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'An' what is it? sez I. 'Politics! sez he, with a knowin' grin. 'Politics is it? I asks, all innocent as a baby. 'That's what I'm doin', sez he. 'An' I want to tell ye the Irish are wastin' their time worryin their heads over their own country when here's a great foine beautiful rich one over here just ripe, an' waitin' to be plucked.
A Roosian sabre claved the shoulder and neck of me, an' down I wint, and over me trampled a squadron of Roosian harses, an' I stopped thinkin'. Aw, so aisy, so aisy, I slipped away out av the fight! The shriekin' and roarin' kept dwindlin' and dwindlin', and I dropped all into a foine shlape, so quiet, so aisy.
"How you know so much 'bout him?" asked Red Ben, a heavy frown on his face. "It's a long shtory, an' Oi'll not tell ye the whole av it. Oi wur paid to hilp do him a bad turn, an' Oi troied to bate th' head off him. It's a foine lickin' Oi got. Afther thot he saved me loife whin a mad buck had me down an' wur about cuttin' me to pieces wid his hoofs.
That big good-fur-nothin' man o' hern has gone along and deserted of her an' broke the darlint's heart, so 'e 'as an' the end uv it all will be that she'll be afther drownin' 'erself in the canal beyant wan uv these foine nights. "All through the morning I searched the place for her, but not a trace could I find.
I tipped the rosy, and it tripped on me. What measure I used to take around the bread-basket!" "The top of the foine midnight to you!" said Richard O'Gorman. "I'm here, my lords and gentle folk, to find a portion of my appetite. It was not so when I could lead a revolution in a cabbage garden."
An' the most of thim once foine Irish gintlemen, bad luck to the loikes of thim!" Mrs.
Oh, philosophy is a foine study! I don't know anything about it, but it's a foine study! Before I kirn over I attended an important meetin' of philosophers in Dublin, and the discussin' and talkin' you'd hear there about the world 'ud warm the very heart of Socrates or Aristotle himself.
The old man hobbled to the side of the bunk and looked intently into the face of the sleeper, and, stooping, held his ear close to the man's heart. With a satisfied nod he turned to the girl, who stood close by his side. "He's shlaypin' foine," he said, and the little red-rimmed eyes looked straight into the eyes of blue.
O'Flaherty comes in widow wiping her eyes and kind of moaning. Unhandkerchiefs one eye, bats it around tearfully over the stock; says "And fhat might ye ask for that wan?" "Thirty-nine dollars, madam," says I. "It 's a foine big price, sure, but Pat shall be buried like a gintleman, as he was, if I have to work me fingers off for it. I'll have that wan, sor."
Steward," he added in a louder key, "come, look alive here and git the cuddy to rights in shipshape fashion! By the powers, but the skipper'd be in a foine rage if he saw it all mops and brooms like this! Bear a hand, man, and be smart, and I'll send the carpenter to help you as soon as the watch is relayed."
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