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"Faix, yer honour, thin, I'm not rightly knowing; but I hear tell she's down at the widow Kelly's." "Who told you, you fool?" "Well thin, yer honer, it war Judy." "And where's Judy?"
I know you pray enough, but, be my sowl, it hasn't improved your morals, or it's the misthress' health we'd be drinkin' in a good bottle o' whiskey at the present time. Faix, myself wouldn't be much surprised if she had a hard twist in consequence, an' if she does, the fault's your own an' not ours, for we're willin' as the flowers o' May to drink all sorts o' good luck to her."
But I daresay there are no spirits in this spring." "Faix, an' it would be a rale misfortune if there was, sir," remarked Bryan, who came up at this moment, and touched his cap; "for it would be only sperits and wather, which wouldn't kape in this cowld climate. I've finished the ring-bolts for the sled, sir, an' came to see when ye would have them fixed."
"Go an, go an; faix, you're like the new moon, sharp at both corners: but what matther, you beauty, we've secured the farm, at any rate, an', by this an' by that, I'll show you tip-top farmin' an it." A struggle now commenced between the husband and wife, as to which of them should, in their respective departments, advance themselves with greater rapidity in life.
I mane if ye say any timbers or spars from the wrack drifting inshore, just you hould your eye on thim, or the divil a mother's son ye'll have a roof over his hid or a pace of foire to warm his-self! Faix, ye needn't snigger, ye spalpeens; it's the truth I'm afther tellin' ye!" and Mr McCarthy then went off, shaking his fist good-humouredly at those who laughed at his quaint speech.
"Why, messmates," he was wont to say, "it bait everything the way he tuk it out. `Open yer mouth, says he, an' sure I opened it, an' before I cud wink, off wint my head so I thought but faix it wor only my tuth a real grinder wi' three fangs no less och! he's a cliver lad intirely." But Will did not confine his inquiries to the objects contained within his wooden home.
Faix, there's Playful at her tricks already by dad she'll be over the ropes! steady, Bob steady, or she'll back on you give it her, Gayner, my boy, give it her, never spare her laws! did you see that? Well if he gets her over the course, he'd ride the very divil.
"Cynogale Bennetti," replied the young naturalist very gravely. "Faix, that's jist what I thought he was whin Oi foired at him," added Felix. "Sin O, gal! But what had Ben Netty to do wid it? Or was Netty the name of the gal?" "I gave you the scientific name because this creature has no plain English name, though the natives here call it the mampalon," added Louis.
"It is clear," said our hero, "that we shall have to pass the night here, for there is no sign of human habitation, and the light is failing fast." "That's so," said Muggins curtly. "I'm a'feard on it," observed Old Peter with a sigh. "Faix, I wouldn't mind spindin' the night," said Larry, "av it worn't that we've got no grub.
'Tis the oil o' the hazel, or a rubbin' down wid an oak towel you want. Get up, I say, or, by this an' by that, I'll flail you widin an inch o' your life." "Is it beside yourself you are, Condy?" "No, no, faix; I've found you out: Ellish is afther tellin' me that it was a smotherin' on the heart; but it's a pain in the small o' the back wid yourself. Oh, you born desaver!
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