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Updated: May 16, 2025
Like Barney Bralligan's song that finished before it begun isn't that the way of it, ma'am?" "It's a goodish len'th of a while," said Mrs. Doherty. "But thin there's the lave; don't be forgettin' the lave, Paddy man. Supposin' we " "Tub be sure, there's the lave. Why, it's skytin' home on lave they do be most continial.
"I'd lep down there and fetch him up aisy enough; on'y there was no mortial use goin' after the cow, for niver a crathur that took its stand on four hoofs 'ud git its own len'th up the cliff, unless it might be some little divil of a goat. And the wather's dhrowndin'-deep alongside it afore now."
Gien 't be that ye mean, Mistress Mellis, " "Hoots!" returned the other. " Hoo far can ye lippen to that Jean o' yours, mem?" "Nae farer nor the len'th o' my nose, an' the breid o' my twa een," was the scornful answer.
"'Shore! says this pinfeather party to Texas Thompson, who, outen pity for him, takes the bridegroom over to the Red Light, to be refreshed; 'shore! while thar's no one that egreegious to go claimin' that my Abby's doo to grade as "cornfed," all the same she's one of the most fascinatin' ladies, that is, an' give her a gun, in all the len'th an' breadth of Arizona.
You just shoved a len'th of quartering into each room, all down the house to the bottom, with a short scaffold-board top and bottom to distribute out the weight, and tapped 'em across with a 'ammer, and there you were! The top one ketched the roof coming down, and you had no need to be apprehensive, because it would take a tidy weight double what Mr. Bartlett was going to put upon it.
This had interested me and I now tried to get something more definite from him. He answered my questions vaguely. "Say, if you're lookin' fur that kind of info," he said at last, "get the almanac or the byciclopedia. These year things slide by so easy I don't get a good pike at one, 'fore another is not more'n a len'th back, 'n' comin' fast." I saw it was useless.
I won'er now what len'th they'd give you for one shillin'?" But Ody, who had not been listening, only said, oracularly: "Och! that's accordin'," which did not materially assist Hugh's speculations.
Yellow ribbons were not plentiful at Ballybrosna fair, and Hugh McInerney had to ask for them vainly at several stalls before he came to an old-clothes cart, where the proprietress, being hot and cross, took him aback by replying: "And who ever heard tell of sellin' ribbons be the len'th, you quare-lookin' stookawn?"
"The Lord likes to be helped along once in a while!" said Mrs. Tree. "Don't tell me! I wasn't born yesterday." And this statement was not to be controverted. "Deacon," said Mrs. Weight, "Mis' Tree is sick!" "Now, reelly!" said the deacon. "Is that so?" "It is so. She sent for Doctor Strong this morning. I saw Direxia go out, and she was gone just the len'th of time to go to the girls' and back.
Pray they did, ye may be sure, an' greit whan a' was mirk, but prayers nor tears made nae differ; the bairn was sent for, an' awa' the bairn maun gang. An' whan at len'th he lay streekit in his last clean claes till the robe o' richteousness 'at wants na washin' was put upon 'im, what cud they but think the warl' was dune for them!
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