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But f'r thim that likes it, it's all r-right, an' if a man's done something in his youth that he has to do pinance f'r an' th' stations iv th' cross ain't sthrong enough, lave him, says I, marry as manny women as he wants an' live with them an' die contint. Th' Mormons thinks they ar-re commanded be the Lord f'r to marry all th' ineligeable Swede women.
An' I sthud there, an' waited f'r him while he crawled wan block over th' ice, mutterin' prayers at ivry fut. "I wint home with him aftherwards; an' what d'ye think he said? 'Martin, says he, 'I've been a sinful man in me time; but I niver had th' like iv that f'r a pinance, he says. 'Think iv doin' th' stations iv th' cross on th' ice, he says.
"'Tis all the company cares about is to get a good rent out of the pay. They're asked every little while by honest folks 'on't they build a trifle o' small houses beyond the church up there, but no, they'd rather the money and kape us like bees in them old hives. Sure in winter we're better for having the more fires, but summer is the pinance!"
"Have you no better clothes than these?" "You see all that I have on me, shir." "Well, come, I'll give you the price of a suit rather than see such a scarecrow in my garden." "I couldn't take it, shir." "The devil you couldn't! Why not, man?" "Bekaise, shir, I'm under pinance." "Well, why don't you shave?" "I can't, shir, for de same raison."
"There's five thirteens for you, and I wish to God, my good fellow, that you would allow yourself to be put in better feathers." "Oh, I expect my pinance will be out before a mont', shir; but, until den, I couldn't take any money." "Malcomson," said he to the gardener, "I think that fellow's a half fool. I offered him a crown, and also said.
To these were joined twelve hired ships and six tenders. The city of London provided sixteen ships, twice the number demanded, with four store-ships; the city of Bristol, three; Barnstaple, three; Exeter, two, and a tender and stout pinance; Plymouth, seven stout ships, equal to the men-of-war. Sixteen ship were under Lord Henry Seymour.
"Why, then, be gorra, I'm glad you axed me, so I am for only you seen the pinance in my face, you'd never suppose sich a thing. I want to make my confishion to him, wid the help o' Goodness." "Is there any news goin', Phelim?"
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