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Updated: June 13, 2025
How is it all wid ye?" "Quite well. How is it wid yere hanner? "Tolerably. Where do you come from?" "From Chepstow, yere hanner." "And where are you going to?" "To Newport, yere hanner." "And I come from Newport, and am going to Chepstow. Where's Tourlough and his wife?" "At Cardiff, yere hanner; I shall join them again to-morrow." "Have you been long away from them?"
No, your hanner, though I played "Croppies Get Up," till my fingers ached, as I stumped before him and his mobs and processions, he never gave me the sovereign: unlike your hanner who gave me the shilling ye promised me for playing "Croppies Lie Down," Daniel O'Connell never gave me the sovereign he promised me for playing "Croppies Get Up."
But nothing lasts under the sun, as your hanner knows; Orangeism began to go down; the Government scowled at it, and at last passed a law preventing the Protestant boys dressing up the figure on the first of July, and walking round it.
I have been at their chapels at nights, and have listened to their screaming prayers, and have seen what's been going on outside the chapels after their services, as they call them, were over I never saw the like going on outside Father Toban's chapel, yere hanner!
Why, with my bound gal, Hanner, a-loafin' along through the blue-grass paster at ten o'clock, and keepin' that gal that's got no protector but me out that a-way, and destroyin' her character by his company, that a'n't fit fer nobody." Here Bronson saw that he had caught a tartar. He said he had no more questions to ask of Mrs.
"'Why then Divil in my patten if I would not go back to Donnybrook and Dublin, hoist the Orange cockade, and become as good an Orange boy as ever. "'What, said I, 'and give up Popery for the second time? "'I would, your hanner; and why not? for in spite of what I have heard Father Toban say, I am by no means certain that all Protestants will be damned. "'Farewell, said I.
Would your hanner like to look at them?" "Oh dear no," said I; "I have long been tired of books; I have had enough of them." "I daresay, your hanner; from the state of your hanner's eyes I should say as much; they look so weak picking up learning has ruined your hanner's sight." "May I ask," said I, "from what country you are?"
"They are, yere hanner; they intends leaving off business and going to America next spring." "It will cost money." "It will, yere hanner; but they have got money, and so have I." "Is it because business is slack that you are thinking of going to America?"
"Very hot, my friend," said I; "have you travelled far to-day?" "I have not, your hanner; I have been just walking about the dirty town trying to sell my books." "Have you been successful?" "I have not, your hanner; only three pence have I taken this blessed day." "What do your books treat of?" "Why, that is more than I can tell your hanner; my trade is to sell the books not to read them.
Farewell, your hanner, once more; and here's another scratch of the illigant tune your hanner is so fond of, to cheer up your hanner's ears upon your way." And long after I had left him I could hear him playing on his fiddle in first-rate style the beautiful tune of "Down, down, Croppies Lie Down."
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