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'I mourn the earth-worms, the cacti, and the tireless "gossoon," added Amanda, who appreciated French cookery and had enjoyed confidences with Adolphe. 'The cats, the cats, the cats! I could die happy if I had one, murmured Lavinia; and with these laments they left the town behind them.
In most Irish families there used to be a barefooted gossoon, who was slave to the cook and butler, and who in fact, without wages, did all the hard work of the house. Gossoons were always employed as messengers. At St.
Here he was interrupted by the sight of a little gossoon, with a short stick tucked under his arm, who came pattering on bare-foot in a kind of pace indescribable to those who have never seen it it was something as like walking or running as chanting is to speaking or singing.
When he got near the village he picked up a little boy to show him the short cut across the fields to the house here; and as his lordship was a 'sharp man and a shrewd, he kept his eye on every thing as he went along, remarking this, and noting down that. "'Are ye regular in yer duties, my son? said he to the gossoon.
But, what is infinitely more extraordinary and unaccountable, they sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. A woman who has a drunken husband is most fortunate if she can prevail upon him to go to the priest, and make a vow against whiskey for a year, or a month, or a week, or a day. Gossoon, a little boy from the French word garcon.
"Whe-e-e-up!" whistled my questioner between his teeth, a broad grin overspreading his yet broader face. "Alannah macree, me poor gossoon! it's pitying ye I am, by me sowl, from the bottom av me heart. Ye're loike a young bear wid all y'r throubles an' thrials forenenst ye. Aye, yez have, as sure's me name's Tim Rooney, me darlint!" "Why do you say so, sir?"
No, he did not, and had not; yet, stay, he had heard a rumor, once upon a time, of a great, old house standing alone out in the wilderness; but, if he remembered rightly it was a place given over to the fairies; or, if that had not been so, he was certain that there had been something "quare" about it; and, anyway, he had heard nothing of it for a very long while not since he was quite a gossoon.
Daddy paid no attention. He threw himself back in his chair with a long breath. 'Bedad, and I knew it, Davy! But sorrow a bit o' pity will you get out o' me, my boy sorrow a bit! He lay staring at his companion with a glittering hostile look. 'By the powers! he said presently, 'to be a gossoon of twenty again and throubled about a woman! David sprang up. 'Well, Daddy, I'll bid you good night!
Philip's place was always near his father; this had been a custom ever since he had been a baby. Kitty now ensconced herself in the little boy's chair. "Am I taking anybody's seat?" she asked, looking up. "Only mine," said Phil. "Never mind, little gossoon; you shall have it to-morrow. I want to sit near Mr. Denvers because I expect he can tell me a good many things I don't understand."
'It's thrue for you, Jim Mallowney, says she, 'but I'm afeard the neighbours will be all talkin' about it, says she. 'Divil's cure to the word, says he. 'An' who would you advise? says she. 'Young Andy Curtis is the boy, says he. 'He's a likely boy in himself, says she. 'An' as handy a gossoon as is out, says he.
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