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"He'll never beat you more, mammy, now?" "No, darlin'; nor he never did, barrin' when he didn't know what he was doin'." "That is when he was drunk, mammy?" "Yes, Atty dear." "Well, isn't it a great thing that he can never get drunk any more, mammy; and never beat you any more; and isn't it curious too, how he never bate me?"
Barrin' my cough, and my rupture, and this 'ere affliction" he passed his hand over his face "I 've nothing to complain of; everybody has somethink, it seems. I'm a wonder for my age, I think." Shelton, for all his pity, would have given much to laugh. "Seventy-two!" he said; "yes, a great age. You remember the country when it was very different to what it is now?"
"Will you take another sup, Darby?" inquired the young fellow in whose hands the bottle was now nearly empty; there's jist about another glass." "Indeed, an' I 'will, avillish; an' sure you'll have my blessin' for it, an' barrin' the priest's own, you couldn't have a more luckier one blessed be God for it sure that's well known.
'It's quare to think of how lonesome I am this minnit, continued he, as he blackened himself in ministering to the heaps. 'Sorra livin' sowl to spake to nearer than the captin's, barrin' the cow, an' the pigs, an' thim savidges down at the swamp.
If a man become remarkable for want of principle, they usually say "he's as great a rogue as Yallow Sam;" or, "he is the greatest sconce that ever was in the country, barrin' Yallow Sam." We now dismiss him, and request our readers, at the same time, not to suppose that we have held him up as a portrait of Irish agents in general.
Ellish, agra machree, how are you?" "God save you kindly! Faix, I'm mid-dim', I thank you, Condy: how is yourself, an' all at home?" "Devil a heartier, barrin' my father, that's touched wid a loss of appetite afther his meals ha, ha, ha!" "Musha, the dickens be an you, Condy, but you're your father's son, any way; the best company in Europe is the same man.
"'It's about second drink time in the afternoon when, havin' donned my weepons, I rides into Tucson. After leavin' my pony at the corral, I turns into the main street. It's scorchin' hot an' barrin' a dead burro thar's hardly anybody in sight. Up in front of the Oriental, as luck has it, stands Yuba and a party of doobious morals who slays hay for the gov'ment, an' is addressed as Lon Gilette.
"But the claim was abandoned. It hasn't been worked for a year," spoke up one of the long-nosed man's companions. "Then you lose out thar, too, stranger," retorted the red-shirt. "'Cause in that case, barrin' better rights, it belongs to these two boys by right o' rediscivvery. So don't argue with me; I'm a reg'lar lawyer in argufyin'."
We even believed that this magisterial tone which he assumed was meaningless until one day when he reasoned so forcibly on the rights of nations in general, his own in particular, Stupete gentes! that we could not recover from our amazement, especially when in speaking of a meeting of their Estates, about calling which there was some deliberation, and which M. de Barrin sought to delay, following in that the blunders of his predecessor, he said: 'that it was very surprising that M. de Barrin thought to prevent them from deliberating about their interests, adding in a threatening tone, 'M. de Barrin does not know the Corsicans; he will see what they can do. This expression gave the measure of his character.
Comes, boys, says he, turnin' to us, 'tie every sowl in the house, barrin' the poor sick procthor that we all feel for, bekaise you see, Misther Callaghan, in ordher to do the thing complate, we intind to have your own family spectawthers of the cure.
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