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Updated: May 11, 2025
"'There was one expression used by that man, I observed, when we got out again upon the Castle Cumber road, 'which I do not properly understand; it was, 'how should you like to get a touch of the wreckers? "'The wreckers, sir, replied old M'Loughlin, 'are a set of men such as that fellow we have just been speaking to brimful of venom and hatred against Catholics and their religion.
Forcing his way among the crowd of attendants from the shore, that are apt to cumber a departing ship, he reached the part of the vessel where a circle of busy and anxious faces told him he should find those most concerned in her fate. Until now, he had hardly breathed clearly, much less reflected on the character of his sudden enterprise.
"I s'pose you been practicin' up on tin-cans?" suggested the deputy, leaning on the counter. "Sometimes I hit things and sometimes I don't," answered the stranger. "Well," and this was put more crisply as the deputy brought out a large pad of paper, "jest gimme your name, partner." "Joe Cumber." He grew still more ill at ease.
They are not content until they the citizens are all prominent, and their buildings are all the largest that cumber the earth. It is a great comfort to those who gamble away their substance in the Board of Trade to reflect that the weathercock that surmounts its tower is the biggest ever seen by human eye.
In the meantime, Father M'Cabe, who had read M'Slime's paragraph in the Castle Cumber "True Blue," respecting Darby's conversion, had a sharp eye out for him, as they term it in the country.
Behold, I say, is not this the cause that the trees of thy vineyard have become corrupted? And it came to pass that the Lord of the vineyard said unto the servant: Let us go to and hew down the trees of the vineyard and cast them into the fire, that they shall not cumber the ground of my vineyard, for I have done all. What could I have done more for my vineyard?
And with that the usually jovial brother, moved now by a great access of wrath, which had given him unwonted eloquence, pointed a finger significantly at the trembling peddler; and Jack, who held him by the collar, gave him a shake and said: "Give me leave to carry him to the village green and tell the good folks there the tale, and I warrant that he will not cumber the ground much longer."
Only I do beg, that for your own sake and mine, you will keep from the brandy. I have remitted the rents to Lord Cumber, who will soon make them fly." In a few minutes afterwards he proceeded at full speed to the edifying death-bed of his father.
Burning the felled trees that cumber the ground is the next undertaking. This cutting out a home from the bush is work that exhausts body and mind, but the reward is what makes life sweet to right-minded people independence. September 1 Had new potatoes to-day. They are dry and mealy and abundant in yield. I may say this is the first food the land has given us.
He accordingly lost no time in communicating on the subject with Lord Cumber, who at once supported him in the project of raising a body of cavalry for the better security of the public peace; as, indeed, it was his interest to do, inasmuch, as it advanced his own importance in the eye of government quite as much as it did M'Clutchy's.
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