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Have no fear of th' wather goats, Dugan." "Do they swim well, Mike?" asked the big mayor kindly, but with a weary heaviness he did not try to conceal. "Swim!" exclaimed Toole. "Did ye say swim, Dugan? Swim is no name for th' way they rip thro' the wather! 'Twas marvellous t' see thim. Ah, thim dongolas is wonderful animals!
"Ah!" said Darby, "had you taken a fool's advice but it can't be helped now the harm's done, I doubt; how-an'-ever, for the matther o' that, may be I have as good as Peggy in my eye for you; by the same token, as the night's could, warm your tooth, avick; there's waker wather nor this in Lough Mecall.
The saints be about us! how iver did I come forninst this say iv wather, just crapin in quiet afther a bit iv sthroll wid Mike Mahoney, me own b'y, that 's to marry me intirely, come Saint Patrick's day nixt. We laughed so we could hardly fish the poor thing up, or listen while she explained that she had slipped out of her window for a word with Mike, and found it fastened when she wanted to come back, so she had sat on the roof, trying to discover the cause of this mysterious barring out, till she was tired, when she prowled round the house till she found a cellar window unfastened, after all our care, and got in quite cleverly, she thought; but the tub was a new arrangement which she knew nothing about; and when she fell into the 'say, she was bewildered and could only howl.
None of these plans pleased Anty, for, as she remarked, "After all, Barry was her brother, and blood was thickher than wather."
Howane'er the frinds of this lad had got lave to be buryin' him dacint after he would be hanged; and me poor father, and meself, and plinty of other people were follyin'. Till they come to the ford, and when they seen the manner the wather was runnin' wild, the bearers had a notion to be turnin' back; but they made up their minds, and on they wint.
"Don't forget the stove, dear," said Sophronia, as she gave me a parting kiss; "and be sure to send a butcher, and baker, and grocer, and " Just then our domestic appeared and remarked: "Arah ye may as well get another girl; the likes ai me isn't goin' to bring wather from half-a-mile away."
For I call t' mind now that me father always varnished th' dongolas before he soaked thim overnight. 'Take no chances, Mike, he used t' say t' me, 'always varnish thim firrst. Some of thim is rubbery an' will not soak up wather, but some is spongy, an' 'tis best t' varnish one an' all of thim." "Think of that now!" exclaimed Fagan with admiration.
His friends simply said, 'Ah, now, let the Boy go on wid the conthract; shure, isn't he the dacent Boy altogether? An' what for would ye break the conthract whin he put in a dhrop of clane wather, that wouldn't hurt anybody.
"Capital, Molly," exclaimed the delighted husband when his glass was off; "I always belaved an' I belave it now more than iver that a purty woman is fit for anything. After a few more experiments like that I'll go down in shallow wather wid an aisy mind." Rooney kept his word.
John Steele leaned back; the dying embers revealed a haggard face; his eyes half closed as if from lack of sleep but immediately opened again. "You spoke of expecting me; how," he stretched out his legs, "did you know ?" "Sure, sir, by your luggage; it arrived with my master's heavier boxes that he didn't take along with him over the wather."
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