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Well, Larry's haunt, on finding Sally out when he came home, was either at the Squire's kitchen, or Tom Hance's; and as he was the broth of a boy at dancing, the sarvints, when he'd go down, would send for Wilty to Hance's, if he didn't happen to be with themselves at the time, and strike up a dance in the kitchen; and, along with all, may be Larry would have a sup in his head.
"Somebody comin', to see some of the sarvints, I suppose," replied his wife; "why, thin, it's not unlike little Dick Croaitha, the fairyman."
"Oh, not at all," replied the pedlar, "especially when I'm expectin' a favor from one of his sarvints. Throth he'll soon by all accounts have his hook in the ould Clip o' the! Grange an' afther that some of his friends will soon folly him. I wouldn't be mainin' one Jemmy Branigan.
Oh, dear no but it's a sure case that's the Black Boy's intention to take the whole family by instalments, an' wid respect to the sarvints to place them in their ould situations. Faith you'll have a warm berth of it, Jemmy, an' well you desarve it." "Why then you circulating vagabone," replied Jemmy; "if you wern't a close friend to him, you'd not know his intentions so well.
No, no, but I'll sit a clane, dacent ould woman in the corner upon a chair that you'll get made for me. There I'll be wid my pipe and tobacco, smokin' at my aise, chattin' to the sarvints, and sometimes discoorsin' the neighbors that'll come to inquire for you, when they'll be sittin' in the kitchen waitin' till you get through your office.
"I don't want the pig, my good fellow," replied the Englishman, without evincing curiosity enough to inquire how he came to have such a commodity for sale. "She'd be the darlint in no time wid you, sir; the run o' your kitchen 'ud make her up a beauty, your haner, along wit no trouble to the sarvints about sweepin' it, or any thing.
We'll build a castle, and you'll have upstairs and downstairs a coach and six to ride in lots of sarvints to attend on you, and full and plinty of everything; not to mintion hem! not to mintion that you'll have a husband that the fairest lady in the land might be proud of, says he, stretching himself up in the saddle, and giving the filly a jag of the spurs, to show off a bit; although the coaxing rogue knew that the money which was to do all this was her own.
If you want a sarvint I'll hire; for, as I said a while ago, I want a place, an' except wid you I don't know where to get one." "If you come to me," observed the other, "you must go to your duty, an' observe the fast days, but not the holydays." "Sarvints isn't obliged to obsarve them," replied Bartle. "But I always put it in the bargain," returned the other.
I dare say Miss Bell had something to do with the foolish boy's regret for leaving Maple Grove. 'Every day was like a Christmas or an Aisther, continued Andy, who had no idea that any one could prefer silence to conversation; 'an' the sarvints had parlour fare in the kitchen always, an' a supper that was like a dinner, just before goin' to bed.
Many a thing people will have to say to one another about the pleasant times they had together, or several other subjects best known to themselves, of coorse. Larry would come home in her absence, and finding the door locked, would slip down to Squire Dickson's, to chat with the steward or gardener, or with the sarvints in the kitchen.
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