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Updated: June 13, 2025
He was often startled with the rapid growth and increased strength of the laughing boy, Hanner Dyn, while at other times he seemed much as before and appeared to have made but little progress.
By the utmost skill and strength, Arthur compelled Hanner Dyn to lose his hold for one instant in the first trial, and the King was pronounced the victor.
And now as your hanner has behaved like a gentleman to me I will tell ye all my history. I was born in the city of Dublin, that is in the village of Donnybrook, as I tould your hanner before.
"I don't know, yere hanner; we are clane unsettled about religion. We were once Catholics and carried Saint Colman of Cloyne about wid us in a box; but after hearing a sermon at a church about images, we went home, took the saint out of his box and cast him into a river."
"I suppose you speak Welsh?" "Not a word, your hanner. The Welsh speak their language so fast, that divil a word could I ever contrive to pick up." "Do you speak Irish?" "I do, yer hanner; that is when people spake to me in it." I spoke to him in Irish; after a little discourse he said in English: "I see your hanner is a Munster man. Ah! all the learned men comes from Munster.
And now your hanner let me ask you why did your hanner wish for that tune, which is not only a blackguard one but quite out of date; and where did your hanner get the words?" "I used to hear the tune in my boyish days," said I, "and wished to hear it again, for though you call it a blackguard tune, it is the sweetest and most noble air that Ireland, the land of music, has ever produced.
His black left eye meanwhile fixed itself in such a stare on Mirandy Means that she shuddered and hid her eyes in her red silk handkerchief. "Daguerreotype," sniffed the Squire. It was Ralph's turn. "D-a-u, dau " "Next." And Hannah spelled it right. Such a buzz followed that Betsey Short's giggle could not be heard, but Shocky shouted: "Hanner beat! my Hanner spelled down the master!"
Well your hanner, being obliged to give up my bricklaying, I took to fiddling, to which I had always a natural inclination, and played about the streets, and at fairs, and wakes, and weddings.
Och, your hanner, I often wished the ould Orange days were back again.
If, however, you choose to play Croppies Lie Down, I'll give you a shilling." "Your hanner will give me a shilling?" "Yes," said I; "if you play Croppies Lie Down; but you know you cannot play it, your fingers never learned the tune."
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