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"It means, I think," said the young soldier, with some reluctance, "son of a female dog: Do you compare your psalms, To the tales of the bare-arm'd Fenians" "Are you sure you are translating that last epithet correctly, Hector?" "Quite sure, sir," answered Hector, doggedly. "Because I should have thought the nudity might have been quoted as existing in a different part of the body."
And as for cards, it's enough for Miss Kostalergi to be in the room to make one forget not only the cards, but the Fenians. 'If it was only out of loyalty, then, I should leave you! said she, and walked proudly away. The whist-party did not break up till nigh morning. The sergeant had once appeared at the drawing-room to announce that all was quiet without.
Before the Nationalists we had the Fenians, the Whiteboys, the Ribbon-men, the United Irishmen, the Defenders, the goodness-knows-what, running back in continuous line up to the dawn of history. No wonder we are poor. Cannot Gladstonians read the records?
Why, we'd all become Conservatives at once. Sure anybody with half-an-eye could see that in a pitch-dark night in a bog-hole." My friend assured me that secret societies are unknown in Mayo, or at any rate, in the Westport district. The young men of Clare, he thought, were Fenians to a man. "They are queer, blood-thirsty folks, enemies to Ireland. Why, they object to other Irishmen.
The constable, who knew both the farmer and his wife, nodded familiarly to them. "They're Fenian prisoners," he said. "Nonsense!" cried Mrs. Bartlett the old man, as usual, keeping his mouth grimly shut when his wife was present to do the talking "they're not Fenians. They've been camping on our farm for a week or more."
I take it that all the stories of both cycles relate to ages of the breakup of civilization: peaceful and civilized times leave less impress on the racial memory. The Fenians are distinctly further from such civilized times, however, than are the Red Branch: they are a nomad company, but the Red Branch had their capital at Emain Macha by Armagh in Ulster.
As the blessed St Patrick afore said compelled the varmints to betake themselves to the swamps and morasses, and `chased the frogs into the bogs, so the redoubtable 0'Mahony has compelled the rebellious Fenians to hide their diminished heads and betake themselves to the recesses of oblivion, where their contortions will be watched by the observer of futurity, as the visitors of Blarney Castle are edified by the gambols of the 'comely eels in the verdant mud. The brave 0'Mahony has come forth from the contest like gold from the crucible, or whisky from the still, purified, etherealised, and elevated, while his antagonists have shrunk away like dross or swill, never more to mingle with the Olympian deliberation, and Jove-like councils of the Moffatt Mansion.
George's Channel and the Atlantic to be annihilated, and Ireland to touch, by a land frontier, on the one side Great Britain, on the other the United States. The friction and even the warfare which might have arisen between these two great Powers from the plots of American Fenians may readily be imagined.
On the whole the thing was on a far higher ethical plane than the methods employed by the Fenians, as well as more widespread, and the thing was far and away more dignified than poor Smith O'Brien's rising, which ended, as it began, in a humble cabbage-patch.
Having formed their square, the Canadians found themselves the helpless targets of the Fenians in the woods. If O'Neill's forces had shot with reasonable precision, they must have cut the volunteers to pieces.
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