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"Maybe, after this happenin', some she could name might have the wit to believe what other people tould thim, who knew bitter than to be thinkin' to feed a misfortnit crathur of an ould cow on sand and sayweed as if she was a sayl or a saygull, and it a scandal to the place to behould her foostherin' along down there wid the waves' edges slitherin' up to her nose, and she sthrivin' to graze, and the slippery stones fit to break her neck."
"If you have no exact time to depend upon, how do you catch trains?" I asked Mr. Brodigan. "Sure that's not an everyday matter, and why be foostherin' over it? But we do, four times out o' five, ma'am!" "How do you like it that fifth time when you miss it?" "Sure it's no more throuble to you to miss it the wan time than to hurry five times!
Sure it's Theresa Joyce herself. But we haven't seen her this great while, and who she has along wid her I couldn't be tellin' you. A feeble sort of crathur she looks to be, accordin' to the way she's foostherin' along."
"He might ha' fooled you for years and years, and made a laughin'-stock of you wid everybody about the place and me wid ne'er a thought of any such a thing he might so, and bad luck to him.... 'Foostherin' about and consaitin' to be doin' a fair day's work, when he's the creep of a snail on him, and the stren'th of a rat. That's what I heard Tim Reilly sayin' and I goin' home on the Saturday night.
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