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"'No more o' your stuff, says the cat; 'don't be stand in' here undher the hedge talkin', or we'll lose our karacthers for I've remarked your wife is jealous, Tom. "'Pon my sowl, that's thrue, says Tom, with a smirk. "'More fool she, says the cat, 'for, 'pon my conscience, Tom, you're as ugly as if you wor bespoke. "Off ran the cat with these words, leaving Tom in amazement.
The family, when the driver knocked, were all asleep, or at least had not arisen, and on the door being opened by a broad-faced, good-humored looking servant, who was desired to go to a lady in the chaise, the woman, after rubbing her eyes and yawning, looked about her as if she were in a dream, exclaiming, "Lord bless us! and divil a sowl o' them out o' the blankets yet!"
"Troth, man," replied Dolan, "beggin' your pardon, I'll dhrink first healths apiece, your sowl; success boys glory to ourselves, and confusion to the Scanlon boys, any way." "And maybe," observed Connell, "'tis we that didn't lick them well in the last fair they're not able to meet the Findramore birds even on their own walk." "Well, boys," said Delany, "about the masther?
"Only with this proviso, that if they cannot manage for themselves they must fall into our way of managing for them." "What I say, is this," said Mr. O'Leary. "Let 'em manage for 'emselves. God bless my sowl! Why, we shall be skinned alive if we have to pay all this money back to Government. If Government chooses to squander thousands in this way, Government should bear the brunt.
You're a purty prime ministher, ye boxing blackguard, you: I left you to keep pace among these factions, and you've kicked up a purty dust. What blackened your eye eh? "I'll tell you, sir, whin I come in, if you plase." "Ho, you vagabones, this is the ould work of the faction between the Bradys and the Callaghans bastin' one another; but, by my sowl, I'll baste you all through other.
"Larry o hale." "p.s. Plaze give my apologys to yoor muther for forgitin to send my respeks to her. also to maryan, whos a dasent woman av she wasnt so fond o' fitein. also to richards an' his beter haf gemima. Shees a good sowl too av she wasnt aflikted wid too ardint a desir to wair some of her husbands garmints. so no more at present from L.o.h."
But he's promised to help me aff wi' my feet some day: think o' that! Eh, gien I cud but get my feet aff! Eh, gien they wad but stick i' my shune, and gang wi' them whan I pu' them aff! They're naething efter a', ye ken, but the shune o' my sowl! A gust of wind drove against the house, and sank as suddenly. 'That'll be ane o' them! said Steenie, rising hastily. 'He'll be wantin me!
Look at Mickey Mulvather there, you see his head tied up; but aldo he can play cards well enough, be me sowl, he's short of wan ear any how, an' if you could meet wan o' the same Stewart's bullets, goin' abroad at night like ourselves for its divarsion, it might tell how he lost it. Bartle, I tell you a number of us isn't satisfied wid you.
For five minutes he beat the bedclothes; then his spirits rose and, like the mercurial Celt that he was, he chanted blithely a verse from "The Night Before Larry Was Stretched": "'Though, sure 'tis the best way to die, Oh, the divil a betther a-livin'! For sure whin the gallows is high, Your journey is shorter to heaven; But what harasses Larry the most, An' makes his poor sowl melancholy, Is to think av the time whin his ghost Will come in a sheet to sweet Molly!
No, I'm sure there's no salt goes in at all; that's against reason, an' ye'll notice that the principles of philosophy go into all the ways of life. And, lastly, makin', as I may say, the roundin' out of the muscular and adipose tissue of the crayture, as the sowl of the pie we must have the apples. It's a sin to waste 'em peelin'; but I think they used to peel 'em, too.
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