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His Uncle William had taken him up to Belfast one market-day, and that Friday was made memorable to him forever because his Uncle had said to him, "Well, boy, what would you like to do?" and had consented, without demur, to cross the Lagan in the ferry-boat.
"At the Admiralty." "What department?" "The Sea Prize Department." "Well?" "The department is subdivided into three offices Lagan, Flotsam, and Jetsam and in each there is an officer." "And then?"
She lives up near the Lagan ... out Stranmillis way!..." "I know it well," said Uncle Matthew. "Is she a fair girl or a dark girl?" "She has the loveliest golden hair you ever clapped your eyes on. It was that made me fall in love with her!..." "You're in love with her then! You're not just going with her?" "Of course I'm in love with her. I never was in the habit of just going with girls.
"Best speech y'ever heard," Gohawk interjected; "just emptied the words out, split 'em like peas, by gol! till he got to one place right before the end. Then he pulled up sudden, and it got so quiet you could 'a heard a pin drop. 'Gen'lemen of the jury, says Freddy Tarlton here gen'lemen, by gol! all that lot Lagan and the rest!
At Drumbo, on the east bank of the Lagan before it reaches Belfast Lough, there is a massive cromlech surrounded by a wide ring of earth piled up high enough to cut off the sacred space within from all view of the outer world. Like the earthwork round the cromlech of Lough Rea, it marks the boundary of a great nature temple, open to the sky but shut off from mankind.
"Best speech y'ever heard," Gohawk interjected; "just emptied the words out, split 'em like peas, by gol! till he got to one place right before the end. Then he pulled up sudden, and it got so quiet you could 'a heard a pin drop. 'Gen'lemen of the jury, says Freddy Tarlton here gen'lemen, by gol! all that lot Lagan and the rest!
It was the year 637, and preparations had long gone on on both sides for a final trial of strength. Congal had recruited numerous bands of Saxons, Britons, Picts and Argyle Scots, who poured into the Larbours of Down for months, and were marshalled on the banks of the Lagan, to sustain his cause. The Poets of succeeding ages have dwelt much in detail on the occurrences of this memorable day.
I'd put my overcoat on top of the quilt if I were you!..." They stood for a time looking across the Lagan at the shipyard, and talked about the possibility of Ninian Graham entering the shipbuilding firm, and then they moved to the side of the boat that was against the quay-wall. The hour at which the steamer was to depart was drawing near and the number of passengers had increased.
In Belfast, you speak of the Lagan ... never of the river. The same in Dublin. They speak of the Liffey ... never of the river. John's become a Londoner. He knows the proper way to speak of the Thames!" "London seems to be full of very conceited and unneighbourly people," Mrs. MacDermott said. John demanded information of his mother. How were Uncle William and Mr.
He and Tyrone held an amicable and unwitnessed conference at a ford of the little river Lagan, at which the enemies of the viceroy did not scruple afterwards to assert that treason had been concocted. What, at any rate, is certain is that Essex agreed to an armistice, which, with so overwhelming a force at his own disposal, naturally awakened no little anger and astonishment.
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