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"With respect to the O'Hallaghans, they and our family, have been next neighbors since before the Flood and that's as good as two hundred years; for I believe it's 198, any how, since my great grandfather's grand-uncle's ould mare was swept out of the 'Island, in the dead of the night, about half an hour after the whole country had been ris out of their beds by the thunder and lightning.
"Ah, git away with your advisin'," replied Murty. "Billy knows the horse an' where'd a shlip of a boy be if Shannon cleared out with him? I'd rather carry too much weight, an' know I'd put a man up as could hold the horse." His anxious eye fell on the girls. "Miss Norah and Miss Tommy! come here an' wish him luck without offerin' me any advice, or I'll lose me life over the ould race!
'Tis always the way. Howsiver, niver say die; better luck nixt time; ye'll make yer fortin' yit, av ye only parsevair an' kape up yer heart, ould boy." Thus soliloquising, the unfortunate man remounted his wet and bare-backed steed, and rode away.
Is it true that he's puttin' yez all out in the road?" "He is," says Mike, "but he'll be sorry for it yet?" "Mind that now," some one would say, and the nods and the shakings of the heads would become more mysterious than ever, and then the gossips would begin to chuckle over Peter's discomfiture; the universal verdict being that "It sarved him right, the covetious ould blackguard!" Mrs.
"Very well; if you won't be a gold stick, there's the other alternative: fortify Kelly's Court, and prepare for the sheriff's officers. Of the two, there's certainly more fun in it; and you can go out with the harriers on a Sunday afternoon, and live like a 'ra'al O'Kelly of the ould times'; only the punch'll kill you in about ten years." "Go on, Dot, go on. You want to provoke me, but you won't.
Faix, an' Invy is one o' them sure enough; but a joke is a joke in the mane time. A pleasant gintleman is the same Father Murray, but yer Reverence is too deep for him in the jokin' line, for all that. Ethen, Sir, but it's you that gave ould Cokely the keen cut about his religion ha, ha, ha! Myself laughed till I was sick for two days afther it the ould thief!" "Eh? Did you hear that, Dominick?
"An' the ould grandfather? musha, but I was glad to see him look so well on Sunday last!" "Troth he's as stout as e'er a one of us." "The Lord continue it to him! I suppose you hard o' this robbery that was done at honest Jemmy Burke's?" "I did, indeed, an' I was sorry to hear it." "A hundre' an' fifty pounds is a terrible loss to anybody in such times."
Sometimes corpses are waked in a bed, with their faces visible; when that is the case, white sheets, crosses, and sometimes flowers, are pinned up about the bed, except in the front; but when they're undher boord, a set of ould women sit smoking, and rocking themselves from side to side, quite sorrowful these are keeners friends or relations; and when every one connected with the dead comes in, they raise the keene, like a song of sorrow, wailing and clapping their hands.
Lorrequer," said he; "this is mighty like our ould practices in College-green; but upon my conscience the maire has the advantage of Gabbet. It's lucky for you I know his worship, as we'd call him at home, or this might be a serious business. Nothing would persuade them that you were not Lucien Buonaparte, or the iron mask, or something of that sort, if they took it into their heads." Mr.
Old Dick was in the act of letting fly an oath at something, when Jemmy, walking in, just as if nothing had happened, exclaimed "Why, thin, Mother o' Moses, is it at the ould work I find you? Troth, it's past counsel, past grace wid you I'm afraid you're too ould to mend. In the manetime, don't stare as if you seen a ghost only tell us how is that unfortunate leg of yours?"
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