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There he sung ore rotundo, throwing forth an astonishing tide of voice; whilst little Dick, a thin, pale-faced urchin, with his head, from which the hair stood erect, sunk between his hollow shoulders, was performing prodigious feats of agility. "What's the matter? what's the matter?" said the gentlemen. "Good morning, Mr. Kavanagh!" Tooral lol, lol
"Yes," said another; "but he desarves credit for travelin' from Clansallagh to Findramore, widout layin' a foot to the ground "'Wan day wid Captain Whiskey I wrastled a fall, But faith I was no match for the captain at all But faith I was no match for the captain at all, Though the landlady's measures they were damnable small. Tooral, looral, looral lorral lido.
With her tooral ooral, etc.;" or, again: "The young curate smiled grimly as he listened to his great-grandmother's last words. He knew only too well that since Phogg's discovery of the hereditary hairiness of goats religion stood on a very different basis from that which it had occupied in his childhood. With his rumpty-iddity, rumpty-iddity;" and so on.
Can you?" he turned to me brusquely. It was an awful moment. I had been drinking heavily too, but I resolved to succeed. "I'm King of Trooly-rooly " I murmured; but I could not master it I staggered and followed the King under the table. "Is there no one here," roared Spitz, "who can shave thish dynasty, and shay 'Tooral ? No! it! I mean 'Trularlooral " but he, too, lurched hopelessly forward.
She began to sing, too, which was still more painful to hear than her angry words, for she mixed everything up together the oremus of a mass with refrains of loose songs heard in the harbour from wandering sailors. But ri too loo! ri tooral loo! She always stopped short, while her eyes opened wide with a lifeless expression, like those dying flames that suddenly flash out before fading away.
Brimberly sang blithely on: "As Dinah was a-walking in her garden one day, Her father came to her and thus he did say: 'Come wed yourself, Dinah, to your nearest of kin, Or you shan't have the benefit of one single pin!" "Ri tooral ri too " Here Mr. Jenkins, chancing to catch sight of that unobtrusive figure, let fall his banjo with a clatter, whereupon Mr.
"Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer, List old ladies o'er your tea, At description Tom's a tailor, When he is compared to me. Tooral looral loo." "Attend brevity is the soul of wit, ahem. Listen how I shall crush all your lengthy yam into an eggshell.
"Who'll sing, sir? for I can't be afther dancin' a step widout the music." "Boys, which of yez'll sing for Dick? I say, boys, will none of yez give Dick the Harmony? Well, come, Dick, I'll sing for you myself: "Tooral lol, lorral lol, lorral lol, lorral, lol Toldherol, lorral lol, lorral lol, lol," etc., etc.
Old Adam was laid in a slumber, And there he lost part of his side; And when he awoke in great wonder He beyeld his beyeautiful bride. With my fol-de-rol, tooral "Why, whatever's wrong with 'ee all? You're as melancholy as a passel of gib-cats." And with that he caught the eye of a man seated opposite, and slewed slowly round to the door.
I like to think of my ancestors, middle-aged or venerable gentlemen, all sitting round a table and explaining that they would never forget old days or friends with a rumpty-iddity-iddity, or letting it be known that they would die for England's glory with their tooral ooral, etc. I greatly prefer Mr. Richard Swiveller to Mr. Stanley Ortheris.
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