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According to tradition, the mighty Giant, Fin Mac Cual, was musical in his taste, and used to give himself "a little innocent divarsion" here, after his hard labors in building the Causeway. Even now, when the sea roars, and the deep thunder rolls along the rocky coast, they say "the giant is playing on his big stone organ under the cliff."
There's an ould saying in Connaught, 'It's not fair for one to fall upon twenty. Sergeant Haggarty says that I'll see none of the divarsion at all." "I don't well understand " "He does be telling me that, as I'm only your footboy, he'll send me away to the rear, where there's nothing but wounded and wagons and women."
He was off to every bit of 'divarsion' in the country, and when there were big races at a distance Mick generally took the road a day beforehand, sleeping out in the soft spring night if it was dry weather, trusting to a convenient haystack or barn if it wasn't. He was known so widely that at every farmhouse along the road he was sure of a bite.
"'Is it truth yer telling? says my father. "'Sorra word o' lie in it! Myself had two-and-fourpence of their notes. "'And so they're broke, says my father, 'and nothing left? "'Not a brass farden. "'And what am I staying here for, I wonder, if there's nothing to guard? "'Faix, if it isn't for the pride of the thing "'Oh, sorra taste! "'Well, may be for divarsion. "'Nor that either.
No, not of danger; but that we shall have what you may call a brisk push of it, is probable; and it may happen, a brush, a scrimmage, or some such divarsion, but always where covers are good, and ammunition abundant."
That track wasn't made there more nor two hours ago, and it's pretty sartin the one that made it ain't fur away at this time. It happens it leads to the north'ard, and it'll be a little divarsion to foller it, minding at the same time that there's an Injin in it." For the present the trapper was on a trail, and he kept it with the skill and certainty of a hound.
He has received precise instructions as to keeping near us, and your duties will be confined to keeping guard over the prisoners, and rendering such assistance to the sailors as they may require." "I understand, Major; but I suppose that in case you are attacked we may take a share in any divarsion that is going on?"
Me father hed consitherable mains, so he hed; an' A har'ly ivver done a han's turn, furbye divarsion, to A come out here. However, you will now understand why I made him repeat his topographical notes half a dozen times before I let him go. Just at sunset I struck the partly-plain patch of sixty or eighty acres, where the gilgie ought to be.
By the same token, it was the story of Jim Soolivan and his ould goat he was tellin' an' a plisant story it is an' there was so much divarsion in it, that it was enough to waken a dormouse, let alone to pervint a Christian goin' asleep.
"Bite on that, Peg Barney," I sez; "the night is settin' frosty, an' you'll be wantin' divarsion before the mornin'. But for the Rig'lations you'd be bitin' on a bullet now at the thriangles, Peg Barney," sez I. 'All the draf' was out av their tents watchin' Barney bein' pegged. "'Tis agin the Rig'lations!
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