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'Wor takin' raycraytion, All by the Baltic Say!" "Help the ould woman there." "Queen o' Patriots pray for us! St. Abraham go to the divil, you bosthoon; is it crushin' my sore leg you are? St. Abraham pray for us! St. Isinglass, pray for us! St. Jonathan, musha, I wisht you wor in America, honest man, instid o' twistin' my arm like a gad f St.
She was soon induced to get up and dress herself, to put on her cloak and bonnet, and hurry off with the widow, before the people of Dunmore should be up to look at her going through the town to the inn; while Biddy was left to pack up such things as were necessary for her mistress' use, and enjoined to hurry down with them to the inn as quick as she could; for, as the widow said, "there war no use in letting every idle bosthoon in the place see her crossing with a lot of baggage, and set them all asking the where and the why and the wherefore; though, for the matther of that, they'd all hear it soon enough."
"But are you ladin' a dacenter or a more becominer life?" "Why, I think, widout doubt, that it's more becominer to walk about like a gintleman, nor to be workin' like a slave." "Gintleman! Musha, is it to the fair you're bringin' yourself? Why, you great big bosthoon, isn't it both a sin an' a shame to see you sailin' about among the neighbors, like a sthray turkey, widout a hand's turn to do?
"Who is there?" asked the old woman who kept the cottage. "Open the door instantly," said the sheriff, "or we shall smash it in." "No, I won't," she replied; "no, I won't, you bosthoon, whoever you are. I never did nothin' agin the laws, bad luck to them, and I won't open my door to any strolling vagabone like you."
People declared that "they'd never have thought he'd take and do such a thing, for though he might ha' been a quare sort of bosthoon, he was always dacint and paiceable." But cancelled praise is the bitterest of blame; and they added that "it was rael outrageous of him to go do murdher on the likes of Denis O'Meara, and no credit to Lisconnel for it to be happenin' him there.
"Did you ever hear about one Fin M'Cool who was a great buffer in his day, and how his wife put the trick upon a big bosthoon of a giant that came down from Munster to bother Fin? Did you ever hear that, sir?" "No; neither do I wish to hear it just now." "Nor the song of Beal Derg O'Donnel, sir, nor the 'Fairy River, nor 'the Life and Adventures of Larry Dorneen's Ass, plaise your reverence."
Oh, patther an' ave you dirty bosthoon blessed angels and holy marthyrs! kneelin' there in the middle o' the flure as if nothing happened look down on me this day, a poor vartuous dissolute woman! Oh, you disgrace to me and all belonging to you, and is it the impidence to ask my blessin' you have, when it's a whippin' at the cart's tail you ought to get, you shameless scapegrace?"
'I'd back one man from Corkshire To bate ten more from Yorkshire: Kerrymen Agin Derrymen, And Munster agin creation, Wirrasthrue! 'tis a pity we aren't a nation! Here he slackened his pace as we passed a small bosthoon driving a donkey, to call out facetiously, "Be good to your little brother, achree!" "We must be very near Coolkilla House by this time," said Francesca.
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