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And now I'll tell yez a story that the mintion of the Protestants brings to my mind: * In the North of Ireland the word black-mouth means a Presbyterian. "There was, you see, a Protestant man and a Catholic woman once married together. The man was a swearing, drinking, wicked rascal, and his wife the same: between them they were a blessed pair to be sure.
"Yes, saucy Ould Nick had it from his very mout' and even the divil would hardly be such a blackguard as to lie about his own name. Och! he's a roarer, sure enough; and then for the tusks you mintion, I didn't see 'em, with my eyes; but the crathure has a mouth that might hould a basket-full." Joel now perceived that he must go more seriously to work to undeceive his companion.
"That's the very thing," replied the unsuspicious and candid young man, "that I wanted to spake to you about." "What! about sleepin' in the meadows?" "Divil a bit o' that, Bartle, not a morsel of sleepin' in the meadows is consarned in what I'm goin' to mintion to you. Bartle, didn't you tell me, the day you hired wid my father, that you wor in love?" "I did, Connor, I did."
'Gintlemen, he says, 'I find that th' wurruk ye've been accustomed to doin', he says, 'is calc'lated f'r to disthroy th' morality an' debase th' home life iv Topeka, not to mintion th' surroundin' methrolopuses iv Valencia, Wanamaker, Sugar Works, Paxico an' Snokomo, he says.
"Spoken like a Christian! Sure, that's jist what St. Patrick would say, if the saint long life to him! were here," replied Pat, rejoicing that the difficulty was overcome. "Now, dhraw near till I tells yous all about it; and, if iver you mintion a word of it, may your sowl never lave purgatory till it is burnt to a cindther!
"Then, when that's done," he continued, "I'll cut your lashin's, an' we'll crowd all sail for the woods, where I have already concealed some arms an' dried deer's-meat, an' if we can't get fair off and make for the east coast, we'll get on the top o' some mound or rock an' show these Redskins what English seamen can do when they're hard pressed." "Not to mintion Irish wans!" said Squill.
An' thin he must renounce his political ideas, or promise never to mintion thim in public. But, begorra, he'd have to sell his birthright for a mess of pottage by makin' a decoy duck of himself!" In adding this great specimen to the immortal list of memorable mixed metaphors, I feel that my visit to Ireland has not been quite in vain. No. 10. "Burn everything English except English coals."
"Say, Dannie, where do you think the Kingfisher is wintering?" "And the Black Bass," answered Dannie. "Where do ye suppose the Black Bass is noo?" "Strange you should mintion the Black Bass," said Jimmy. "I was just havin' a little talk about him with a frind of mine named Chickie-dom, no, Chickie-dee, who works a grub stake back there.
"Know, is it?" replied Peter "some long-headed plan that none of us 'ud ever think of, but that will stare us in the face the moment you mintion it. What is it, you ould sprig o' beauty?" "Why, to get a snug jauntin'-car, for you an' me. I'd like to see you comfortable in your old days, Peter. You're gettin' stiff, ahagur, an' will be good for nothin' by an' by." "Stiff!
O'Brien; "do you dar to mintion them in the same day together?" "Why not," said the miser; "ay, an' on the same night, too?" "Upon my reputaytion, Mr. O'Donovan, you're extramely kind now be a little more so, and let us undherstand you," said the Bodagh. "Poor Una!" thought John, "all's lost; he will get himself kicked out to a certainty."
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