be able to get her tongue about Dionnisis, it's so long and larned a word." "It is a larned word, no doubt; but she must persevere until she's able to masther it.
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