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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Sure it's wid wan eye open we've got to slape whin the murtherin' rascals come down on us like that," observed Corporal Flynn, when the firing had slackened to a few dropping shots on both sides. "Av they'd only stand fornint us in the open, it's short work we'd make o' them. There's no more pluck in them than in my smallest finger."
Sure I wance wint after the doctor o' a ship, to carry his box for him when he wint on what he called botanical excursions; and the poor cratur used to be pokin' his nose for iver down at the ground, an' peerin' through his green spectacles at miserable bits o' plants, an' niver seemin' to enjoy anything; when all the time I was lookin' far fornint me, an all around me, an' up at the sky, seein' ivery beautiful thing, and snifterin' up the sweet smells, an' in fact enjoyin' the whole univarse an my pipe to boot like an intelligent cratur."
It's a great old spring we're havin' intirely; it has raison to be proud of itself, begob! There's a nate stack of turf fornint it, and a pitaty pot sets beside the doore, wid the hins and chuckens rachin' over into it like aigles tryin' to swally the smell.
"That big white house there," said he, "right fornint ye, with the round top an' the staple all to wan side that's wan o' the chief mosques. It's somewhere about two hunderd year ould, more or less, an' was built by a slave a poor feller of a Genoese an', would you belave it, they kilt him for the shape he gave it! Ah, they're a bad lot intirely!
"So there is no hope," I said, "for home industries, weaving, lace-making." "I won't say that." "But has it been tried?" "The candle do be burning in the priest's window till one in the morning, and he sitting up thinking of plans to keep the people at home. Do you see that house, sir, fornint my whip, at the top of the hill?" I said I did. "Well, that's the playhouse that he built."
"Connor," she added, after a pause, during which he and Una, though silent from respect to her, were both deeply affected; "sit fornint me, avick machree, that, for the short time you're to be with me, I may have you before my eyes. Husth now, a colleen machree, an' remimber your promise. Where's the stringth you said you'd show?"
"Did it kill many people?" "Sorra the one," said McConkey. "But I'll tell you what it did do." His voice sank to a hoarse but singularly impressive whisper. "It made flitters of the statue of the old Queen that was sitting fornint the City Hall. The like of thon is nice work for men that's wearing the King's uniform." Bland burst into a sudden fit of boisterous laughter.
"If ye can't say somethin' to cheer the women, there's no need for to look blue an' tell us what a mere babby could see for itself." This remark, coming as it did from lugubrious Mitford, caused Terrence O'Connor to smile. "True for ye," he said, "we can see what's fornint us, but even Black Ned can't see round the corner."
But it was the letthers from me ould mother, Miss, that is sthruck wid a mortial illness long life to her! in County Clare, and me sisthers in Ninth Avenue in New York, fornint the daypo, that is brekken their harruts over me listin' in the Fourth Infanthry to do duty in a haythen wilderness.
Sure I wance wint after the doctor o' a ship, to carry his box for him when he wint on what he called botanical excursions; and the poor cratur used to be pokin' his nose for iver down at the ground, an' peerin' through his green spectacles at miserable bits o' plants, an' niver seemin' to enjoy anything; when all the time I was lookin' far fornint me, an' all around me, an' up at the sky, seem' ivery beautiful thing, and snifterin' up the sweet smells, an' in fact enjoyin' the whole univarse an my pipe to boot like an intelligent cratur."
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