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Th' man that sinds seeds to his constitooents lasts longer thin th' wan that sinds thim flowers iv iloquence, an' though th' hand iv Gawd may be in th' Ph'lippeen question, it hasn't interfered up to date in th' sergeant-at-arms question.

I'll sit here by him a while with the fan and relieve you. Where is Ralph?" "He's not come yet, ma'am." "Why, Mrs. Maloney, are you sure? Is it possible that anything has happened to him?" "To shpake the trut', ma'am, I'm a bit worried about 'im meself. But they said to me partic'ler, as how ivery man o' thim got out o' the mine befoor the carriage fell.

Casey, looking down upon him, noted the convulsive movements of his clenched hands, and said with a laugh: 'Sure, 'twould be sorrer an' torinint fer that same Shine if you laid thim hands on him now, me boy. Harry started to his feet and commenced to fondle the trooper's horse, fearing to follow the train of thought that had possessed him lest he should betray himself.

"So," said the latter on their way home, "thim boys is fixed in gaol for the next twelve months any way. Tim warn't thinking he'd get lodgings for nothing so long, when he went up to widow Smith's there at Loch Sheen."

"Down with the bloody backs!" he cried. "Drive thim into the bay." The officers were forced to return to their boats and, tired as they were, pull down the coast to Baltimore. Next morning, Fernando rose early and, after breakfast, went out alone to look about the village. It was located in a picturesque and beautiful spot. On the East was the broad bay and sea.

'Twas all joyous battle to me, and now, as I sit here on velvet with only to snap me fingers for anything I want, I look back at thim fierce old times with a sneaking kind o' wish to live 'em all over again. Bertie knows me weakness. I would talk forever did she lave me go on; but 'tis no blame to her it was a cruel, bad, careless life."

Ye've heard the owld song: "'Oh, a taste av salt an' a plante av praties, An a dhrop av whiskey to wash thim down, An' a tasty dhuidheen to help digistion That's the fashion in Limerick town."

"Stop yer palaver an' let's haave a story ov th' war wi' th' naygars in Egypt," Mrs. Hurll said. "Aye, that's right," one of the Gainer boys said. "Tell us what th' queen give ye a medal fur!" They wanted a story of blood, so I smeared the tale red. When I finished Anna said, "Now tell thim, dear, what ye tuk th' shillin' fur!" "You tell them, mother."

I knows what we can do, and I knows what they can do: breed a hoss in Ireland, train him in the North of England, and run him in the South; and he'll do your work for you, and win your money, steady and shure." "And why not run in the North, too?" "They're too 'cute, my lord: they like to pick up the crumbs themselves small blame to thim in that matther.

Four Christyan Brothers leaped most crooly at four Saint Aloysiuses, an' rolled thim. Th' cap'n iv th' Saint Aloysiuses he took th' cap'n iv th' Christyan Brothers be th' leg, an' he pounded th' pile with him as I've seen a section hand tamp th' thrack. All this time young Dorgan was standin' back, takin' no hand in th' affray.