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McKeon, long life to her, has sent us up from Drumsna; and Saturday wouldn't shute at all, seeing the boys will mostly be dhrunk, which may be yer honer wouldn't like on the morning of the blessed Sabbath." "Nor on any other morning. Can't they take their fun without getting drunk, like beasts? But drunk they'll be, of course. And why would not Monday do?" "Why that's next week, yer riverence!"
But if ye would take it aisy and lave it to me, and persuade these meddlesome boobies to mind their own particular business, and throuble us no more, it's meself would be sure to bring the handsome sum to yer riverence when I come to confession. Contrariwise, you see, and you kape fussing, and they kape fussing, it's all loss it is to ye, and no gain."
Ah, I had ye thin, sharp as you count yourself! "'Well, now, I'll bet the very moral of him against himself that Katty'll send up again if she don't come herself. "'Done! for twice as much if you will. She doesn't dare "'Good evening, your riverence, said a woman's voice. And in the doorway stood Lanty Casey and Katty Collins.
"That they do, Davy, by the ton," he replied, "and so must we, as the rulers of a great province. For mark me, though the men are happy to-day, in four days they will be grumbling and trying to desert in dozens." We were interrupted by a knock at the door, and there stood Terence McCann. "His riverence!" he announced, and bowed low as the priest came into the room.
On the Wednesday morning after the fair, Father John was sitting eating his breakfast in his little parlour, attending much more to a book on the table before him than to the large lumps of bread and butter which he unconsciously swallowed, when the old woman servant, Judy McCan, opened the door and said, "Father John, plase, there's Denis McGovery wanting to see yer riverence, below then."
I'm koorius about this, bekaise I've got a receipt for that same that's infallerable, as his Riverence says. Tell him, with my luv, to mix a spoonful o' pepper, an' two o' salt, an' wan o' mustard, an' a glass o' whisky in a taycup, with a sprinklin' o' ginger; fill it up with goat's milk, or ass's, av ye can't git goat's; bait it in a pan, an' drink it as hot as he can hotter, if possible.
"Faix, then, yer riverence," said Joe Reynolds from the bottom of the table, "you may tell by the way the boys take to the bottle, that they'll behave themselves dacently and discreatly, like Christians." "Indeed, then, Reynolds, where you are, and the whiskey with you, I believe there's likely to be little discretion but the discretion of drunkenness, and not much of that."
"Nayther whiskey punch?" "Nayther that." "Well, thin, yer riverence, would it be any harrum fur me to give a toast?" "By no manes, Mrs. O'Brien. Toast away as much as ye like, bedad!" "Well, thin, here's to the Council of Trint, fur if it keeps us from atin', it doesn't keep us from drinkin'!"
Both the consenting parties were rich in love and in their prospects, but destitute of financial resources. The father was obdurate. "No money, no marriage." "Give me l'ave, your riverence," said the blushing bride, "to go and get the money." It was given, and she sped forth on the delicate mission of raising a marriage fee out of pure nothing.
Who'd have thought to see you butting at the Captain, like an old goat on his hind legs!" "Faix then, yer riverence, I didn't intend to be trating the Captain in that way; but any way the Captain's head is 'amost as hard as my own, for the flashes isn't out of my eyes yet."
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