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"Why, the poor girsha took a relapse, and wasn't strong enough to bear up aginst the last attack; but it's one comfort that you know she's happy." Owen stood for a moment, and, looking solemnly in his neighbor's face, exclaimed, in a deep and exhausted voice, "Frank!" "What are you goin' to say, Owen?" "The heart widin me's broke broke!"
So Mave, if you'll be guided by your priest, advance the mutton towards the fire about two inches, and keep the little girsha basting steadily, and then you'll be sure to have it rich and juicy." "Docthor, wid submission, I was wantin' to know what a good parish might be " "Mike Lawdher, if I don't mistake, you ought to have good grazing down in your meadows at Ballinard.
It was surprising how old childish friendships and the most distant ties of kindred were furbished up and brought into the light of day. The grass in the lane to the glen became trampled to a regular track. If the women themselves did not come panting up the hill they sent the little girsha, or wee Tommy or Larry, with a little fish, or a griddle cake, or a few fresh greens for Margret.
Peety, who was well known and a great favorite on his rounds, received a warm and hospitable welcome from Jemmy Burke, who made him and the girl sit upon the hob, and immediately ordered them breakfast. "Here, Nancy Devlin, get Peety and the girsha their skinfuls of stirabout an' milk. Sit over to the fire, alanna, an' warm yourself."
Give the girsha something to ate among you, for the credit of the house, before she goes back," he added. "Paddy Toole, girth that horse tighter, I tell you; I never can get you to girth him as he ought to be girthed." On bidding the women good-bye, Bryan looked towards Kathleen for a moment, and her eye in return glanced on him as he was about to go.
You see, gintlemen," he added, turning to the magistrates, "my improvement elevates the metaphor proceed, girsha."
"Beggin' your pardon, ma'am," he replied, "is it three healths you'd have me dhrink wid the one glassful? not myself, indeed; faix, I'd be long sorry to make so little of him if he was a bit of a girsha I'd not scruple to give him a corner o' the glass, but, bein' a young man althers the case intirely he must have a bumper for himself."
Is not once sufficient for me to say what I've said concerning him? But, as we are all present, I now say and declare, that my opinion of Denis O'Shaughnessy, jun., is decidedly peculiar decidedly. "Come, girsha, keep basting the mutton, and never heed my boots turn it about and baste the back of it better."
I declare to my goodness I think the very dirt under his feet turns to money. Well, girsha, an' have they any suspicion of the robbers?" "Why," said the girl, "they talk about" she paused, and it was quite evident from her manner that she felt not only embarrassed, but distressed by the question.
'Stand aside, men, he cried, 'and if I fail, see to the girsha! He was the strongest man in all the Island, and as much at home in the water as a porpoise. They saw his sleek head now and again flung out of the trough of the waves, and his huge shoulders labouring against the weight of the storm.
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