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Updated: June 11, 2025
"You can call me if anything happens or should it come to blow worse, but I shall be up and down all night to see how you're getting on." "Och! the divvle dout ye!" muttered the Irishman in his quizzing way, as the skipper went down the ladder, giving a word to the boatswain and man at the wheel below as he passed them on his way up. "Ye niver give a chap the cridit of keeping a watch to himself!"
Well, sir, whin I see him first, he'd th' smell iv Castle Garden on him, an' th' same is no mignonette, d'ye mind; an' he was goin' out with pick an' shovel f'r to dig in th' canal, a big, shtrappin', black-haired lad, with a neck like a bull's an' covered with a hide as thick as wan's, fr'm thryin' to get a crop iv oats out iv a Clare farm that growed divvle th' thing but nice, big boldhers.
Ashby had been talking with Dolores for some time. He now came forward, Dolores hanging on his arm. "Sir," said he to "His Majesty," "I suppose we must again consider ourselves your prisoners?" "Divvle a doubt av it," said "His Majesty," with a wink at Dolores. "The other time," said Ashby, "you named a ransom, and said that on the payment of that sum you would allow us our liberty.
Dooley, "'tis a bad night out, an' th' poor divvle looked that miserable it brought th' tears to me eyes, an'" "But," said Mr. McKenna, "that ain't any reason why you should give half a dollar to every tramp who comes in." "Jawn," said Mr. Dooley, "I know th' ma-an. He spinds all his money at Schneider's, down th' block." "What of that?" asked Mr. McKenna. "Oh, nawthin'," said Mr.
One of them sez, sez he, 'The beggar's been a hauling of a net, he has. 'Divvle a bit more than yerself, sez I. 'There's me impliments, an', what's more, if ye wor to stay here till next week the sorra fish can ye ketch, because, bedad! ye dunno how. Wid that they put their heads together, and swore it ud disgrace them to go home to Washington without a fish, you know; an' how much would I take for the lot?
"Begorrah!" cried Mick, who stood near me in the fore-chains, ready with a rope to chuck down into the little craft as we surged alongside it, as indeed were several others also, like prepared, forwards; "they've bin havin' a divvle ov a row, or foightin', or somethin', sure; fur Tom, look thare, me bhoy can't ye say some soords or a pair of cutlashes or somethin' like 'em oonder the afther-thwart theer?"
Father Kelly puts it r-right, and years go by without him lookin' on it even at Hallowe'en. 'Whisky, says he, 'is called the divvle, because, he says, ''tis wan iv the fallen angels, he says. 'It has its place, he says, 'but its place is not in a man's head, says he. 'It ought to be th' reward iv action, not th' cause iv it, he says. 'It's f'r th' end iv th' day, not th' beginnin', he says.
I only wish he had been here to tell you the story of the `Devil's bit, for he would have narrated it in a much better fashion than I did, I'm sure." "The divvle a bit of it, ma'am!" exclaimed the old sailor, bursting into a jovial laugh at his joke, wherein even the staid Hellyer joined. "But, a truce to your blarney, ma'am; or, you'll make me blush.
So, there being now no longer any need, or indeed chance, of concealment, especially with Jenny's eyes fixed on him, Mick thought it best to make a clean breast of it at once. "Coom down out o' thet, ye divvle.
"'Faix, Mam, says the man, a Hirishman, 'and the divvle a babby have I seen this day except thirteen of my own and you're welcome to any one of THEM, and kindly. "'As if HIS babby was equal to ours, as my darling Mary Hann said, afterwards. All the station was scrouging round us by this time pawters & clarx and refreshmint people and all.
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