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"Why, is he dead, too?" "Be Gorra, no but the conthrairy to that. 'Twas his weddin' you seen passin' a minute agone." "Is it the young sogarth's? Musha, bad end to you, man alive, an' spake out. Tell us how that happened. Sowl it's a quare business, an' him was in Maynewth!" "Faith, he was so; an' they say there wasn't a man in Maynewth able to tache him.
Hynes took off his hat, shook it and then turned down the collar of his coat, displaying, as he did so, an ivy leaf in the lapel. "If this man was alive," he said, pointing to the leaf, "we'd have no talk of an address of welcome." "That's true," said Mr. O'Connor. "Musha, God be with them times!" said the old man. "There was some life in it then." The room was silent again.
No doubt he had heard much of the ignorance of the uncivilised English, but this beat the record. Not to know that Tralee was on the sea, not to know that the little port frowned o'er the wild Atlantic main, as Mr. Micawber would have said. He struggled for a moment with his emotion and then said, "Musha, the next parish is Amerikay!"
On hearing this, the kind landlady gave them a look of uncommon pity, exclaiming at the same time, as if in communication with her own feelings, "Musha, God pity them, the poor crathurs; an they surely can't but be both wake an ungry afther sich a journey, this blessed an' broilin'day och! och! if I had it or could afford it, an' they shouldn't want, any way arrah, won't ye thry and ate a bit of something?" addressing herself to them.
I took it with infinite delight; and holding it in my claws, and peeling it with my beak, began to mutter "Poor Pat! poor Pat!" "Oh, musha, musha! oh, by the powers!" He cried, "but that's a great bird, any how just like a Christian look here, boys." A crowd now gathered round my cage, and several exclamations, which recalled my old friends of the Propaganda, caught my attention.
"Musha! but that is a quare sound," whispered Flinders to Westly. "Hush!" returned Westly. At a signal from their chief the whole band of Indians sank, as it seemed, into the ground, melted off the face of the earth, and only the white men and the chief remained. "I must go forward alone," whispered Unaco, turning to Paul. "White man knows not how to go on his belly like the serpent."
"I say, Barney," cried Martin, who had gone ahead of his companions, "come here, man, and just look at this pond. It's literally crammed full of alligators." "Musha, but there's more alligators than wather, I belave!" exclaimed Barney.
"Is it broke bankrupt you'd have me then?" said Denis, "settin' up to be buyin' meself mounts of that expinsive discripshin?" "Musha, good gracious, man, promise him the first thruppinny-bit you meet floatin' down the river on a grindstone, and you'll be buyin' every hair in his tail," said the old man. "But come along and don't be delayin' thim.
"Musha! what is it all about at all?" queried Mrs. McNally. "Elleney, quit cryin' an' tell me what happened ye? What was that impident fellow Pat doin' rollin' Mr. Brennan on the floor?" Elleney shook her head, and wept, and nearly throttled her aunt, but entered on no explanation. Quick steps were now heard in the passage, and Anna Maria burst in.
May be you've heard what happened to myself up at Moronha?" "Look to that girth there. Well, go on." "I was coming along one morning, just as day was beginning to break, when I sees a slip of a pig trotting before me, with nobody near him; but as the road was lonely, and myself rather down in heart, I thought, Musha! but yer fine company, anyhow, av a body could only keep you with him.
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