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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Well, it's all good, boys; but rather than show favor or affection, do you see, I'll go wid Andy, here, and take share of the hen an' bacon: but, boys, for all that, I'm fonder of the other things, you persave; and as I can't go wid you, Mat, tell your respectable mother that I'll be with her to-morrow; and with you, Larry, ma bouchal, the day afther."
Then, in a clear mezzo-soprano voice, she sang the first verse of one of the most popular Irish ballads: "O Arrah ma dheelish, the distant dudheen Lies soft in the moonlight, ma bouchal vourneen: The springing gossoons on the heather are still, And the caubeens and colleens are heard on the hill."
"There, Pether," said Father Ned, as he entered, "hook my bridle along with your own, as your hand is in God save all here! Paddy Smith, ma bouchal, put these horses in the stable, till we dry ourselves a bit Father Pether and I."
"Hullo, Misther Gray-ham!" he cried on seeing me approach, "I was jist a wondtherin' how long ye'd be acting skipper on the poop! You looked all forlorn up there, ma bouchal, loike Pat's pig whin he shaved it, thinkin' to git a crop o' wool off av its back. Aren't ye sorry now ye came to say, as I tould ye hey?" "Not a bit of it," said I stoutly.
Sure, she continued lightly, we weemin 're niver contint wid the throubles of the day. We're that curious we must be wonderin' how much more's comin'. We may boast iv bein' sensible an' sthrong, but we're alwiz pushin' our tentacles out to feel the sorrow iv to-morrow. I reckoned you'd be hatin' me in a week, ma bouchal.
You see, I had been leaning over the bows, watching the operation of letting go the anchor; and, as the ponderous mass of metal plunged into the river, it sent up a column of spray on to the forecastle that came slap into my face, drenching my clothes and wetting me almost to the skin at the same time. "Whisht, ma bouchal!" cried Tim Rooney, laughing at my sorry plight as I picked myself up.
"Barney, run an' dhrive the pig, the crathur, out of Larry Neil's phatie-field: an', Barney, whisper, a bouchal bawn, don't run too hard, Barney, for fraid you'd lose your breath. What if the crathur does get a taste o' the new phaties small blame to him for the same!" In short, whatever might have been the habits of the family, such were those of the pig.
This is the Bog of Allen you're travelling now, and they tell there's not the like of it in the three kingdoms. 'I trust there's not! 'The English, they say, has no bogs. Nothing but coal. 'Quite true. 'Erin, ma bouchal you are! first gem of the say! that's what Dan O'Connell always called you. Are you gettin' tired with the stick?
"Silence there below!" said Phaddhy to those at the lower end of the table, who were now talkative enough; "will yez whisht there till Father Con hears Briney a lesson in his Latin. Where are you, Briney? come here, ma bouchal." But Briney had absconded when he saw that the tug of war was about to commence.
Come here, Lanty; come over, acushla, to your father! Lanty, ma bouchal, what 'ill you do when you grow a man?" "'I'll buy a horse of my own to ride on, daddy. "'A horse, Lanty! and so you will, ma bouchal; but that's not it sure that's not what I mane, Lanty. What 'ill you do to the Caseys?" "'Ho, ho! the Caseys! I'll bate the blackguards wid your blackthorn, daddy!
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