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'Good whiskey? exclaimed Phelim; 'did ever you see any whiskey that was bad. 'Now that you mintion it, says his riverince, 'I never did; but I've seen some that was scarce. 'Another bottle, Aunt Molly, says Phelim, 'his riverince has a hollow leg. When I came back with the bottle they were talking to a little, wild gossoon from the hills.
"I dares be bound, Meester Pepper, that you 'members vell ven Harry Cook, the great highvayman, poor fellow! he's gone vhere ve must all go, brought you, then quite a gossoon, for the first time to the little back parlour at the Cock and Hen, Dewereux Court?" Ned nodded assent. "And you 'members as how I met Harry and you there, and I vas all afeard at you, 'cause vy?
"Oh, queen of heaven!" says the king, making the sign of the cross between his eyes, and falling down on his knees before the saint; "is it the great Saint Kavin," says he, "that I've been discoursing all this time without knowing it," says he, "all as one as if he was a lump of a gossoon? and so you're a saint?" says the king. "I am," says Saint Kavin.
If it wasn't that we're getting retired shopkeepers on the bench, we'd not see an O'Shea sent to prison like a gossoon that stole a bunch of turnips. 'What has he been doing, I wonder? said Nina, as she drew her arm within Kate's and left the room. 'Some loud talk in the bar-parlour, perhaps, was Kate's reply, and the toss of her head as she said it implied more even than the words.
Only a gossoon of the hills could have gone up the face of the rock as Padraig did, and he presently found himself on a ledge about twenty feet up, above the quagmire. It was less than a foot wide at first, but widened toward the left, and seedling trees had formed a growth which appeared to merge into the densely wooded hill beyond.
I turned my horse's head away in disgust from one of these traditionary towns, and desired a boy to show me the way to Ellinor O'Donoghoe's house. "So I will, plase your honour, my lard; sure I've a right to know, for she's my own granny." The boy, or, as he was called, the gossoon, ran across some fields where there was abundance of fern and of rabbits.
At length he threw up his arms with a gesture of surprise, calling out at the same time: "Por todos santos! se fue!" "Hurrah!" cried Chane; "holies! such a gossoon as that boy!" Several of the guerilleros dived into the thicket; but their search was in vain. We were now separated, so that we could no longer converse, and were more strictly watched, two sentries standing over each of us.
You won't see the poor gossoon go to a sthrange country with empty pockets. He's the son of an honest man one of yourselves; and although he's a poor man, you know 'twas Yallow Sam that made him so that put him out of his comfortable farm and slipped a black-mouth * into it. You won't turn your backs on the son in regard of that, any way.
'A letter for your honour, said the servant, entering with a very informal-looking note on coarse paper, and fastened with a wafer. 'The gossoon, sir, is waiting for an answer; he run every mile from Moate. 'Read it, Kitty, said the old man, not heeding the servant's comment.
Mind I am not threatening you, Captain Ussher, but it's little good you or them as is in Ballycloran will be getting for the work you're now doing What are you pulling at, misther'? D'ye think I can't walk av myself, without your hauling and pulling like a gossoon at a pig's hind leg."
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