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Knockarney House is not her name for it; I made it myself. Killarney is church of the sloe-trees; and as kill is church, the 'onderhanded manin'' of 'arney' must be something about sloes; then, since knock means hill, Knockarney should be hill of the sloe-trees.
It don't seem so to me; some wimmen fight with their fists," sez he, "and some with their tongues." That wuz his mean, onderhanded way of talkin'. But these wimmen are about as humbly as they make wimmen anywhere. And as for clothes, they are about as poor on't for 'em as anybody I see to the Fair. They had on jest as few as they could. They say their war dances is a sight to see.
Down the lovely river we went, lazily lying back in the sun, almost the only passengers on the little craft, as it was still far too early for tourists; down past Villierstown, Cooneen Ferry, Strancally Castle, with its 'Murdering Hole' made famous by the Lords of Desmond, through the Broads of Clashmore; then past Temple Michael, an old castle of the Geraldines, which Cromwell battered down for 'dire insolence, until we steamed slowly into the harbour of Youghal and, to use our driver's expression, there is no more 'onderhanded manin'' in Youghal than the town of the Yew Wood, which is much prettier to the eye and sweeter to the ear.
"That's what I says," growled Tom Tully; "directly I opens my mouth I gets a bullying. I allus gets told I'm a-grumbling." "Well, come now," said the gunner, "speak out will you? What's the matter?" "Oh, I don't want to speak out unless you like," said Tom. "Yes, come, out with it, and don't let's have no mutinous, onderhanded ways," cried the gunner importantly.
On asking our jarvey the meaning of Bally as a prefix, he answered reflectively: "I don't think there's annything onderhanded in the manin', melady; I think it means BALLY jist."
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