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Updated: May 12, 2025
Give me your hand, Shane Fadh, and you, Mary may goodness grant you pace and happiness every night and day you both rise out of your beds. I made that coat your husband has on his back beside you and a, betther fit was never made; but I didn't think it would come to my turn to have my dinner cast up this a-way, as if I was aiting it for charity.
"'As I'm a sinner, Michael, this is the only thing to be called a dinner I eat this day; Shane Fadh Mary, both your healths, and God grant you all kinds of luck and happiness, both here and hereafter! All your healths in gineral! gintlemen seculars! "'Thank you, Frank, said Father Corrigan; how did you speed to-day?
"Why, they found his hat in a bog-hole upon the water, and on searching the hole itself poor Larry was fished up from the bottom of it." "Well, that's a murdhering sorrowful story," said Shane Fadh: "but you won't be after passing that on us for the wake, ainy how." "Well, you must learn patience, Shane," said the narrator, "for you know patience is a virtue."
'Why, in troth, Father avourneen, says my mother-in law, 'they'd be hard to plase that couldn't be satisfied with them she got; not saying but she had her pick and choice of many a good offer, and might have got richer matches; but Shane Fadh M'Cawell although you're sitting there beside my daughter, I'm prouder to see you on my own flure, the husband of my child, nor if she'd got a man with four times your substance.
After some preliminary chat, "Well Shane," said Andy Morrow, addressing Shane Fadh, "will you give us an account of your wedding? I'm tould it was the greatest let-out that ever was in the country, before or since." "And you may say that, Mr. Morrow," said Shane, "I was at many a wedding myself, but never at the likes of my own, barring Tim Lannigan's, that married Father Corrigan's niece."
"Well, to be sure, larnin's a great thing, entirely," said M'Roarkin, aside, to Shane Fadh. "Ah, Tom, there's nothing like it: well, any way, it's wonderful what they know!" "Indeed it is, Shane and in so short a time, too!
"Jist as much as there's in my wig," replied Shane Fadh, "and there's ne'er a pocket to it yet. Why, bless your sowl, how could there be money in it, whin the last man of the Grameses that owned it I mane of the ould stock, afore it went into Lord Mountjoy's hands sould it out, ran through the money, and died begging afther'? Did none of you ever hear of
"Your time!" responded Shane Fadh, with contempt; "ay, and your father's afore you: my father doesn't remimber more nor seeing his funeral, and a merry one it was; for my grandfather, and some of them that had a respect for the family and his forbarers, if they hadn't it for himself, made up as much money among them as berried him dacently any how, ay, and gave him a rousin' wake into the bargain, with lashins of whiskey, stout beer, and ale; for in them times God be with them every farmer brewed his own ale and beer; more betoken, that one pint of it was worth a keg of this wash of yours, Ned."
At last, as the wind fell again, it melted away, weeping most sorrowfully, but so sweetly, that the likes of it was never heard. Sally then went to bed, and the poor woman was so harrished with one thing or another, that at last she fell asleep." "'Twas the Banshee," said Shane Fadh. "Indeed it was nothing else than that same," replied M'Roarkin.
"Why," continued Shane Fadh, "some said one thing, and some another; but the upshot of it was this: when the last of the Grameses sould the estate, castle, and all, it seems he didn't resave all the purchase money; so, afther he had spint what he got, he applied to the purchaser for the remainder him that the Mountjoy family bought it from; but it seems he didn't draw up writings, or sell it according to law, so that the thief o' the world baffled him from day to day, and wouldn't give him a penny bekase he knew, the blaggard, that the Square was then as poor as a church mouse, and hadn't money enough to thry it at law with him; but the Square was always a simple asy-going man.
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