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This was a melancholy situation, and his friends pitied him accordingly. "Don't be cast down, Neal," said they; "your friends feel for you, poor fellow." "Divil carry my frinds," replied Neal; "sure, there's not one o' yez frindly enough to be my inimy. Tare an' ouns! what'll I do? I'm blue-mowlded for want of a batin'!"
"Looker here, yeou," cried Sile; "I've got some money I won batin' with you, and, by thut-ter! you'll find I ain't afraid to give ye all the chance you want on that Wyndham game. If you've really got twenty-five dollars, mebbe we can raise a pool, same as we done before, and cover the whole of it. I'll put in my share anyhaow. Who's the next feller?" "I am!" "Count me in!" "I'm another!"
Joynt it seems, in a wild freak, fired his gun through the door of the cabin occupied by Mistress Murphy, who with her children is now about to join her husband in America. Instead of being frightened the courageous matron opened the door, issued therefrom armed with a fire-shovel and administered to the delinquent "the greatest batin' begorra" my informant had ever heard of.
"Why, I'm not such a hare as yourself," replied his rival, "nor such a great hand at batin' the absent ha, ha, ha!" "Bravo, Misther Connell that's a leveller; come, Misther Costigan, bedad, if you don't answer that you're bate." "By this and by that, man alive, if you don't mend your manners, maybe I'd make it betther for you to be absent also.
Shure it's Clancy, sir, dhrunk, sir, and runnin' round the garrison, and batin' me, sir." "Take him to the guard-house, Mr. Foster," was the stern, sudden order. "Not a word, Clancy," as the man strove to speak. "Off with him; and if he gives you any trouble, send for me." And as the poor fellow was led away, silence fell upon the group. Mrs.
"Why, sir, you ax'd for a bootjack, sure, and I brought you the best I had and it's not my fault it's bruk, so it is, for it wasn't me bruk it, but Biddy batin' the cock." "Beating the cock!" repeated the little man in surprise. "Bless me! beat a cock with a bootjack! what savages!"
This was a melancholy situation, and his friends pitied him accordingly. "Don't bo cast down, Neal," said they, "your friends feel for you, poor fellow." "Divil carry my frinds," replied Neal, "sure there's not one o' yez frindly enough to be my inimy. Tare-an'-ounze! what'll I do? I'm blue-rhowlded for want of a batin'!"
In these heart-burnings about the good things of this world, he was treated with uncommon forbearance: in his owner he always had a friend, from whom, when he grunted out his appeal to him, he was certain of receiving redress: "Barney, behave, avick: lay down the potstick, an' don't be batin' the pig, the crathur."
Here he was seized from behind by the throat, and hurled round heavily to the ground. 'Why, then, you spalpeen of an owdacious vagabone, it's well but I smash every bone in yer skin. Of all the impudence I ever heerd in my whole life, you bate it out, clear and clane! O, murther, if I could only give you the batin' I'd like, only maybe the master 'ud be vexed! And Mr.
The boy accordingly went out "Why," said Corcoran, in his absence, "if ever there was a phanix, and that boy will be the bird an Irish phanix he will be, a Rara avis in terris, nigroque simillima cygno! There's no batin' him at anything he undher-takes. Why, there's thim that are makin' good bread by their larnin', that couldn't resolve that; and you all saw how he did it widout the book!
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