checa-a-go

Updated: May 20, 2025

"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.

Morgan Robertson - The Grain Ship