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Dher a larna heena , he did; for it was above the bridge we first seen him: jist for all the world the Lord be about us as Antony and me war coming out on the road at the bridge, there he was standing a headless man, all black, without face or eyes upon him and then we left the coffin and cut acrass the fields home." * My soul to God and the Virgin.
"Father," said the young man, "I have too much of your own blood in me to be afraid of any man but for all that, I neither will nor can fight Meehaul Neil." "Very well," said the father, bitterly, "that's enough. Dher Manim, Oonagh, you're a guilty woman; that boy's no son of mine. If he had my blood in him, he couldn't act as he did.
"Faix, the accounts that's abroad, sir, about the gintleman from Dublin, that's so full of larnin', your reverance, and so rich, they say." "Then it was the mere accounts that wrought this change in you?" "Dhamnu orth a Rosha, go dhe shin dher thu?" said the husband in Irish; for he felt that the wife was more explicit than was necessary.
I'm watchin' him and I'm watched myself an' Ellen's watched. He has hardly a house to put his head in; but nabockish! I'll bring you an' him together ay, dher manim, an' I'll make him give you the first blow; afther that, if you don't give him one, it's your own fau't." "Get the money first, granny. I won't give him the blow till it is safe."
If Lamh Laudher comes off best, all I've struv for is knocked on the head. Dher Chiernah, I'll crush the sowl of his father or I'll not die happy." "Nell, you're bittherer than soot, and blacker too," observed Rody. "Am I?" said Nell, "an' is it from the good crathur that was ready, the other night, to murdher the mild innocent woman that he spakes so well of, that we hear sich discoorse?"
"I don't rightly know I can't say," replied Hogan, with a smile murderously grim but knowing "I'm not up; but the sportheen's a made boy, I think." "Dher cheerna! you are up," said Teddy, giving him a furious glance as he spoke; "there must be no saycrits, I say." "You're a blasted liar, I tell you I am not, but I suspect that's all." "What brought you up dhis night?" asked Teddy, suspiciously.
An occasional "hanamondioul, I'm into the hinches;" "holy St. Peter, I'm stuck;" "tun dher an' turf, where are you at all?" or, "by this an' by that, I dunno where I am," were the only words that passed between them, until they reached the little road we are speaking, of, which, in fact, was one unbroken rut, and on such a night almost impassable.
"Ho dher a Ihora heena," exclaimed the mother, "I'm the boy for one that will see the buckle crossed against them, or I'd die every day this twelve months upon the top and tail o' Knockmany, through wind an' weather.
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