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"Arra' now, captain, you may as well cook and eat us at once, for sorrow a dollar have ye left us, and all the crucifixes, and candlesticks, and beautiful images, which we might have pledged for the money, stowed away in your hold!" exclaimed the fat friar, betraying his Hibernian origin, and that he had understood every word which had been spoken.
From the South, too, every Douglas man who was likely to carry weight in his community, was brought to Charleston to labor among the Ultras of his section. The Douglas headquarters in Hibernian Hall bore witness to the business-like way in which his candidacy was being promoted.
He had even joked with his cruel tormentors! Now that the dark hour was past, his jeux d'esprit were poured forth with a continuous volubility. No; not continuous. At intervals, a shadow crossed his spirit, as it did that of all of us. We could not fail to lament the fate of the unfortunate Hibernian.
John Reed, the sturdy Hibernian, was to undertake the Snake River country, accompanied by Pierre Dorion and Pierre Delaunay, as hunters, and Francis Landry, Jean Baptiste Turcotte, Andre la Chapelle, and Gilles le Clerc, Canadian voyageurs. Astoria, however, was the post about which they felt the greatest solicitude, and on which they all more or less depended.
In another place Pope himself allowed that Dennis had detected one of those blunders which are called "bulls." The first edition had this line: "What is this wit Where wanted scorned; and envied where acquired?" "How," says the critic, "can wit be scorned where it is not? Is not this a figure frequently employed in Hibernian land!
"I was made to call a man 'level, when I said in the American way that he was 'level-headed." A propos of this, I am told that the American word "spree" has become Hibernian, and is used to describe meetings of the National League and "other political entertainments."
"Twig the yellow beggar, will you, Gib?" said McGuffey; "one eye half open for all the world like he was winkin' at us an' enjoyin' th' joke." Not a muscle twitched in McGuffey's Hibernian countenance. He scratched his head for a moment, as a sort of first aid to memory, then turned and handed Mr. Gibney ten dollars. "You win, Gib. It's Oriental goods, sure enough."
I sympathize with that verdant Hibernian who liked sugar-making so well that he thought he should follow it the whole year.
Once more then, I bade adieu to Curryglass and its hospitable owner, whose labours for "justice to Ireland" I shall long remember, and depositing myself in the bowels of his majesty's mail, gave way to the full current of my hopes and imaginings, which at last ended in a sound and refreshing sleep, from which I only awoke as we drew up at the door of the Hibernian, in Dawson-street.
Next to Helen was a large red man of Hibernian extraction, with a long upper lip tamed but little by civilization or by razor; on his head he wore a dilapidated cloth cap; he was, to appearances, driver for an ice company or a brewery. At Smith's elbow was a small, black-haired Jew with a pock-marked face.
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