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I shall entertain the question, as they say; and it is not improbable but that I may dignify the fair Katsey with the honorable title of Mrs. Burke." "I wish you had spoken a little sooner, then," replied his father, "bekaise it so happens that Gerald Cavanagh an' I have the match between her and your brother Ned as good as made." "My brother Ned!
"'Jemmy, the gentleman, has promised to stand to me some of these days, and pay off all my transgressions, like a good, kind-hearted, soft-headed old Trojan as he is; and, for this reason, I don't wish to press him now. The mare is sold under peculiar circumstances; otherwise I could have no chance of her at such a price. By the way, when did you see Katsey'
I think, Master Edward, the Boy-god has already taken occupation; the vituline affection for the fair Katsey has set in; heigho, what a delightful period of life is that soft and lickful one of calf love, when the tongue rolls about the dripping lips, the whites of the eyes are turned towards the divine, the ox-eyed Katsey, and you are ready to stagger over and blare out the otherwise unutterable affection."
However, I know what he's exterminatin' for; he wants you to marry Kathleen Cavanagh." "Ay do I, Rosha; and she might make him a respectable man yet, that is, if any woman could." "Geological again, mother; well, really now, Katsey Cavanagh is a splendid girl, a fine animal, no doubt of it; all her points are good, but, at the same time, Mr. Burke, a trifle too plebeian for Hycy the accomplished."
"Ay, Katsey! think of that, now doesn't he respect your daughter very much, father? "'By the way, when did you see Katsey Cavanagh? "What is this you're readin' to me?" asked her father. "You don't mean to say that this letter is to Kathleen?" "Why, no; but so much the better one has an opportunity now of seein' what he is made of.
The letter was intended for Bryan M'Mahon; but he sent it, by mistake, to Kathleen. Listen "'When did you see Katsey Cavanagh? She certainly is not ill-looking, and will originate you famous mountaineers. "'Ever thine, "'H. Burke. "Here's more, though: listen, mother, to your favorite, that you want to marry Kathleen to:
Burke, you are pleased to be sarcastic; but as for honest Katsey, have the goodness to take her out of your eye as soon as possible, for she only blinds you to your own interest and to mine." "You wouldn't marry Kathleen, then?" "For the present I say most assuredly not," replied the son, in the same ironical and polite tone.
"'P.S. I will clear scores with you for all in the course of a few months, and remember that, at your marriage, I must, with my own hand, give you away to Katsey, the fair Oolossa." The perusal of this document, at least so far as they could understand it, astonished them not a little.
Burke, if I remember correctly, you proposed something like a matrimonial union between the unrivalled Katsey Cavanagh and the accomplished Hycy." "I did, God forgive me." "I have been thinking over that subject since." "Have you, indeed," said his father; "an' am I to make Ned a priest or a farmer?" he asked, dryly. "The church, I think, Mr. Burke, is, or ought to be, his destination."
"'Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon, How can you bloom so fresh and fair, How can ye chant, ye little birds, And I sae weary fu' o' care, &c., &c. "Well, well I do not relish that last hint certainly, and if other projects should fail, why, as touching the fair Katsey, it might not be impossible that however, time will develop.
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