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"We'll know more about it after we've tried her out with the Lucy Foster or the Colleen Bawn or Hollis's new vessel," he said, after a while. One thing we soon found out, and that was that she was a stiff vessel. That was after a squall hit us off Cape Cod. We watched the rest of them then. Some luffed and others took in sail, and about them we could not tell.
What d'y'think I had that everlasting new balloon made for last trip in, what for that big mains'l that Tom here had bent on the Colleen yesterday, and for what did Maurice drive the Johnnie Duncan home only last night? What in " "Wait, Captain, wait. What I mean is, do you know how it is outside?
Even now I can hear the refrain sung by Company Sergeant-Major J.W. Woods: "My heart's far away with the Colleen I adore; Eileen alannah; Angus asthor." At the finish, before singing the National Anthem and the no less popular anthem of the Machine Gun Section, our men always sang: Keep the Home Fires Burning. The soldiers could have no better vesper hymn.
When a young man wants a partner, he steps across the road and asks a colleen, who lays aside her shawl, generally giving it to a younger sister to keep until the dance is over, when the girls go back to their own side of the road and put on their shawls again. Upon our arrival we find the 'sets' are already in progress; a 'set' being a dance like a very intricate and very long quadrille.
"Sure yer honour," Larry said with an innocent look, "when a gentleman like yourself is for ever walking and riding with a purty colleen, it don't need much guessing to suppose that you would be worrying after her, with such creatures as the Northerners and the furreners in her neighbourhood." "And you seriously think you could take a letter across to her, Larry?" "Sure and I could, yer honour.
He had harnessed Colleen and had loaded the pig into the cart somehow, and tied her securely. This must have been hard work, for Diddy had made up her mind she wasn't going to the Fair. Mr McQueen had found room, too, for some crocks of butter, and several dozen eggs carefully packed in straw. When breakfast was over, Mrs McQueen brought a stick with notches cut in it and gave it to Mr McQueen.
"Ahmin!" said Pat emphatically, "she's the grand little girl altogether, there's not her aiquals in Ireland." "Aye, indeed," chimed in his wife, "an' lookit how humble she is no more stuck up now nor she was when she was a little slip of a colleen, leppin' about on the Rock, beyant."
"Because they're always dhrunk that same crew; and if they're not dhrunk to-night, it's the first time in their lives they ever were sober. So make haste, now, and put off your coat, till we make a purty young colleen out o' you."
Wasn't it, as I said, his intintion to come and whip down the colleen to Kilnaheery while the family 'ud be at mass; sure only for this, I say, you bosthoon, an' that I made you bring her to mass, where 'ud the purty colleen be? why half way to Kilnaheery, an' the girl disgraced for ever!" "Thrue for you, Darby, I grant it: but what do you want me to do?"
Mauourneen dheelish, too, is only a short phrase, but, coming warm and mellowed from Paddy's lips into the ear of his colleen dhas, it is a perfect spell a sweet murmur, to which the lenis susurrus of the Hybla bees is, with all their honey, jarring discord. How tame is "My sweet darling," its literal translation, compared to its soft and lulling intonations.
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