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"And I," said the third, "I have got a bottle of bad gin from the Cat and Cabbage-stump." "How did you manage it?" "Why, this way. I went in, and had some beer, and you know I can give a long yarn when I want; but it wants only a little care to deceive these knowing countrymen, so I talked and talked, until they got quite chatty, and then I put the gin in my pocket." "Good."
In his left hand he held an old overgrown greasy foul cap, such as your scald-pated fellows wear, and in the right a huge cabbage-stump. As soon as he saw me he was overjoyed, and bawled out to me, What cheer, ho? How dost like me now? I have 'em, old boy, I have 'em; we'll make 'em when thou'rt come back. But pray, father, said I, whence come you? Whither are you bound? What's your lading?
Rose, and sat trying to think of a means of enlightening his friend without undue loss of modesty. "She ain't a bit like her poor mother," mused Mr. Cray. "No, she don't get her looks from her," assented the other. "It's one o' them things you can't account for," said Mr. Cray, who was very tired of the subject; "it's just like seeing a beautiful flower blooming on an old cabbage-stump."
Rose, and sat trying to think of a means of enlightening his friend without undue loss of modesty. "She ain't a bit like her poor mother," mused Mr. Cray. "No, she don't get her looks from her," assented the other. "It's one o' them things you can't account for," said Mr. Cray, who was very tired of the subject; "it's just like seeing a beautiful flower blooming on an old cabbage-stump."
"Where do you live, good-wyf, and how is the minister?" he said to the witch when he met her on the high-road, as it came out in the trial. You have burnt all the witches. In Ireland we have left them alone. To be sure, the "loyal minority" knocked out the eye of one with a cabbage-stump on the 31st of March, 1711, in the town of Carrickfergus. But then the "loyal minority" is half Scottish.
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