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"It's the maxim of the world, that when a man is down, down with him; but when a man goes down through his own fault, he finds very little mercy from any one. Larry might go to fifty fairs before he'd meet any one now to thrate him; instead of that, when he'd make up to them, they'd turn away, or give him the cowld shoulder.
"Very well," the rest replied; "try that Ned; give it the best and ginteelest grammar you have, and maybe it may thrate us dacent." Now it so happened that, in my schoolboy days, I had joined a class of young fellows who were learning what is called the "Sarvin' of Mass" and had impressed it so accurately on a pretty retentive memory, that I never forgot it.
The running for the bottle will be a good excuse, says he, 'so I think we had better move home before they go too far in the drink. "Well, any way, there was truth in this; so, accordingly, the reckoning was ped, and, as this was the thrate of the weddiners to the bride and bridegroom, every one of the men clubbed his share, but neither I nor the girls anything. Ha ha ha! Am I alive at all?
My maxim always is to buy dear and sell chape, for the sake o' the fair sect. Come, gintlemen, Cannie Soogah's pack is a faist for the leedies hem I mane a feest for the ladies hillo ha! ha! ha! there's a touch of Buck English himself for you. Well, of coorse, what's a faist for the ladies must surely be a thrate to the gintlemen."
'An' wheer's he to come through? says I. 'Learoyd, my man, he sings out, 'you're a pretty man av your inches an' a good comrade, but your head is made av duff. Isn't our friend Orth'ris a Taxidermist, an' a rale artist wid his nimble white fingers? An' what's a Taxidermist but a man who can thrate shkins?
"It's always an unpleasant thing for a body to go to a fair or market without anything in their pocket; accordingly, if money was in the house, he'd take some of it with him, for fraid that any friend or acquaintance might thrate him; and then it would be a poor, mane-spirited thing, he would say, to take another man's thrate, without giving one for it.
"Come, jinteels," said he, "spare nothing here there's lashings of every thing; thrate yourselves dacent, and don't be saying tomorrow or next day, that ever my father's son was nagerly. Death alive, Father Con, what are you doin'? Why, then, bad manners to me if that'll sarve, any how." "Phaddhy," replied Father Con, "I assure you I have done my duty."
Fenton, you they say a gintleman born, and to thrate one of your own rank a gintleman that befriended you as he did, and put a daicint shoot of clo'es on your miserable carcase; when you know that before he did it, if the wind was blowing from the thirty-two points of the compass, you had an openin' for every point, if they wor double the number.
"Bartle," said the other, "you wor a little soft last night; or rather a good deal so." "Faith, no doubt o' that but when a man meets an old acquaintance or two, they don't like to refuse a thrate. I fell in wid three or four boys all friends o' mine, an' we had a sup on account o' what's expected."
For unless we thrate them Fathers liberally to a handsome allowance ov thropes and figures they'd set up heresy at onc't, so they would." "It's thru for you," says the Pope; "the figures ov spache is the pillars ov the Church." "Bedad," says his Riv'rence, "I dunna what we'd do widout them at all."
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