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Ah, Briney, my poor fellow, ye'll never be the cut of a man yer father was; but no matther, avourneen, ye'll be a betther man, I hope; and God knows you may asy be that, for Father Philemy, I'm not what I ought to be, yer Reverence; however, I may mend, and will, maybe, before a month of Sundays goes over me: but, for all that, Briney, I hope to see the day when you'll be sitting an ordained priest at my own table; if I once saw that, I could die contented so mind yer larning, acushla, and, his Reverence here will back you, and make inthorest to get you into the college.
Any man wid any larning at all, can see de billet is intend for Missa Judge Bernard." He saw by the distended eyes of Mr. Qui that his guess had struck the mark, and fearful of being requested to decipher the other superscriptions, hastily added: "But what for I stop here, wasting my precious time, and keeping you from doing you master's arrant? I hab de honor to wish you good marning, Missa Qui."
"'Indeed you shan't, sais mother; 'you have got something better to do than larning her; and as for Gaelic I can't bear it. It's a horrid outlandish language, and of no earthly use whatever under the blessed sun. It's worse than Indian. "'Do, Sam, said father; 'it's an act of kindness, and she is an orphan, and besides, Gaelic may be of great use to you in life.
"Parish!" repeated the man bitterly. "I were brought up by the parish myself and a nice job they made o' me!" "Don't you find him a great trouble?" "Trouble!" exclaimed the man. "Lewis ain't no trouble not a bit never was, and he's great company when I'm on the move from one town to another larning to talk a'ready."
It ain't none of my doing, for I've been a good sarvant to you if I haven't had much book larning. It's that there dratted borrowing, that's what it is, and the interest and all the rest on it, and though I says it as didn't ought, poor Mr. James, God rest him and his free-handed ways. Don't you say it's me, Squire."
He's picking up plenty of information, you be sure things that will be useful bimebye: the value of money, the shortness o' the distance it travels, the hardness o' Moor ground, an' men's hearts, an' such-like branches of larning. Let him bide, an' trust me." The mother was rendered at once uneasy and elated by this speech.
"Pether, you think you're a scholar, and, to do you justice, you're cute enough sometimes; but, Pether, you didn't travel for it, as I did nor were you obliged to lep out of a college windy in Paris, at the time of the French Revolution, for your larning, as I was: not you, man, you ate the king's mutton comfortably at home in Maynooth, instead of travelling like your betters."
"Get a rope with a loop, noose him, and drag him up," cried Ralph. "Eh? Hear him, Ram? Who'd ha' thought of that? Comes o' larning, that does, and going away to school. You'd never ha' thought on it, lad." "Nay, I shouldn't ha' thought o' that," said Ram heavily; "but I've been thinking o' somethin' else." "What?" said Ralph, as they were mounting the last fifty feet of the steep slope.
Before he had finished talking, one of the lieutenants of the hospital sent for him; and Ben remained behind, to point out to me how valuable my knowing how to read and write might one day prove to me. "I've no larning myself Jack," said he; "and I know the loss of it.
In a leather-bound Bible was seen this rhyme: "Evert Jonson His book God Give him Grase thair in to look not only to looke but to understand that Larning is better than Hous or Land When Land is Gon & Gold is spent then larning is most Axelant When I am dead & Rotton If this you see Remember me Though others is forgotton." Different portions of this script have been seen in many books.
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