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"Ye'll not find me defindin' th' sellin' iv dhrink to anny man annywhere. There's no wan that's as much iv a timp'rance man as a man that's been in my business f'r a year. I'd give up all th' fun I get out iv dhrinkin' men to escape th' throuble I have fr'm dhrunkards. Drink's a poison. I don't deny it. I'll admit I'm no betther thin an ordinhry doctor.
The news was brought by Jack Brynn Dhas, the peddlar, that said he met the corporal iv the regiment on the quay iv Limerick, an' how he brought him into a public-house and thrated him to a naggin, and got all the news about poor Billy Malowney out iv him while they war dhrinkin' it; an' a sorrowful story it was.
They're both Irishmen, so they are, an' they're our sworn body-gyard, an' there ye have it. But, man, ye're not dhrinkin'. What 'il ye have? Here's port from Oporto pure none av yer vile Saxon compounds; likewise here's sherry from Xeres. Here's marsala an' maraschino. Here's champagne an' cognac. Here's also whiskey. What d'ye say, me lord? Is it whiskey? Divil a doubt!
"Keep yer eye on that loaf, Billy, or he'll be dhrinkin' our health in it!" Jamie remarked humorously. Boyle stretched himself on the floor and yawned. The little table was brought near the fire, the loaf was cut in slices and divided. It was a scene that brought us to the edge of tears tears of joy. Anna's face particularly beamed.
Sure enough, he was, too, an' lived successfully, till he died wid dhrinkin' brandy, as a cure for the gout; the Lord be praised!" "Where's the villain, Darby?" "He's in the mountains, no doubt, where he had thim to fight wid that's a match for him God, an' the dark storm that fell awhile agone.
'I do, says I. 'Why, he says, 'the platform has been adopted, he says. 'Whin? says I. 'Befure ye were born, says he. 'In th' reign iv Bildad th' first, says he he was a larned man, was Lafferty, though a dhrinkin' man. All sicreties iv pollyticians not in office is dhrinkin' men, Hinnissy. 'Ive got th' copy iv it here in me pocket, he says.
An' afther the first sip, the child lifts herself up on one arm, and sez, with a swate smile and a toss of the glass: "'I looks towards you, Scotty, sez she. "'I observes you and bows, miss, sez he, makin' as if he was dhrinkin' wid her. "'Here's another nail in yer coffin, old man, sez she winkin'.
Moan," replied Nogher, "for settin' me right sure we'll know something ourselves whin it comes our turn, plase goodness. If the misthress isn't asleep, by goxty, I'd call in to her, that I'm dhrinkin' her health." "She's not asleep," said her mother; "an' proud she'll be, poor thing, to hear you, Nogher." "Misthress!" he said in a loud voice, "are you asleep, ma'am?"
"Praise be a danst doesn't come as often as Ord'ly-room, or, by this an' that, Orth'ris, me son, I wud be the dishgrace av the rig'mint instid av the brightest jool in uts crown." "Hand the Colonel's pet noosance," said Ortheris, "But wot makes you curse your rations? This 'ere fizzy stuff's good enough." "Stuff, ye oncivilized pagin! 'Tis champagne we're dhrinkin' now.
"Faix thin, sir, he had no business, wid your honor's livery upon his back, to begin lecthurin' me again dhrinkin', as he did. We may all do very well, sir, till the timptation crasses us but that's what thries us. It thried him, but he didn't stand it faix he didn't! ha, ha, ha! Good-mornin', sir God bless you, Ma'am! Divil resave the family in all Europe" "Good-morning, Connell good-morning!
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