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The servants' hall used to take a tender interest in those bad days. "Somebody ought to spake to her," said Bridget. "Supposin' the gout was to go to his heart! He was bad enough after the last time she was here." "She'll never lave hoult of him," said Pat, solemnly. "The sort of her Ladyship houlds on the tighter the more you wriggle.
That same evening Donnel was overtaken on the road from Ballynafail, the market-town, by Jerry Sullivan, a struggling farmer, and they proceeded together to the latter's house. "This woful saison, along wid the low prices and the high rents, houlds out a black and terrible look for the counthry, God help us!" said Sullivan. "Ay," returned the Black Prophet, "if you only knew it.
"I'll hould no more discoorse wid that circulatin' vagabone," replied Jemmy; "I'm a Christian man a peaceable man; an' I know what my religion ordhers me to do when I meet the likes of him and that is when he houlds the one cheek towardst me to give him a sound Christian rap upon the other. So to the divil I pitch, you, you villain, sowl and body, an' that's the worst I wish you.
Nowit's not that I'm afeared, but as he's to have the girl himself, it's but fair that his own neck should run the first danger, an' not mine." They all assented to this. "Well, then, boys," he proceeded, "if yez support me, well make him head this business himself. It's his own consarn, not ours; an' besides, as he houlds the Articles, it's his duty to lead us in everything.
It was given to him by his uncle, as a remembrance of him, in the first place; and secondly, for a more special purpose. "This will sarve you, sir," said his uncle, "an' I'll tell you how: if you want to smuggle in a sup of good whiskey as of coorse you will, plase goodness why this houlds exactly a pint, an' is the very thing for it.
They were joost frighted, they hollers, and yawps, and looks as white as may be. I fastens Juno oop wi' a strap and they houlds Bess while I poot some snoof t' her nose." "Put what?" Mr. Brook asked. "Joost a pinch of snoof, sir. I heard feyther say as snoof would make dogs loose, and so I bought a haporth and carried it in my pocket, for th' dogs don't moind oi when they are put oot.
Now Bodagh Buie, as far as I hear for I'm in the dark myself nearly as much as you Bodagh Buie houlds out against them; an' not only that, I'm tould, but gives them hard words, an' sets them at defiance." "But what has all this to do with me marrying his daughter?"
And sure enough the braves made as if they would folly, but the leftenant throws the reins of her horse over the horn of his saddle, and whips out his revolver and houlds 'em back till I've got well away to the trail again. And then they let fly their arrows, and begorra the next thing a BULLET whizzes by him.
He accordingly returned with the flask in his hand, saying, "I never thravel widout a pocket-pistol, John. The times, you see, is not overly safe, an' the best way is to be prepared! ha, ha, ha! Och, och! It houlds three half-pints." "I think," observed the servant, "you had better not taste that till after your return."
Sure it houlds sich a hard grip of his poor sowl, that it'll be the destruction of him here an' hereafther. It'll kill him afore his time, an' then I thrimble to think of his chance above." "The object is a good one, sure enough, an' it bein' for a spiritual purpose the priest won't object to it." "Why would he, dear, an' it for the good of his sowl?
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