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Whoever thought there would be the like of that to see, and not a penny to pay for it.... The minute the peelers came up ... where in hell were the peelers? It was then that they began to believe that there was more than a joke in this rebellion. There were no policemen to be seen anywhere. "That's strange now! There ought to be a peeler or two about!..."
"Forty millions o' goolden sovereigns, divil a less." "Thunder an' ouns, but ye startle me!" "An' we're losin' all that" "Save an' deliver us!" "Becase the English takes it" "Holy Virgin undefiled!" "To pay peelers an' sojers" "Bloody end to thim!" "To murther and evict us" "Lord help us!" "An' collect taxes an' rint." "Hell's blazes!"
"Make haste now and go up and tell your mother to hide the poteen" his mother used to sell poteen "for I'm after seeing the biggest party of peelers and yeomanry passing by on the rocks was ever seen on the island." It was at that time the wool was taken with the other man above, under the hill, and no peelers in the island at all.
"Oh, it war ofthen." "And what was said about him?" "Why, yer honour it was this way and I'll tell you all I know about it off hand and thin you'll not be throubling yer honour's self wid all these questions. The boys war mostly tenants to Mr. Thady here and they did be saying that av so av Mr. Thady would jine them in putting down the peelers and the Captain they'd undhertake Mr.
They's horses in that corral that are sure going to do things to us twenty peelers!" "By gracious, yes!" Andy was beginning to feel himself again. "That blue hoss uh course yuh heard how he got me, and heard it with trimmings yuh may think he's a man-eater; but while he's a bad hoss, all right, he ain't the one that'll get yuh. Yuh want t' watch out, Billy, for that HS sorrel. He's plumb wicked.
Then he let call the peelers they had peelers waiting to mind him and down they come to the big steppingstones they have above for crossing the first river coming out of the lakes; my man going in front to cross over, and the water was high up covering the Stones. Then he gave two leps or three, and the peelers heard him give a great shriek down in the flood.
"I beg your pardon, sir," replied Paul; "the very best Christians are in Ireland, which was once called the 'Isle of Saints, when all the people were Catholics; and where I came from, even now, they are all mostly Catholics. There are in the whole parish but two peelers, the minister and his wife, and the tithe proctor, or collector of tithes; in all, five Protestants."
"I'll have to wrap a waddin' av waste around me weapon, so I'll neither kill nor mangle but lay thim out wit' wan good crack "'It is on the firrst av August, the truth I will declare, Those people they assimbled that day all at the fair, But little was their notion that evil was in shtore, All by the bloody Peelers at the fair av Turloughmore. "I must practice crackin' the divils!
Jones, whose timidity was overwhelming, immediately sent for Mr. Brown; and he, also embarrassed, knocked at the door of Mr. Robinson's little room, and asked for counsel. "The Peelers are here, George," he said. "I knew there'd be a row." "I hope so," said Robinson; "I most sincerely hope so."
He has seen a good many of them, he says, in different parts of the island, especially in the sandy districts north of the slip. They are about a yard high with caps like the 'peelers' pulled down over their faces. On one occasion he saw them playing ball in the evening just above the slip, and he says I must avoid that place in the morning or after nightfall for fear they might do me mischief.
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