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"Why, thin, that's not so bad, any how what's your name?" "Dick, sir." "Now, Dick, ma bouchal, isn't it true that you can dance a horn-pipe?" "Yes, sir." "Here, Larry Brady, take the door off the hinges, an' lay it down on the flure, till Dick Malone dances the Humors of Glynn: silence, boys, not a word; but just keep lookin' an."
"'And may worse never happen you, Jack, my bouchal, says the dog, putting in his tongue, then wagging his tail, and houlding out his paw to shake hands with Jack. "'Gintlemen, says Jack, never minding to give the dog his hand, bekase he heard it wasn't safe to touch the likes of him 'Gintlemen, says he, 'ye're sitting far from the fire this frosty night.
Any one who did not attend that meeting would be a marked man, but if it had been limited to people who know the use of soap it would necessarily have been small, even for the Tuam Town Hall." Everywhere in Connaught I hear the people saying, "When you want to roast an Irishman you can always find another Irishman to turn the spit." Thrue for ye, ma bouchal! Ballina, June 10th. No. 34.
"'And I'd be proud of the connection, says my father-in-law, 'but you see, these girls won't look much to what you or I'll say, in choosin' a husband for themselves. How-and-iver, not making little of your nevvy, Father Michael, I say he's not to be compared with that same bouchal sitting beside Mary there.
"'Where's the rascally O'Callaghan that will place his toe or his shillely on this frieze? 'Is there no blackguard O'Hallaghan jist to look crucked at the coat of an O'Callaghan, or say black's the white of his eye? "'Troth and there is, Ned, avourneen, that same on the sod here. "'Is that Barney? "'The same, Ned, ma bouchal; and how is your mother's son, Ned?
"James," said the schoolmaster, "you are goin' to Munsther, an' I can say that I have travelled it from end to end, not to a bad purpose, I hope hem! Well, a bouchal, there are hard days and nights before you, so keep a firm heart.
"Thare now! Sure, an' that job's done wid anyhow for this v'yge, plaize the pigs, ma bouchal!" exclaimed the boatswain with a jolly laugh, after seeing the main-hatchway covered and battened down, and a tarpaulin spread over it to make all snug, gazing round with an air of proud satisfaction, as he slowly made his way up the poop ladder again and came up to where I was standing by the rail looking over.
"Who's this?" exclaimed Frank: "eh! why, Darby More, you sullin' thief o' the world, is this you?" "Ay, indeed; an' you're goin' down to Peggy's?" said the the other, pointing significantly towards Peggy Gartland's house. "Well, man, what's the harm? She may get worse, that is, hopin' still that you'll mend your manners, a bouchal: but isn't your nose out o' joint there, Frank, darlin'?"
"This would produce another laugh from the father, who would again kiss and shake hands with his son, for these early manifestations of his own spirit. "'Lanty, ma bouchal, he would say, 'thank God, you're not a Magrath; 'tis you that's a Kelly, every blessed inch of you! and if you turn out as good a buillagh balthah as your father afore you, I'll be contint, avour-neen!
Their grief was exclamatory and full of horror: consisting of prolonged shrieks on the part of the women, and frantic howlings on that of the men. The only words they uttered were his name, with epithets and ejaculations. Oh a Vichaul dheelish a Vichaul dheelish a bouchal bane machree wuil thu marra wuil thu marra?
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