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The very gorsoons and girshas were sporting away among themselves, and learning one another to smoke in the dark corners. But all this, Mr. When we were gone, the ould people had more room, and they moved about on the sates we had left them. In the mane time, lashings of tobacco and snuff, cut in platefuls, and piles of fresh new pipes, were laid on the table for any one that wished to use them.
Mat Kavanagh won't budge from the Scanlon boys, even if we war to put our hands undher his feet; and small blame to him sure, you would not expect him to go against his own friends?" "Faith, the gorsoons is in a bad state," said Murphy; "but, boys where will we get a man that's up?
"Then, upon my word, if it had new side-walls, a new roof, and new gavels, too," replied Father Con, "it would look certainly a great deal the better for it; and do you intend to to get them next summer, Paddy?" "If God spares me, sir." "Are all these fine gorsoons yours, Phaddhy?" "Why, so Katty says, your Reverence," replied Phaddhy, with a good-natured laugh.
She had a trunk, which Barney Ryder, general carrier to the Island, would have lifted to his ass-cart, but the new-comer scornfully waved him away. 'Come here, you two gorsoons, she said, seizing upon young Jack Laffan and a comrade who were gazing at her grinning, 'take a hoult o' the thrunk an' lead the way to Margret Laffan's in the Red Glen.
Father Corrigan gave up the carving in less than no time, for it would take him half a day to sarve them all, and he wanted to provide for number one. After helping himself, he set my uncle to it, and maybe he didn't slash away right and left. There was half a dozen gorsoons carrying about the beer in cans, with froth upon it like barm but that was beer in airnest, Nancy I'll say no more."
There," he added, spreading it over them; "let it help to keep you warm to-night for God knows, you want it, you an' them poor gorsoons.
"He says there isn't one of the neighbours but got great annoyance by the same dog, yer worship, and that when the dog'd be out by night hunting, there wouldn't be a yard o' wather in the lakes but he'd have it barked over." "It appears," observed Dr. Lyden serenely, "that the dog, like the gorsoons, was of both sexes." "Well, well, no matther now; we'll hear what the defendant has to say.
Darcy hitched himself round, still with a shoulder propped against the partition, and uttered, without any enthusiasm, a few nasal and guttural sentences. "He says, yer worship," said William, with unctuous propriety, "that Sweeny's gorsoons were ever and always hunting his sheep, and settin' on their dog to hunt her, and that last week they dhrove her into the lake and dhrownded her altogether."
"The squire very kindly lent sheets for them both to be laid out in, and mould candle-sticks to hould the lights; and, God he knows, 'twas a grievous sight to see the father and mother both stretched beside one another in their poor place, and their little orphans about them; the gorsoons, them that had sense enough to know their loss, breaking their hearts, the craythurs, and so hoarse, that they weren't able to cry or spake.
* Fact Oatmeal is in general substituted for soap, by those who cannot afford to buy the latter. By this time the morning was tolerably advanced, and the neighbors were beginning to arrive in twos and threes, to wipe out old scores. Katty had sent several of the gorsoons "to see if they could see any sight of the clargy," but hitherto their Reverences were invisible.
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