devartin

Updated: July 18, 2026

"Jack," said I, some years since, to a handy "hedge carpenter," in the county of Wexford, "why did you not come last night to do the job I wanted? It is done now, and you have lost it." "Whi-thin, that's my misforthin any how an be-dad 'twas a double misforthin too, for I wus dooin nothin else thin devartin meeself." "Diverting yourself," said I, "and not minding your business?"

Jasper W. Rogers - Facts for the Kind-Hearted of England!: As to the Wretchedness of the Irish Peasantry, and the Means for their Regeneration