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His reply was almost immediate, and was conveyed in the old martial air of 'Hey, Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver. I ran over the words, and fixed on the following stanza, as most applicable to my circumstances: Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush; We'll over the Border and give them a brush; There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour, Hey, Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver.
On the contrary, I am sorry he is running his head into a fever, said Guy, pretending to be provoking. 'I don't want you to be glad of that, I only want you to be glad he is not sitting here towering over us. Guy smiled, and began to whistle 'Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush! And turned the thistles of a curse To types beneficent.
Nelly Keenan made the last; and although there was a full breadth more in it nor this, bad cess to the one of her but spoiled it on me; it was ever so much too short in the body, and too tight in the sleeves, and then I had no step at all at all. "'The sprush bonnet is exactly the fit for the gown, observed Katty; 'the black and the white's jist the cut how many yards had you, Rose?
"'What was it Kitty, ahagur? asked her companion with mighty great curiosity. "'Why, nothing less, indeed, nor Rose Cullenan decked out in a white muslin gown, and a black sprush bonnet, tied under her chin wid a silk ribbon, no less; but what killed us out and out was you wouldn't guess? "'Arrah, how could I guess, woman alive?
"'Rose, darling, said Peggy, 'that's a great beauty, and shows off your complexion all to pieces; you have no notion how well you look in it and the sprush. "In a few minutes after this her namesake, Rose Galh O'Hallaghan, came towards the chapel, in society with her father, mother, and her two sisters.
I must set now to a second epistle of Malachi to the Athenians. If I can but get the sulky Scottish spirit set up, the devil won't turn them. "Cock up your beaver, and cock it fu' sprush; We'll over the Border, and give them a brush; There's somebody there we'll teach better behaviour; Hey, Johnnie lad, cock up your beaver." February 26.
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