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"Why, they can't be worse; I'm run to the last pass; and Freney now, the crature, when the saddle's on him, comes to the mounting-stone of himself, and waits there till I'm ready. Then," he added, with a deep sigh, "to think of parting with him! And I must do it I must;" and here the tears rose to his eyes so copiously that he was obliged to take out his cotton handkerchief and wipe them away.

'Twas true, she knew that he had contradicted all this afterwards when he got sober, and said it was the liquor that caused him to speak as he did, that Mogue was a good kind-hearted crature, who loved truth, and was one of the most religious boys among them.

"Och! ye purty crature," exclaimed the delighted Irishman, rubbing his hands with glee as he gazed at the fish after having unhooked it. "Shure ye'll make a beautiful fagure in the kittle this night. An' musha! there's wan o' yer relations to kape ye company," he added, as, exerting an enormous degree of unnecessary force, he drew another trout violently from the water.

"Ah, then, there it comes," thought Mogue; "how the crature feels for me! an' even if I did, Miss Julia, sure one kind word when I come home is fit to cure it."

Don't you know the differ, Sir, between a threat an' a warnin', you bosthoon? thundered his reverence. 'You're sthrivin' to provoke me to a brache iv the pace, as the company can testify, said Dirty Davy. 'Ye lie again, you you fat crature 'tis thryin' to provoke you to keep the pace I am.

He said the horse would only be a bother, and if we should lay hands onto you, either of our horses was strong enough to take you, so we left the crature behind." "Did you have any trouble in following us?" "Not at first; a hundred red spalpeens riding over the prairie can't any more hide their trail than an Irishman can save himself from cracking a head when he is invited to do so.

"Fifty if you like, but I won't promise to answer any one o' them." "Was I brought to Finnerty's house with an evil purpose?" "No: the poor, pious fool that brought you there but I'm wrong in sayin' so for it was the mist that done it. No, the poor fool that came there with you is a crature that nobody would trust. He thinks you're lyin' sound asleep in Finnerty's this minute.

"Poor people like the Kellys!" shouted the widow, now for the first time really angry with Daly "not so poor, Mr Daly, as to do dirthy work for anyone. I wish I could say as much this day for your mother's son! Poor people, indeed! I suppose, now, you wouldn't call Barry Lynch one of your poor people; but in my mind he's the poorest crature living this day in county Galway.

Byrne done all she could for me, but of course when it got to be weeks an' months that I was on my back not able to do a hand's turn for meself, an' no money comin' an' no sign o' Barney, what could she do, the crature? One day Dr. Isaacs says to her, 'Mrs. Byrne, says he, 'why don't ye send poor Mrs. Brady to the Infirmary? 'What Infirmary, sir? says she.

While he was descanting on the attributes of that bewitching 'crature, Puddock, not two yards off, was describing, with scarcely less unction, the perfections of 'pig roast with the hair on: and the two made a medley like 'The Roast Beef of Old England, and 'The Last Rose of Summer, arranged in alternate stanzas.

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