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Buckley, and how did they behave themselves?" "Why," she answered, "they axed me if I had seen about the country a tight-looking fat little man, wid black twinklin' eyes and a rosy face, wid a pair o' priest's boots upon him, greased wid hog's lard? I said no, but to the revarse. They then searched the cabin, tossed the two beds about poor Jemmy's God rest my boy's sowl! an' afterwards my own.
"Whisht!" he exclaimed, with a laugh like an Eclipse, "bad luck to the fatther of it, but I forgot at home along wid the other eleven or stop here it is to the good still," pointing to his naked skin, "an' be my sowl, boys my lard an' gintlemen o' the jury, I mane it's the weavor of this linen that'll stand to us yet. "Gintlemin, I do maintain that there's a great dale to be said for Mat Purcel.
"I think it's time we got them married," replied Fardorougha; "the sooner it's done the better, and the safer for both o' them; especially for the colleen." "Dar a Lorha, he's cracked," said Mrs. O'Brien; "sorra one o' the poor soul but's cracked about his money." "Poor sowl, woman alive! wor you never poor yourself?"
"Had I known the like of that, little would I have campaigned in yer company! Och! 'twas an undacent deed, and a hundred confessions would barely wipe it from yer sowl. It's a pity, too, that ye've died widout absolution from a praist, sich as I've tould ye off.
Be my sowl, it's yourself that can send home the whi word, your Rev-a-ence, in a way that it won't aisly be forgotten. How-an-iver, sure hell resave the wie o me, but threwn back his dirty religion to Lucre an' left him an' it although he offered, if I'd remain wid them, to put Johnny Short out, and make me full gaoler. My Lord, says I, 'thruth's best.
Why he couldn't do it, not av he was to give his sowl and that's not his own to give, for the divil has it; and av he could, he wouldn't walk across Carrick to do them a good turn though, by Jasus, he'd be quick enough pocketing the brads. Begad, Jack, and it's cowld you're looking without the frieze; come and warm your shins, my boy, and take a draw out of Pat's pipe."
"An' prayin' again' waur enemies nor ever Joshua warstled wi'," returned his father; "for whan I think o' the rebound o' the spirit, even in this my auld age, that cudna but follow the mere liftin' o' the weicht o' debt, I feel as gien my sowl wad be tum'led aboot like a bledder, an' its auld wings tak to lang slow flaggin' strokes i' the ower thin aether o' joy.
"Be jabers, I fale like a cat on a hot griddle," said Pat Doolan, as he danced in and out of the galley, engaged in certain cooking operations on a large scale which the skipper had ordered; "I'll soon have no sowl at all, at all, to me cawbeens!"
'Be me sowl, yer honour, it's thinking that they're not so aisy to come at, makes us a bit lazy this evening! said a ragged fellow, with a grin, which was quickly followed by a hearty laugh from those around him.
'Divna ye think, father, said Kirsty, 'it wud be the surest and speediest w'y for me to gang mysel to sir Haco? ''Deed it wud be that, Kirsty! answered David. 'There's naething like the bodily presence o' the leevin sowl to gar things gang!
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