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"And the head groom had it from the butler and passed it on to me that the old Master of the Roscommon Hounds was ever swearin' over his third bottle, of hunt nights, when I was no more than a five-year-old and the youngsters would be fleerin' at Sir Pat over the shape of me head: "'Faith, an' it's Avenger's head ye don't like, lads, is it?
'Nay, lad, you'll noan see birk-trees like yon i' Raandhay Park. And he pointed to t' birk-trees by t' lake-side, wi' boles two foot through. "'What is it then? I asked. 'Have I coom to foreign parts? I'm a bad 'un to mell wi' foreigners. "'Nay, said Abe, 'thou's i' heaven. "'Heaven! I shouted out, an' I looked up at Abe to see if he were fleerin' at me.
"Did you find a magpie's nest in your Jerusalem artichokes or half-crowns in the hearts of your pickling cabbages?" "None o' your fleerin'," he replied. "What I'm tellin' you is t' truth, or if it isn't' truth it's a parable, and I reckon a parable's Bible truth. It were gettin' on towards back-end, and I'd bin diggin' potatoes while I were in a fair sweat wi' t' heat.
Ask yer conscience, Mr. M'Adam. An' if he was a wee aggravatin' at times, had he no reason? He'd a heavy cross to bear, had David, and yo' know best if yo' helped to ease it for him." The little man pointed to the door; but the girl paid no heed. "D'yo' think when yo' were cruel to him, jeerin' and fleerin', he never felt it, because he was too proud to show ye?
That he likit ye weel no less! Man, that sets ye up! Cornelius has not said so much for ony man these twenty year so my jest is true enough, for all 'twas said in fleerin'; ye bear your years well and the credentials of them in your face. Ye'll not be minding for an old man's daffin'?" "Sure not! I'm a great hand at the joke-play myself," said Pete.
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