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No mail-coach road comes near here: no man on horseback could undertake to carry the letters regularly. They are carried three times a week from Outerard to Clifden, thirty-six miles, by three gossoons, or more properly bog-trotters, and very hard work it is for them.
"'T is the dev 't is beyond me to say what he is. A good man at the ropes, but a da a Dutchman for company. 'Twixt he and the bog-trotters we shipped at Cork Harbour 't was the dev 't was the scuttiest lot I ever took aboard ship." The rum was getting into the captain's tongue, and making his usual vocabulary difficult to keep under. "Have ye no artisans among the Irish?"
She manages this old house, and these stupid bog-trotters, till one fancies it a fine establishment and a first-rate household. She rides like a lion, and I'd rather hear her laugh than I'd listen to Patti. 'I'll call all that mighty like being in love. 'Do if you like but answer me my question. 'That is more than I'm able; but I'll consult my daughter.
Another matter of concern was on Mr. Duff Salter's mind his serving-man. Such an unequal servant he had never seen at times full of intelligence and snap, again as dumb as the bog-trotters of Ireland. "What was the matter with you yesterday?" asked the deaf man of Mike one day. "Me head, yer honor!" "What ails your head?" "Vare-tigo!" "How came that?" "Falling out of a ship!"
This is particularly exasperating to old families in New England, as it is notorious that the Irish come directly from the very dregs of the poverty-stricken peasantry the "bog-trotters." I was much impressed by the high standard of honor in the army and navy, and am told that it is the rarest of occurrences for a regular army officer to commit a crime or to default.
"I want," he said, sourly, "twilve good min, but I don't know that I can git them. Ye're a lot o' bog-trotters that don't know enough to heave on a capstan." "The hill we don't!" uttered a Galway man close to him. "We l'arned thot in Checa-a-go." "Ye mane," said Murphy, "that the Limerick boys tried to l'arn, but they couldn't. The wark's too hard." "Fwat's too ha-a-rd?" answered the Galway.
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