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What's this?" exclaimed Corson, tapping an iron door, such as closes a warehouse against fire. "It's locked, sure enough," said Owens, after trial. "It must be the place we are looking for," I said. "Search those men for keys." The search was without result. "It's a sledge we must get," said Owens, starting to look about for one. "Hould on," said Corson, "I was near forgetting.

"Hould on, bhoy!" he said, with all an old policeman's fussiness over rightful procedure. "Du not touch! That is th' coroner's bizness. Did they not dhrill that inta yeh at Regina?" He stared thoughtfully at the corpse. "Dhrink an' th' divil! eyah! dhrink an' th' divil!" sadly.

Look at the ould man and the ould woman there see them tremblin'. Don't cry don't cry; but they are see the widow there wid her orphans there's a sick boy in that house, and a poor sick girl in that other house see, they're all cryin' all cryin' for they must go out, and on sich a day! All that, now, is upon these two other pages, bekaise, you see, no one page would hould all that.

The simple pathos of the tune, the affection implied by the words, and probably the misfortune of Willy Reilly, all overcame him, He finished the second verse with difficulty, and on attempting to commence a third he burst into tears. "Colleen bawn! Oh, will ye hould your tongues, an' let me think of what has happened me? She's gone: Mary, avourneen, isn't she gone from us?

"And you with such a beautiful front of black, Peggy, my dear," the Major cried. "Hould your tongue, Mick, you booby. Them husbands are always in the way, Mrs. Osborne, my dear; and as for my Mick, I often tell him he should never open his mouth but to give the word of command, or to put meat and drink into it. I'll tell you about the regiment, and warn you when we're alone. Mr.

Then I spoke sumthing whereby I gaue them to understand that she did so becase she knew of ye sword, whereupon Danil made a sine to Thomas Austen to hould ye sword again yt she might not know of it, wch he did & then she did not laugh at all nor chang her countenance. Further in discourse I hard Daniel Wescot say yt when he pleased he could take her out of her fits.

'Will I give up my public or hould fast to it to keep it out of worse hands? And I'm strong to believe the Lord hath spoken. 'It's a little vineyard a little work in a little vineyard. Stick to it, Cæsar, and so I will." Pete stepped into the kitchen and flung his news at Cæsar with a sort of wild melancholy, as who would say, "There, is that enough for you? Are you satisfied now?"

"Well, I'll expound it: phthisic, you see, manes whisht, boys: will yez hould yer tongues there phthisic, Larry, signifies that is, phthisic mind, it's not physic I'm expounding, but phthisic boys, will yez stop yer noise there signifies but, Larry, it's so deep a word in larnin' that I should draw it out on a slate for you.

I mane if ye say any timbers or spars from the wrack drifting inshore, just you hould your eye on thim, or the divil a mother's son ye'll have a roof over his hid or a pace of foire to warm his-self! Faix, ye needn't snigger, ye spalpeens; it's the truth I'm afther tellin' ye!" and Mr McCarthy then went off, shaking his fist good-humouredly at those who laughed at his quaint speech.

"If you were near my cane, you old scoundrel, I'd pay you for your impertinence, ay would I." "Ould scoundrel, is it? Oh, hould your tongue; I'm not of your blood, thank God! and don't be fastenin' your name upon me. Ould scoundrel, indeed! Troth, we could spare an odd one now and then out of our own little establishment."