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"What brings you here?" was the question. "Throth, thin, and I think I might betther ax what brings you here, right in the way o' my nor-aist coorse." "Where do you come from?" "From Kinsale; and you didn't come from a betther place, I go bail." "Where are you bound to?" "To Fingal." "Fingal, where's Fingal?" "Why then, ain't you ashamed o' yourself an' not to know where Fingal is?"
"Throth," said Darby, after shaking hands with the priest and greeting the rest of the company, "the same boy no one could spake ill of; and, although we and his people were not upon the best footin', still the sarra one o' me but always gave him his due." "Indeed, I believe you, Darby," said his father; "but are you comfortable? Draw your chair nearer the fire the evenin's gettin' cowld."
"Well, sir, the divil resa've the bit of it he'd gi' me; and so, with that, 'The curse o' the hungry an you, you ould neygarly villain, says I; 'the back o' my hand and the sowl o' my foot to you, that you may want a gridiron yourself yit, says I. And with that I left them there, sir, and kem away; and, in throth, it's often sense that I thought that it was remarkable."
"Throth, then, I'm sorry for that," said Toal, "for she's a woman I don't like; an' I now say beforehand, that devil a traneen she'll be the betther of me, Art." "Settle that," replied Art, "between you; at all events, be ready on Sunday next the christenin's fixed for it."
"O, there you are, my darlint ould head! An' where's the head like o' you? Throth, it's little I thought I'd ever set eyes an your good-looking faytures agin. But God's good!"
"Darby, I ax your pardon over agin for what came between us; and I see now betther than I did, that the fault of it was more mine nor yours. You'll be down surely about five o'clock?" "I must go and take this beard off o' me, and clane myself; and I may as well do that now: but I'll be down, never fear." "In throth the boy was always bright! ha, ha, ha! and he sobered Dixon?"
Throth, myself thought that if that's the way they're obliged to go, that it's with a great deal of fear and thrimblin' they find it out."
"Is the scoundrel honest, or a rogue?" "Throth it's more than I'm able to tell your honor, sir. I don't know much about him. Some spakes well, and some spakes ill of him just like his neighbors ahem!" "Ay, an' that's all you can say of him? but if he was here, I could soon ascertain what stuff he's made of, and what kind of a hearing he ought to get.
Don't let out on yourself, man alive, unless you have the face to be proud of your acquaintance, which in throth is more than anyone, barrin' the same set, could be of you." "Well, well," retorted the pedlar, "sure blood alive, as we're all of the same connection, let us not quarrel now, but sarve another if we can. Go an' tell the old blackguard I want to see him about business."
"Well, begad, it's myself that would, Mogue, but you see, as I'm out for a while, an' so near my poor mother's, throth I'll slip over and see how she is, the crature; only for that, Mogue, I'd lighten you of the shootin' things wid a heart an' a half." "But sure you can see your poor mother, the crature, any other evenin'? Do come back, Jerry, an' I'll do twiste as much for you agin.
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