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Now, Dinny, let us have a hate at histhory." "A hate at histhory? wid all my heart; but before we begin, I tell you that I'll confound you precipitately; for you see, if you bate me in the English, I'll scarify you wid Latin, and give you a bang or two of Greek into the bargain. Och!
Well is it histhory we are to begin wid? If it is, come on advance. I'm ready for you in protection wid my guards up." "Ha, ha, ha! Well, if he isn't the drollest crathur, an' so cute! But now for the histhory. Can you prove to me, upon a clear foundation, the differ atween black an' white, or prove that Phadrick Murray here, long life to him, is an ass?
If they had let me alone till I'd publish to the world my Treatise upon Conic Sections but to be cut off on my march to fame! another draught of the hydraulics, Nancy, an' then for the priest But see, bring Father Connell, the curate, for he understands something about Matthew-maticks; an' never heed Father Roger, for divil a thing he knows about them, not even the difference between a right line and a curve in the page of histhory, to his everlasting disgrace, be the same recorded!"
There's one thing I'd like to see if ye have it. Like you, I am a pathriotic Irishman, and take deloight in relics appertaining to the histhory of me counthry. Tell me now, have ye the horsewhip, the thunderin' big horsewhip, that young McDermot, of Thrinity College, used when he administhered condign punishment to Tim Healy? Have ye that, now?" The County Clare man was completely knocked out.
"Then rade up the histhory of Ireland," replied the old lady flattered. Close observation of the present proved more interesting and amusing than the study of the past. Quincy Livingstone's strictures on the exiles of Erin stirred them to the depths, and his refusal to float the green flag from the city hall brought a blossoming of green ribbon on St.
An' what is still more, he could, by shuttin' your eyes, in the same way prove black to be white, an' white black, jist as asy." "Surely myself doesn't doubt it. I suppose, by shuttin' my eyes, the same lad could prove anything to me." "But, Dinny, avourneen, you didn't prove Phadrick to be an ass yit. Will you do that by histhory, too, Dinny, or by the norrations of Illocution?"
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