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No one answered, and the lecturer went on to tell of the advantages that would come to the poultry-keeper whose eggs were hatched in December. As she said this, the priest's eyes fell upon Biddy M'Hale, and, seeing that she was smiling, he asked her if there was any reason why eggs could not be hatched in the beginning of January.
Donovan The Parish Priest of Swinford Evictions The Morning Chronicle on them Spread and Increase of Famine The question of providing coffins Deaths at Skibbereen Extent of the Famine in 1846 Deaths in Mayo Cases Edward M'Hale Skibbereen The diary of a day Swelling of the extremities Burning beds for fuel Mr.
I don't see one of you taking notes, not even you, Biddy M'Hale, though you have made a fortune out of your hins. Didn't I tell you from the pulpit that you were to bring pencil and paper and write down all you heard. If you had known years ago all this young lady is going to tell you you would be rolling in your carriages to-day."
With a larder supplied and a cellar well stored, None lived half so well, from Fair-Head to Kinsale, As he piously said, "I've a plentiful board, And the Lord he is good to old Larry M'Hale." So fill up your glass, and a high bumper give him, It's little we'd care for the tithes or repale; For ould Erin would be a fine country to live in, If we only had plenty like LARRY M'HALE.
As he got up to go to work he caught sight of Biddy M'Hale coming up the road; he rushed past her lest she should ask him what he was crying about, and she stood looking after him for a moment, and went into the cabin to inquire what had happened. "Sure she wouldn't let her husband sleep with her last night," said Mrs. M'Shane, "and you'll be telling the priest that.
The woman died, and so poor were the people of the locality, that for want of a few boards to make a coffin, she remained uninterred for eight days. There is a melancholy peculiarity in the case of a young lad named Edmond M'Hale. When he had been a considerable time without food, he became, or seemed to become, delirious.
It's little he cared for the judge or recorder, His house was as big and as strong as a jail; With a cruel four-pounder, he kept in great order, He'd murder the country, would Larry M'Hale. He'd a blunderbuss too, of horse-pistols a pair; But his favorite weapon was always a flail. I wish you could see how he'd empty a fair, For he handled it neatly, did Larry M'Hale.
Are the parliamentary nominees of M'Hale and Kehoe more germane to the feelings of the English nation, more adapted to represent their interests, than the parliamentary nominees of a Howard or a Percy?
I'll be going," said Biddy, and she was many yards down the road before he could say a word. "Now, Biddy M'Hale, don't you be going." But Biddy pretended not to hear him. "Will I be running after her," said Pat, "and bringing her back?" "No, let her go.
"I'm four tumblers too low for that yet," growled out the major. "Well, then, Charley, be you the man; or why not Dennis himself? Come, Dennis, we cannot better begin our evening than with a song; let us have our old friend 'Larry M'Hale." "Larry M'Hale!" resounded from all parts of the room, while O'Shaughnessy rose once more to his legs.
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