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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Ay, ay; come oot," and I was pulled out of the window, and an enormous man stood before me, looking at me with a queer smile, and scratching his neck till I could hear the hairs of his whiskers crickle and snap like breaking twigs. "D'ye ken who Major Ewan McBride was?" "No." "Well Dan's faither; he was kilt; he's no in there at a' it's a peety, for things wid hiv been different.
"My dear, it's news to me," cried he, in great wonder, "for never a knock did I knock," and his eyes were laughing down at her. "What!" she cries; "what! And who would be daring?" "That's just what I cannot say, for the lads think ye're no' canny some way, but maistly because the weemen hiv them under their thumbs, so I'm thinkin' it must just have been Hamish."
"Yon milk on the drawers' head an' the bottle of whisky is tae keep up the strength, and this cool caller water is tae keep doon the fever. "We 'ill cast oot the fever by the virtue o' the earth an' the water." "Div ye mean tae pit Saunders in the tub?" "Ye hiv it noo, Drumsheugh, and that's hoo a' need yir help."
Between these idols stand numerous slabs, the zigzag formed representing lightning, the straight ones stalks of corn, etc. On each side of the altar proper stands a large wooden tablet, on which is drawn a picture of the Hiv Katchina, a personage that figures conspicuously in the ceremony on the sixth day, in which children are initiated into the Katchina order.
"I'm thanking God for a fool," said Dan, "if the whins will just burn, but whins are dour revengefu' bushes." "Burn," says Ronny "burn; they'll hiv a bleeze ye'll see for twenty miles we're bate, Dan." "Na, na," says Dan. "Wait you, yonder's a twinkle, anither. Man, they'll mak' a bonny lowe, and waste a heap of good keep."
Some doay Oi'll tell yez about th' big shnakes we hiv in Oireland. Oi hivn't toime to-night." "Und I vill dell you apoud der big Injuns vot dere vos der Rhine on, in Shermany," said Hans. "Maype you haf heardt uf dose poem enditled 'Big Injun on der Rhine, ain'd id?" "Oh, well, that's all right!" said Ned, with a wave of his hand, as if he was not quite pleased.
"Wa-ow!" howled Hans, uttering a wild shriek of pain and terror. "I vos caught in der ped my leg by! Dunder und blitzens! I vos bit mit der toe on!" "Begorra! ye hiv gone crazy, ye son av a Dutch chazemaker! Kape shtill thot howlin', ur " Then Barney's tone suddenly changed, and he let out a yell that would have awakened Rip Van Winkle from his long nap. "Saints defind me!
"You've seed boot-pegs, I recking, Mister Tigg?" "An' shure I hiv. Aren't they the same that's in these suttlers' brogues we've got on bad luck to them?" "Jess the same only whitier when they air new." "Be japers! I think I remimber seein' a barrel full ov thim in New Yark." "Very certing it were them they air usooaly packed in berr'ls. Can you think o' anything they looked like?"
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