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He broke off, pointed bluntly to the munched pulp of the fig, and said loudly: I allude to that. Um, Cranly said as before. Do you intend that now, the squat student said, as IPSO FACTO or, let us say, as so to speak? Dixon turned aside from his group, saying: Goggins was waiting for you, Glynn. He has gone round to the Adelphi to look for you and Moynihan.
"And puts my things in the paper, when he gets the editor's back turned, for the editor is a consaited chap that likes no one's po'thry but his own; but never mind if I ever get a writ against that chap, won't I sarve it!" "And I dar say some day you will have it agen him, sir," said Larry. "Sure of it, a'most," said Goggins; "them litherary men is always in defficulties."
"Pooh! pooh! nonsense!!" broke in the little man, who had listened thus far to Murtough with an expression of mingled wonder and contempt, while the rest of the party willingly gave up the reins to nonsense, and enjoyed Murtough's Legend and their companion's more absurd common sense. "Don't interrupt him, Goggins," said Mister Wiggins. "How can you listen to such nonsense?" returned Goggins.
"You see, sir," said Goggins, "in the first place, it is quite beautiful to see the mind in adversity bearing up against the little antediluvian afflictions that will happen occasionally, and then how fine it is to remark the spark of generosity that kindles in the noble heart and rushes to the assistance of the destitute!
The door opened, and Mister Goggins made his appearance, presenting to the gentlemen in the room the hinder portion of his person, which made several indications of courtesy performed by the other half of his body, while he uttered the words, "Don't be astonished, gentlemen; you'll be used to it by-and-by."
For you see the big house near this barn, that is all in ruin, was desarted because Jim's ghost used to walk." "That was foolish," said Goggins; "stir up the fire, Jim, and hand me the whisky." "Oh, if it was only walkin', they might have got over that; but at last one night, as the story goes, when there was a thremendious storm o' wind and rain "
"Oh!" said Goggins, "those in the heavy profession of the law must have their little private moments of rollickzation; and then high men, you see, like to do a bit of low by way of variety. 'The Night before Larry was stretched' was done by a bishop, they say; and 'Lord Altamont's Bull' by the Lord Chief Justice; and the Solicitor-General is as up to fun as any bishop of them all.
"Throw some turf on the fire," said Goggins, "'t is burning low; and change the subject; the tragic muse has reigned sufficiently long enough of the dagger and the bowl sink the socks and put on the buckskins. Leather away, Jim sing us a song." "What is it to be?" asked Jim.
"Well, he was thried and condimned av coorse, and was hanged, as I tell you, half a mile out o' this very place, where we are sittin', and his appearance walks, they say, ever since." "You don't say so!" said Goggins. "'Faith, it's thrue!" answered Larry. "You never saw it," said Goggins. "The Lord forbid!" returned Larry; "but it's thrue, for all that.
"What do you think o' that, Goggins?" inquired one bailiff from the other; "you're a judge o' po'thry." "It's sevare," answered Goggins, authoritatively, "but coorse, I wish you'd brile the rashers; I begin to feel the calls o' nature, as the poet says." This Mister Goggins was a character in his way.
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