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'Do you mane to say you'd rather be dhrownded in yer buckles than alive in yer stockin' feet? he replied. There were some cross expostulations, but eventually the fellow came out to Puddock. Perhaps the feat was not quite so perilous as he represented; but it certainly was not a pleasant one.
In the course of a few minutes, he returned, exclaiming, "Why, thin, is it thinkin' to venthur out sich a night as it's comin' on yer Reverences would be? and it plashin' as if it came out of methers! Sure the life would be dhrownded out of both of ye, and yees might colch a faver into the bargain."
'Puddock's drowned, panted Lillyman. 'Puddock! bless us! where? puffed Toole. 'Hollo! you, Sir have they heard it is he drowned? cried Lillyman to the sentry outside the gate. 'Dhrownded? yes, Sir, replied the man saluting. 'Is help gone? 'Yes, Sir, Lieutenant Brady, and Sergeant Blakeney, and nine men. 'Come along, cried Lillyman to Toole, and they started afresh.
Och man, you're dhrownded entirely; 'tis a mighty soft evenin' it's turnin' out." "And here's Katty lookin' out for you this great while," Big Anne would say, "she's finely this evenin', glory be to goodness." Affairs were much in this posture, when the widow M'Gurk was one day perplexed by the occurrence of two small incidents.
"Belike it's lave of the likes of YOU I ought to be axin' where I'm to git grazin' for me own cattle?" a growl of sarcastic thunder was just then observing, to which flashed a scathing response: "And, bedad, then, it's lave you had a right to be axin' afore you sent off me poor son Hughey's bit of a Pat, to be wastin' his time mindin' your ould scarecrow and gettin' himself dhrownded in the tide.
'Jemmy, said he to the boy who presented himself, 'run down to Tom Garret, at the Millbridge, and tell him Captain Cluffe's dhrownded over the weir, and to take the boat-hook and rope he's past the bridge by this time ay is he at the King's House an' if he brings home the corpse alive or dead, before an hour, Captain Puddock here will give him twenty guineas reward. So away went the boy.
An' Mark Hanna came out iv' th' cellar, where he's been since Cousin George presinted his compliments to th' Ph'lippines an' wud they prefer to be kilt or dhrownded, an' pro-posals was made to bond th' Cubian pathrites, an' all th' deuces in th' deck begun to look like face car-rds again, whin suddently there comes a message fr'm Cousin George.
Sorra a fut would he if he knew aught ailed me; and then sure he might stay at home for good and all; and dhrownded he'll be, and meself'ill go deminted. And sure I thought it was maybe no thing to be doin', and so I said to her. But it seemed the heart of her was to be broke altogether if anythin' 'ud hinder him gettin' out of it.
'Captain Cluffe has gone over this horrid weir, not a minute since, and is I fear drowned. 'Dhrownded! och! bloody wars. 'Yes, Sir, send some one this moment down the stream with a rope 'Hollo, Jemmy? cried the man, and whistled through his crooked finger.
Darcy hitched himself round, still with a shoulder propped against the partition, and uttered, without any enthusiasm, a few nasal and guttural sentences. "He says, yer worship," said William, with unctuous propriety, "that Sweeny's gorsoons were ever and always hunting his sheep, and settin' on their dog to hunt her, and that last week they dhrove her into the lake and dhrownded her altogether."
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