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As for me, I don't want a promise at all, your reverence, barrin' that if it 'ud be plaisin' to you, jist to lay your forefinger along your nose merely to show that we undherstand one another it 'ud be as good to me as the bank. The crathur on the breast, your reverence, we'd throw in as a luck penny, or dhuragh, and little Paddy we give at half price." "Did you hear all this?"
* Annihilate Many of the jawbreakers and this was one in a double sense used by the hedge-schoolmasters, are scattered among the people, by whom they were so twisted that it would be extremely difficult to recognize them. Dhuragh An additional portion of anything thrown in from a spirit of generosity, after the Measure agreed on is given.
When the miller, for instance, receives his toll, the country-people usually throw in several handfuls of meal as a Dhuragh. "'Oh! murther sheery! shouted the miller. 'Murther-an-age, I'm kilt! Foul play! foul play! "'You lie, big Nebuchodonosor! it's not this is all fair play, you big baste!
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