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It's little he's making of Miss Feemy's name with the police captain, and the young gauger, and young James Fitzsimon, when they're over there at Ballinamore together and great nights they have of it too; though they all have it in Mohill he's to marry Miss Feemy. If so, indeed! but then isn't he a black Protestant, sorrow take them for Protestants!
"Them gover'men' fellers cain' make nothin'," went on Pink. "Firs' place they's co'n at fifty cen's a bushel. One bushel o' co'n makes about two gallons o' whisky; they's an ex-pense o' nigh twenty-five cen's a gallon to begin with. Then the gauger comes 'roun', 'n ye have to pay a tax on all he's smart enough to fin', a dollar 'n ten cen's a gallon.
"Keep 'em all out!" shouted the constable, "keep 'em all out, except members of the possy!" The "possy" seemed to consist of Eb himself, the men who were guarding us, five or six of them and Gregory the Gauger. I never found out just what office he held, but he was clearly the most important man of the lot, except Eb.
I had walked and smoked for an hour or more, when Silas the mate appeared, and said that the lugger was ready and the horse aboard. Bidding Murgatroyd farewell, I ventured a few more words in favour of the gauger, which were received with a frown and an angry shake of the head. A boat was drawn up on the sand, inside the cave, at the water's edge.
Pete jumped in beside him, and smothered his cries with a pillow. Ed and I pushed off, and climbed in over the bows. In a minute we were alongside the yacht. Mr. Daddles and Sprague jumped on board, and Pete handed Gregory the Gauger up to them. He had to drop the pillow to do this, and as soon as the little man's mouth was uncovered he began his protests right where he had left off.
"The other name? Does she travel under an Elias, as Gregory the Gauger calls it?" "No, no! The captain doesn't like 'Hoppergrass' and he said he had thought of changing the name. Come on, let's go to the Eagle House." We made them understand at last, and then we started up the street in the direction that the crier had pointed. On the way, Jimmy Toppan was struck by doubts.
'Pray, my good friend, may I ask what that is you have on your shoulder? said Lord Colambre. PLASE your honour, it is only a private still, which I've just caught out yonder in the bog; and I'm carrying it in with all speed to the gauger, to make a discovery, that the JANTLEMAN may benefit by the reward; I expect he'll make me a compliment.
To kill a gauger was considered anything but a crime; wherever it could be done with comparative safety, he was hunted to the death." Thus we see that the townsman's weapon against the government was graft, and the mountaineer's weapon was his gun a hundred and fifty years ago, in Ireland, as they are in America to-day. Whether racial character had much to do with this is a debatable question.
She held on the farm, which her husband rented from Lord Ballindine, till her eldest son was able to take it. He, however, was now a gauger in the north of Ireland.
The choir in the gallery craned forward, for the church-door was right beneath them. Parson Babbage held up his hand, and screamed out over the hubbub "Where's she to?" "Under Bradden Point, an' comin' full tilt for the Raney!" "Then God forgive all poor sinners aboard!" spoke up a woman's voice, in the moment's silence that followed. "Is that all you know, Gauger Hocken?"
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