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Judge Whiting, I had the axe round me neck by the climbin' strap, and I got it in me fingers when we heard the crature comin', and against his chist I set it, and I gave him a shove that sint him over.
'The same, said the boy; and Toole, with difficulty swallowing down his rage, hurried into the house, resolved to take Lowe's advice on the matter, and ready to swear to poor Sally's perfect sanity 'the crature! the villains!
'Well, it's all one, said Mrs. Irons, gaping from the other window, and sobering rapidly; 'if 'tisn't to-day, 'twill be to-morrow, I suppose; and at any rate 'tis a sin and shame to leave any poor crature in this miserable taking, not knowing but he might be drownded or worse dear knows it would not be much trouble to tell his wife when the gentleman wanted him and sure for any honest matter I'd never say against it.
"There's that poor ould woman, too, up there, left to starve by herself, the crature, now they've gone and put her two sons into gaol. I wonder what the counthry 'll be the better for all them boys being crammed into gaol. I wish they'd kept that Ussher down in the north when he was there; he's fitter for that place than County Leitrim, any how." "What's that about Captain Ussher, Father Cullen?"
"It's true for ye, sir," cried Davy, scratching his head, and glancing down at his ragged garments, "bud it's only for a month you'll be havin' cowld here, and the poor crature at home has a long winter to get over, and her as bare as myself, and less able for id.
"He is livin'," replied Dalton; "but come pass on, ould man," he added, bitterly; "I'll give you no more information." "Well, thank you, dear," said the pedlar; "I ax your pardon for givin' you pain an' the colleen here ay, you're a Sullivan, then an' a purty but sorrowful lookin' crature your are, God knows. Poor things!
Give Peety a chair, the crature; come forrid, Peety, an' take a sate; an' how are you? an' how is the girsha wid you, an' where is she?" To these questions, thus rapidly put, Peety returned suitable answers; but indeed Mrs. M'Mahon did not wait to listen to them, having gone to another room to produce the whisky she had provided for the occasion.
She didn't come through the kay-hole, nor yet out of the window." "I'm saying nothing about how she came here, but here she is, poor creature!" "Poor crature, indeed! She was like to be a poor crature, av' she stayed up there much longer." "Here she is, I say, and I consider it my duty to look after her. You cannot but be aware, Mrs Kelly, that this is not a fit place for Miss Lynch.
"And a very great scoundrel is Mogue Moylan," said one of them, with a wink at the rest. "Well, no," said Finnerty, "I think not poor Mogue's a daecnt, quiet crature, and has a great regard for truth and religion."
But natheless I am in hope of reppentence hereafter, being but a younge man, if I do wrong thro' ignorens: your Honner being a grate man, and a grave wit; and I a poor crature, not worthy notice; and your Honner able to answer for all. But, howsomever, I am Your Honner's fetheful sarvant in all dewtie, JOSEPH LEMAN. You have a worse opinion of your invention than you ought to have.
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