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"Mother of glory, what's this! But, wait, let me rap agin. Kathleen, Kathleen! are you widin, avourneen? Owen Alley arn't ye widin, childhre? Alley, sure I'm come back to you all!" and he rapped more loudly than before. A dark breeze swept through the bushes as he spoke, but no voice nor sound proceeded from the house; all was still as death within.
Sure the Lord will sind me an' the childhre a bit an' sup some way else glory to his name! beside a lock of praties in the corner o' the bag here, that'll do us for this day, any way." The bargain is immediately struck, and the poor tenant is glad to purchase, even from a beggar, his stone of meal, in consequence of getting it a few pence under market price.
"Tied in a knot intirely wid the rheumatism and it's tin days I'm working for him and the childhre, and my heart's broke against gravel and stone intirely. I wish it was pratees we are digging, I'd maybe dig up a dinner any way." "There is no difficulty, the secret is to look in the right place." "Ay! ay! take your divairsion, ye sly rogue! I wish ye had my five childhre." "Oh! you spiteful cat!"
Tom was a well-hearted, friendly lad, and thinking that Sally, who bore a good name for being such a clane sarvint, would make a good wife, he lent Larry two guineas, which along with two more that Sally's aunt, who had no childhre of her own, gave her, enabled them to over their difficulties and get married.
It may be very well to tell a lie to them that can bear it to a rich bodagh, or his proud lady of a wife although it's a mean thing even to them; but to tell a lie to that heartbroken woman and her poor childhre her childhre aren't they her own? an' who would spake for them if she wouldn't. If every one treated the poor that way, what would become of them?
Rosha, put your cloak about you, and let us go down to the agint, or clerk, or whatsomever he is sure, that makes no maxin anyhow; I suppose he has power to give a resate. Jemmy, go to bed again, you're pale, poor bouchal; and, childhre, ye crathurs ye, the cows won't be taken from ye this bout. Come, in the name of God, let us go, and see-everything rightified at once hut, tut come."
Lie in to the liquor, I say; don't spare it. Here, Mike, send us up another gallon, Faith, we'll make a night of it. 'Och, three maidens a milkin' did go An' three maidens a milkin' did go; An' the winds they blew high An' the winds they blew low, An' they dashed their milkin' pails to an' fro. All your healths, childhre! Neighbors, all your healths! don't spare what's before ye.
"But I wonder your wife permits so filthy an animal to have access to her rooms in this manner." "Filthy!" replied Mrs. Purcel, who felt herself called upon to defend the character of the pig, as well as her own, "why, one would think, sir, that any crathur that's among Christyen childhre, like one o' themselves, couldn't be filthy.
In the corner of the garden were a few stalks of tansy "to kill the thievin' worms in the childhre, the crathurs," together with a little Rose-noble, Solomon's Seal, and Bu-gloss, each for some medicinal purpose. The "lime wather" Mrs.
"Kathleen," he observed to his wife, one day, about a, year or more after they had begun to beg; "Kathleen, I have been turnin' it in my mind, that some of these childhre might sthrive to earn their bit an' sup, an' their little coverin' of clo'es, poor things. We might put them to herd cows in the summer, an' the girshas to somethin' else in the farmers' house. What do you think, asthore?"