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Updated: May 10, 2025
Well, your honour, they waked him as well as they could, with what neighbours they could git togither, but by rason iv the snow, there wasn't enough gothered to make much divarsion; however it was a plisint wake enough, an' the churchyard an' the priest bein' convanient, as soon as the youngsthers had their bit iv fun and divarsion out iv the corpse, they burried it without a great dale iv throuble; an' about three days afther the berrin, ould Jim Mallowney, from th'other side iv the little hill, her own cousin by the mother's side he had a snug bit iv a farm an' a house close by, by the same token kem walkin' in to see how she was in her health, an' he dhrew a chair, an' he sot down an' beginned to convarse her about one thing an' another, antil he got her quite an' asy into middlin' good humour, an' as soon as he seen it was time: 'I'm wondherin', says he, 'Nell Gorman, sich a handsome, likely girl, id be thinkin' iv nothin' but lamintin' an' the likes, says he, 'an' lingerin' away her days without any consolation, or gettin' a husband, says he.
'It's thrue for you, Jim Mallowney, says she, 'but I'm afeard the neighbours will be all talkin' about it, says she. 'Divil's cure to the word, says he. 'An' who would you advise? says she. 'Young Andy Curtis is the boy, says he. 'He's a likely boy in himself, says she. 'An' as handy a gossoon as is out, says he.
'Well, thin, Jim Mallowney, says she, 'here's my hand, an' you may be talkin' to Andy Curtis, an' if he's willin' I'm agreeble is that enough? says she.
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