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You threwn a jug at her the last day you war out, an' hot the poor ould Potticary as he was passin'. You see I hard that, though you kept it close from me! ha, ha, ha!" "Ha, ha, ha! why you'd split if you had seen the crathur whin he fell into Pether White's brogue-creels, wid his heels up. But what right had she to be sthrivin' to bring away my customers afore my face?
But ah, mother, I'm afeard;" and as the noble girl spoke, the tears gushed to her eyes "'It's my last act for you, she whispered to me, on that night when the house was surrounded by villains 'I know what you risked for me in the shed; I know it, dear Mave, an' I'm now sthrivin' to pay back my debt to you. Oh, mother!" she exclaimed, "where where could one look for the like of her! an' yet how little does the world know about her goodness, or her greatness, I may say.
"Well," observed Teddy, "let us hear no more about them; it's all settled that we are to set up in Glen Dearg above again for this Hycy, who's sthrivin' to turn the penny where he can." "It is," said Bat; "an', to-morrow night, let us bring the things up this election will sarve us at any rate but who will come in?"
You might as well be pursuadin' the birds agin flying, or sthrivin' to coax the stars out iv the sky into your hat, as be talking common sinse to them that's fairly bothered and burstin' wid love. There's nothin' like it. The toothache an' cholic together id compose you betther for an argyment than itself. It leaves you fit for nothin' bud nansinse.
* Herb-Men of Darby's cast were often in the habit of collecting rare medicinal plants for the apothecaries; and not bad botanists some of them were. "Darby, achora," said Mrs. Reillaghan, "don't crass the gintleman, an' him sthrivin' to do his best. Here, Paddy Gormly, bring some wather till the docthor washes his hands."
"Maybe, after this happenin', some she could name might have the wit to believe what other people tould thim, who knew bitter than to be thinkin' to feed a misfortnit crathur of an ould cow on sand and sayweed as if she was a sayl or a saygull, and it a scandal to the place to behould her foostherin' along down there wid the waves' edges slitherin' up to her nose, and she sthrivin' to graze, and the slippery stones fit to break her neck."
Sorra sup of it over I keep for my own use at all, barrin' when I take a touch o' configuration in my bowels, or, may be, when I'm too long at my prayers; for, God help me, sure I'm but sthrivin', wid the help o' one thing an' another, to work out my salvation as well as I can!
"The sorra one o' me seen him," replied Paddy: "I was lookin' at his Reverence, sthrivin' to know what he was sayin'." "Pether, did you?" another inquired. "Me! I never seen a stim of him till he was standin' alone on the flure! Sure, when he didn't see or find himself goin', how could another see him?"
So, putting his head through the hole, he called down to the colonel: 'Hillo, neighbour! says he. The colonel looked up, and grew as white as a sheet, when he seen he was found out, and the red eyes starin' down at him through the hole. 'Musha, bad luck to your impudence! says Owld Nick: 'it is sthrivin' to chate me you are, says he, 'you villain!
He was a sthrivin' man, an' he had really no politics, an' only wanted to get lave to work his land, an' earn his bit an' sup. "He had two sthrappin' daughters, as nice, dacent young girls as ye'd see in a summer's day.
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