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Updated: June 13, 2025
Though my fingers may remember the tune, my tongue does not remember the words that is unless . . . "'I give another shilling, said I; 'but never mind you the words; I know the words, and will repeat them. "'And your hanner will give me a shilling? "'If you play the tune, said I. "'Hanner bright, your hanner? "'Honour bright, said I.
"A celebrated place," said I. "Your hanner may say that; all the world has heard of Donnybrook, owing to the humours of its fair. Many is the merry tune I have played to the boys at that fair." "You are a professor of music, I suppose?" "And not a very bad one, as your hanner will say, if you allow me to play you a tune." "Can you play Croppies Lie Down?"
I first sold laces, and then I sold loocifers, and then something else; I have followed several trades in Wales, your hanner; at last I got into the book-selling trade, in which I now am." "And it answers, I suppose, as badly as the others?" "Just as badly, your hanner; divil a bit better." "I suppose you never beg?" "Your hanner may say that; I was always too proud to beg.
"Can't yere hanner give me God before ye go?" "I can give you half-a-crown to help you on your way to America." "I want no half-crowns, yere hanner; but if ye would give me God I'd bless ye." "What do you mean by giving you God?" "Putting Him in my heart by some good counsel which will guide me through life."
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.
For the hanner an' glory av all Dhraghoons, of the Ould Seconds, and of me pore bed-ridden frind, Patsy Flannigan, ye must go an' plug the wicked scutt, Matty darlint." "It was Flannigan's fault," replied Dam, daubing pipe-clay on the huge cuff of a gauntlet which he had drawn on to a weird-looking wooden hand, sacred to the purposes of glove-drying.
"They never did, your hanner; but they have heard it played of ould by the blackguard Orange fiddlers of Dublin on the first of July, when the Protestant boys used to walk round Willie's statue on College Green so if your hanner gives me the shilling, they may perhaps bring out something like it." "Very good," said I; "begin!"
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.
Still not doubting the result, the Squire turned from place to place and selected all the hard words he could find. The school became utterly quiet, the excitement was too great for the ordinary buzz. Would "Meanses' Hanner" beat the master? beat the master that had laid out Jim Phillips? Everybody's sympathy was now turned to Hannah.
"'Your hanner may say that; all the world has heard of Donnybrook, owing to the humours of its fair. Many is the merry tune I have played to the boys at that fair. "'You are a professor of music, I suppose? "'And not a very bad one as your hanner will say if you will allow me to play you a tune. "'Can you play "Croppies Lie Down"?
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