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"Troth, and you may well wonder, Pat; but we have that to support us, that you, or any one like you, know nothing about inward support, Pat inward support." "Only for that, Father Ned," said Shane Fadh, "I suppose you could never get through with it." "Very right, Shane very right: only for it, we never could do. What the dickens is keeping this girl with the eggs? why she might be at Mr.
"Right enough, Tom," observed Shane Fadh "sure most of the matches are planned at them, and, I may say, most of the runaways, too poor, young, foolish crathurs, going off, and getting themselves married; then bringing small, helpless families upon their hands, without money or manes to begin the world with, and afterwards likely to eat one another out of the face for their folly; however, there's no putting ould heads upon young shoulders, and I doubt, except the wakes are stopped altogether, that it'll be the ould case still."
Then came old M'Kinny, poacher and horse-jockey; little, squeaking, thin-faced Alick M'Kinley, a facetious farmer of substance; and Shane Fadh, who handed down, traditions and fairy tales.
"The friar stood while my father was speaking, with a pleasant, contented face upon him, only a little roguish and droll. "'Hah! Shane Fadh, says he, smiling dryly at me, 'you did them all, I see. You have her there, the flower of the parish, blooming beside you; but I knew as much six months ago, ever since I saw you bid her good-night at the hawthorn. Who looked back so often, Mary, eh?
"Come, Nancy," says Andy Morrow, "replenish again for us all, with a double measure for Shane Fadh because he well desarves it." "Why, Shane," observed Alick, "you must have a terrible memory of your own, or you couldn't tell it all so exact." "There's not a man in the four provinces has sich a memory," replied Shane. "I never hard that story yet, but I could repate it in fifty years afterwards.
Now, above all nights in the year, who should be dead but my own full cousin, Denis Fadh God be good to him! and I, and Jack, and Dan, his brothers, while bringing; home whiskey for the wake and berrin, met them on the road.
Well, in a short time I was down; and my goodness! such a hullabaloo of crying as there was in a minute's time! 'Oh, Shane Fadh Shane Fadh, acushla machree! says my poor mother in Irish, 'you're going to break up the ring about your father's hearth and mine going to lave us, avourneen, for ever, and we to hear your light foot and sweet voice, morning, noon, and night, no more!
Well, throth, it's no wonder that Ireland's full of people; for I believe they do nothing but coort from the time they're the hoith of my leg. I dunno is it true, as I hear Captain Sloethern's steward say, that the Englishwomen are so fond of Irishmen?" "To be sure it is," said Shane Fadh; "don't I remimber myself, when Mr.
Shane Fadh proceeded: "The ould Square, as I was tellin yez, cried to find himself an' the poor baste so dissolute; but when he had gone a bit from the fellow, he comes back to the vagabone 'Now, says he, 'mind my words if you happen to live afther me, you need never expect a night's pace; for I here make a serous an' solemn vow, that as long as my property's in your possession, or in any of your seed, breed, or gineration's, I'll never give over hauntin' you an' them, till you'll rue to the back-bone your dishonesty an' chathery to me an' this poor baste, that hasn't a shoe to his foot.
Shane Fadh now took courage to repeat the story of old Squire Graham and his horse with the loose shoe; informing the stranger, at the same time, of the singular likeness which he bore to the subject of the story, both in face and size, and dwelling upon the remarkable coincidence in the time and manner of his approach.
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