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Bring the money Saturday night, an' Maria'll wind up the sperrits an' let 'em manifest fer you, free of charge. Sorry I can't wait fer that molasses candy to git done. You might send me some by Chick. Adiew!" Myrtella stood, broom in hand, and watched the loose-jointed figure slouch down the pavement and out the back gate.
"Thank ye, Mr. Kelly, but I am afther taking a little jist now, and the head's not sthrong with me afther dancing;" she took the tumbler, however. "Faix, Mr. Kelly, but it's yourself can make a tumbler of punch with any man." "'Deed then there's no sperrits in it at all only a thrifle to take the wakeness off the water. Come, Miss Tierney, you didn't take what'd baptize a babby."
I am so old and broke down in sperrits, that you will s'cuse me from undertaking of any jobs, where I should be obleeged to pull one foot out'en the grave before I could start. I ain't ekal to hard work now, and like the rest of wore-out stock, I am only worth my grabs in old fields."
Wan week we got no less than sixty-four an' a half hours on it, an' we was all in great sperrits intirely over that, for you see, mister Potter, we're all picked men an' takes a pride in the work to say nothin' of havin' a good master.
"Now tell the jury as nearly as you can what was said respecting him there." "Why a lot of boys swore together over a noggin or two of sperrits, to put him undher the sod that's all; but shure, yer honour, Mr. Thady, that's him there," and he pointed to the dock, "was niver at Mother Mulready's." "Well, but when the boys swore to put the Captain under the sod was the prisoner's name mentioned?"
'It made no noise with its feet, and you called it a spirit, I explained hastily. 'Aa's feared o' nowt, said Geordie, 'that's livin', but when it comes to evil sperrits 'tis the Priest should tackle them. Aa winnot.
"Ain' de chil'n been in dyah?" "Dee say 'stracted folks oon hu't chil'n." "Dat ole man oon hu't nobody; he jes tame as a ole tomcat." "I wonder he ain' feared to live in dat lonesome ole house by hisself. I jes lieve stay in a graveyard at once. I ain' wonder folks say he sees sperrits in dat hanty-lookin' place." She came up by her husband's side at the suggestion. "I wonder he don' go home."
"And now, an't ye a pretty set of boys, the whole of ye, blackguards that ye are! that ye can't dhrink yer sperrits quietly, in a lone woman's house, but you must be bringing the town on her, by yer d d ructions; and av I niver saw the foot of any of ye agin, it's little I'd be grieving for ye." "Quit that, you ould hag of the divil! or I'll give you more to talk about than'll plaze you."
'She's got a queer temper of her own, said the landlord; 'but she ain't a bad sort for all that. She's clever, too: she's the only woman in Wales, they say, as can play on the crwth now since Mrs. Davies is dead, what larnt her to do it. 'The crwth? 'The old ancient Welsh fiddle what can draw the Sperrits o' Snowdon when it's played by a vargin.
She 'lows me no privileges, and if I didn't go off sometimes for a little fun, I shouldn't have no health, nor sperrets nother." "You wouldn't have any sperrits, that's certain," said Alice, laughing; "I should like to see a bottle of whisky in Aunt Phillis's cabin." Bacchus laughed outright, infinitely overcome at the suggestion. "My blessed grief!
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