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"Oh, tare an' ouns!" says he unto himself, "an' must I sit up all night, and that ould vagabone of a sperit, glory be to God," says he, "serenadin' through the house, an' doin' all sorts iv mischief?" However, there was no gettin' aff, and so he put a bould face on it, an' he went up at nightfall with a bottle of pottieen, and another of holy wather.
"Not maining to make little ov the claret, your Holiness," says his Riv'rence, "I would prefir some hot wather and sugar, wid a glass ov spirits through it, if convanient." "Hand me over the bottle of brandy," says the Pope to his head butler, "and fetch up the materi'ls," says he. "Ah, then, your Holiness," says his Riv'rence, mighty eager, "maybe you'd have a dhrop ov the native in your cellar?
"'Michael' needed a bath, so I took him down to the say-shore an' gave him one. He loves the wather, he does." "Are there no SERVANTS?" "There ARE sure." "Isn't that THEIR province?" "Mebbe. But they hate 'Michael' and I hate THEM. I wouldn't let them touch him." "In other words you WILFULLY disobeyed me?" "I did." "Is this the way MY NIECE should behave?" "Mebbe not.
Do ye think we could persuade thim t' come out whin we wanted t' come home? Not thim, Dugan! 'Twas all me an' Fagan could do t' pull thim out by main force, an' th' minute we let go of thim, back they wint into th' wather. 'Twas pitiful t' hear th' way they bleated t' be let back into th' wather agin, Dugan, so we let thim stay in for th' night."
Toole and the Keeper of the Water Goats stole silently from the room and out into the street. Fagan was the first to speak. "How was we t' know thim dongolas would soak in wather that way, Toole?" he said defensively. "How was we t' know they was not th' wather-proof kind of dongolas?" The little alderman from the Fourth Ward walked silently by the Keeper's side.
'Nurse won't dare to put us in cells after to-day, said Douglas wrathfully; 'she is just doing it to pretend to Uncle Harry that we're always in disgrace; and I hate her! 'And I was going down to the brook to get some forget-me-nots, to put in Uncle Harry's room, said Molly plaintively. 'It's wather nice being punished all together, said Bobby, who always dreaded being left alone.
'Move aff, says she, 'an' don't be inthrudin' an the fire, says she. Well, he kept never mindin', an' didn't let an' to hear a word she was sayin', so she kim over an' she had a spoon in her hand, an' she took jist the smallest taste in life iv the boilin' wather out iv the pot, an' she dhropped it down an his shins, an' with that he let a roar you'd think the roof id fly aff iv the house.
"In troth and he was," said Tom, "although he didn't desarve it from him when he was alive;* seeing he neglected many a good advice that Tom and his dacent woman of a wife often gave him; for all that, blood is thicker than wather and it's he that waked and berried him dacently; by the same token that there was both full and plenty of the best over him: and everything, as far as Tom was consarned, dacint and creditable about the place."
"Biddy," said Barney, his mind still wandering, and his eyes still fixed on the fire "Biddy, darlin', will you hand me that de-canther agin; I find I'm not aquil to it. Heaven presarve us! Heaven presarve us! that's it; now hand me the wather, like an angel out of heaven, as you are, Bid. Ah, glory be to goodness, but that's refreshin', especially afther sich a day sich a day!
An' yet I wud be mortial sorry if ye did not any time though I am ould enough to know betther. But I will do penance. I will take a dhrink av wather." Ortheris squeaked shrilly. The butler of the Forest bungalow was standing near the railings with a basket, uncertain how to clamber down to the pontoon.
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