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"Oi hed a paice ov shamrock, which I tuk out ov the fairy ring, sure, at Glasnevin, under me hid last noight whin Oi wor shlapin', an' me drame's bound fur to come thrue!" Strangely enough, so it turned out, too.
"Oh," says my father, "I'm only a foolish, ignorant poor man," says he. "Listen to me now, Terence Neil," says he: "I was always a good masther to Pathrick Neil, your grandfather," says he. "'Tis thrue for your honour," says my father. "And, moreover, I think I was always a sober, riglar gintleman," says the squire.
"Them's the quartermaster's orders, sir. Lieutenant Blake got permission to buy the horse. It's Dandy, sir, but he said as how it was yours, and you'd sign the papers directly you got back. The forage was issued on that understanding." "Shure it's all thrue, sir," said Hogan. "Dandy was bought last week, sir, and I thought as how Mr. Blake had told you." Ray said no word more.
'But afther this performince is over me an' the Ghost 'll trample the tripes out av you, Terence, wid your ass's bray! An' that's how I come to know about Hamlut. Eyah! Those days, those days! Did you iver have onendin' devilmint an' nothin' to pay for it in your life, sorr?" "Never, without having to pay," I said. "That's thrue!
"Who?" said Biddy; "why, I dunna, save but no, it couldn't." "Faix but it could, though," said Ned, mistaking her, as the matter turned out. "Why, vick na hoiah, no! Connor O'Donovan back! Oh! no, no, Ned; that 'ud be too good news to be thrue." The honest lad shook his head with an expression of regret that could not be mistaken as the exponent of a sterling heart.
"'That's thrue, sez he, pulling his moustache; 'but I do not believe that you, for all your lip, was in that business. "'Sargint, sez I, 'I cud hammer the life out av a man in ten minuts wid my fistes if that man dishpleased me; for I am a good sodger, an' I will be threated as such, an' whoile my fistes are my own they're strong enough for all work I have to do.
"Faith, it's a thrue as gospel, your honor. Says I, 'Ellish, you beauty'" "I thought," observed Mr. Eccles, "that she sometimes drew the long bow, Peter." "Oh, murdher alive, sir, it was only in regard of her crassin' in an' whippin' the word out o' my mouth, that I wanted to take a rise out of her. Oh, bedad, sir, no; the crathur's thruth to the backbone, an' farther if I'd say it."
Many of them were, therefore, nearly as much the dupes of the delusions that proceeded from their own heated imaginations as the ignorant people who looked upon them as oracles; for we know that nothing at all events so much generates imposture as credulity. "Indeed, Donnel," replied Sullivan, "what you say is unfortunately too thrue.
He got me to be interpreter to an owld man that would spake wid him over on Innishmair, an' the owld chap wos tellin' his throubles. So afther a bit, the young fellow says, says he, "''Tis Home Rule ye want, says he. "'No, says the owld chap, shakin' his head, 'tis my dinner I want, says he. "An' that young fellow was mad whin I thranslated it. But 'twas thrue, ivery word iv it.
I can bare remimber tellin' him that his mouth opened endways like the mouth av a skate, which was thrue afther Learoyd had handled ut; an' I clear remimber his takin' no manner nor matter av offence, but givin' me a big dhrink of beer. Twas the beer did the thrick, for I crawled back into the palanquin, steppin' on me right ear wid me left foot, an' thin slept like the dead.
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