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"It's aisier said than done," replied Poll, "the poor must always look poor, and will too." "There then, are ten shillings, Poll; bestow them on that, or on any other purpose you prefer." "Thank you, Mr. M'Slime, troth in the little job I did for you at our first acquaintance I found you any way not worse than another.
" And that there's times whin he querrels wid the men " "Yes." "Well, you know Mr. Googe bein' in the same shed an' section wid Jim, I says innercent-like to Jim: 'I'm glad he's in your section, Jim, belike you can make it a bit aisier for him. "'Aisy is it? says Jim. "'Yes, aisy, says I. "'An' wot wud I be after makin' a job aisier for the likes of him? he says, grouchy-like.
"He can so," said Murty. "Wance he's gone round that thrack he can live on the fat of the land an' Billy, too. It's a dale aisier to get the condition off a horse than off Billy. No man on this earth 'ud make a black fellow see why he shouldn't have a good blow-out whenever it came his way. Only that Providence made him skinny by nature, he'd be fat as a porpoise this day.
What ud be aisier, thinks I to myself, than to kill all iv yez, report it at Skaguay for an Indian-killin', an' thin pull out for Ireland? An' so I started in to kill all iv yez, but, as Harkey was fond of sayin', I cut out too large a chunk an' fell down on the swallowin' iv it. An' that's me confession. I did me duty to the devil, an' now, God willin', I'll do me duty to God."
"You never know what you may want on a job like this, with bulkheads, maybe, to be cut through and chests broke open; get a spare sail, Misther Harman, and rowl the lot up in it so's they'll be aisier for thransport." He was excited, and the Irish in him came out when he was like that; also, as the most knowledgeable man in the business, he was taking the lead.
Ah, that's it, darlin'," persisted Mrs. Flynn, "'tis lovin' all the way makes it aisier. There's manny kinds o' love. There's lad an' lass, there's maid an' man.
He looked at her inquiringly, and she answered: "Yes, just as I expected in a few minutes." "Gentlemen," said Bob, "I am much aisier now; but I am at a loss whether to to prepared for heaven by you, Mr. Lucre, or by Father M'Cabe."
When he finished the task, strange to his clumsy hands, Larry had regained consciousness and lay trying pitifully to stifle his moans. "Does it make you feel aisier, Mouse?" Dan leaned close to the quivering lips to catch the answer. "It helps fine," Larry answered, and fainted again. "You'll be leavin' me stay wid him, sir?" Dan begged. "'T was for me he's come to this."
Well, while they war talkin', Bill turns in the way he was sleepin' into an aisier imposture; and as soon as he stopped snorin' ould Tim Donovan's courage riz agin, and says he: 'I'll go to the kitchen, says he, 'an' light a rish, says he. An' with that away wid him, an' the wife kep' workin' the beads all the time, an' before he kem back Bill was snorin' as loud as ever.
"Put half a dozen to it, and you'll be nearer; and bedad it's aisier work doin' that in your head than on your feet. Be the same token I must be leggin' it, or they'll consait I'm lost at our place." And he stepped out darkly into the veiled moonlight. "Wirrasthrew and weary on it," the old man said to himself; and then to the others, "Is it that far as he says?"
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