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'Hould your tongue, you barbarrian, says she; 'you'll waken the child, says she. 'An' if I done right, says he, for the spoonful of boilin' wather riz him entirely, 'I'd take yourself, says he, 'an' I'd stuff you into the pot an the fire, an' boil you. says he, 'into castor oil, says he.
"That's true, Barney; and not the least 'quare' among them is an Irishman, a particular friend of mine." "Hould yer tongue, ye spalpeen, or I'll put yer head in the wather!" "I wish ye would, Barney, for it is terribly hot and mosquito-bitten, and you couldn't have suggested anything more delightful.
'Deed an' I thought the eend of the warld had come when I heerd it, for my head went round and round and round as I stood in the stable, and only for the fork I had a hould of, I'd have been down among the crathur's legs." And then it struck Herbert that as they were going on he heard the footsteps of some one running after the car, always at an equal distance behind them.
"Low born tyrant," she shouted, kneeling rapidly down and holding up her clasped hands, but not in supplication "low born, tyrant," she shouted, "stop; spawn of blasphemin' Deaker, stop bastard of the notorious Kate Clank, hould your hand? You see we know you and yours well. You were a bad son to a bad mother, and the curse of God will pursue you and yours, for that and your other villanies.
Throth, but you ought to hould down your head, sure enough a dacent woman! that only for her you wouldn't have a house over you, so you wouldn't." "And throth, and the same house is going, Tim," Nancy would exclaim, "and when it goes, let him see thin who'll do for him; let him thry if his blackguards will stand to him, when he won't have poor foolish Nancy at his back."
To put him foremost was as bad, for he couldn't play and hould the bridle together; so at last my uncle proposed that he should get behind himself, turn his face to the horse's tail, and saw away like a Trojan. "It might be about four miles or so to the priest's house, and, as the day was fine, we' got on gloriously.
Elise entered with smiling face, and curtsied to the young men, who advanced and shook her heartily by the hand. "Hould their hids, Mister Kenneth," exclaimed the driver of the foremost sleigh, as he sought to undo the traces of the dogs. "Sure they're all alike horses or dogs, they never will lay still when they're wanted to; bad luck to 'em intirely. Me heart is all but broke.
"This would make a brave powdher-horn, Darby Moore," observed one of Reilla-ghan's sons, "if it wasn't so big. What do you keep in it, Darby?" "It smells like whiskey, Darby," said the boy, without any intention, however, of offending him. "It smells very like poteen." "Hould yer tongue, Risthard," said the elder Reillaghan; "what 'ud make the honest man have whiskey in it?
"Her father," he continued, "fought and fell for his coontry. A man as fights for's coontry's a right to hould up his head ay! with any in the land. Desb'roughs o' Dorset! d'ye know that family, Master Feverel?" Richard did not know them, and, by his air, did not desire to become acquainted with any offshoot of that family.
Let the neighbors about us here examine the body, in ordher to see whether it mightn't be possible that the dacent boy came by his death from somebody else's hand than his own. Hould forrid the lights," said he, "till we see how he's lyin', an' how the gun's lyin'." "Darby," said young Frank, "I can't but be oblaged to you for that.
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