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He seen me mother one day cleaning fish, I b'lieve she was, below on the quay an' nothing would howld him but he should dhraw out her picture!" Croppy laughed unfilially. "Well, me mother was mad.
"Howld on, I tell yees, howld on; maybe you'll both have to offer 'em afore he'll bite. My repater is like myself it took too much salt water for its good and hasn't been well for a few months. If the ould thing would only tick a little he couldn't resist it; it has a beautiful voice when it starts like a thrashing machine."
"His wife!" she thought; "it's a mother the poor boy stands in need of." "Me wife," repeated Mr. O'Rourke, "for betther or for worse." "You had better go away," said Mrs. Bilkins, bridling up, "or it will be the worse for you." "To have and to howld," continued Mr.
"Well, maybe it's all for the best," said Andy, "afther all." "Augh, howld your tongue!" "And if it wasn't to be, how could it be?" "Listen to him!" "And Providence is over us all." "Oh! yis!" said the mother. "When fools make mistakes they lay the blame on Providence. How have you the impidence to talk o' Providence in that manner? I'll tell you where the Providence was.
"Ut tuk eight av us to howld um whilst Burrage toied um hand an' fut, an' phwin we'd dhrug um into th' shtore we seed 'twuz Creed hissilf. Twuz two days befoor th' sheriff come fer um, an' in th' mane toime he'd gabble an' yell about th' greener comin' afther um, an' how he come out av th' wather, an' so on.
O'Rourke, wandering retrospectively in the mazes of the marriage service, "to have and to howld, till death bad luck to him! takes one or the ither of us." "You 're a blasphemous creature," said Mrs. Bilkins, severely. "Thim 's the words his riverince spake this mornin', standin' foreninst us," explained Mr. O'Rourke. "I stood here, see, and me jew'l stood there, and the howly chaplain beyont."
"Howld on a jiffy!" cried the Major, excitedly. "Did I understand you to say the Pierce-Lane Lumber Company?" "That was the firm, sir. I used to overhear my father and Will Thompson talking about this matter; but I must admit my knowledge is somewhat imperfect, because I never was allowed to ask questions.
"I'll not be gone long; howld the boat only for a twinkling." He ran a dozen steps or so from shore to where was the stump of a tree that had probably been splintered by a thunder-bolt, and around which sprouted a number of bushes that were dense enough to hide a large object within.
"I'm towld that there's to be a Parlimint in Galway city that's to find imploymint for the people, an' that ivery man is to have five acres of good land for nothin', and that if it isn't good land he is to have ten acres, and that there's to be an Oirish King in Dublin, an' that all the sojers an' pleecemen is to be put out o' the counthry, an' all Protestants is to go to England, an' that's all very good, but the Protestants might be allowed to stay, for they're dacent folks, but thin they say that nobody's to howld land but the Catholics."
"If we wait a while we'll not need the match." "Why not?" "It isn't very hard to git hungry enough to ate the same without waiting for the benefit of cooking." "I can't do that," added Elwood, with an expression of disgust. "Nor can I," added Howard. "I've done it, and found it tasted good," said Tim, "and so would yez but howld on! One of yez whack me over the head!"