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'How did you get on? says he. 'Och, says the poor Gout" and here Pat assumed a tone of extreme weakness and exhaustion "'it's near killed I am altogether; I never put in such a time in me life. 'Well, for that matther, says the Spider, 'I might say the same; but what happened to ye at all? Tell me all about it in the name of goodness, says he.
'So says his Raverince, says he: "I'll take my booke," says he, "an' I'll read some rale sthrong holy bits out iv it," says he, "an' do you get a rope and put it round the hamper," says he, "an' let it swing over the runnin' wather at the bridge," says he, "an' it's no matther if I don't make the spirit come out iv it," says he.
"Will you let the people be far behind in their dues, Denis?" inquired Brian. "No, no leave that point to my management. Depend upon it, I'll have them like mice before me ready to run into the first augerhole they meet. I'll collect lots of oats, and get as much yarn every year as would clothe three regiments of militia, or, for that matther, of dragoons.
"Every night in the year, Nancy, exceptin' Sundays; and what was more, the horse along with him for he used to come ridin' at midnight upon the same garran; and it was no matther what place or company the other 'ud be in, the ould Square would come reglarly, and crave him for what he owed him."
"What," he exclaimed to himself, "can be the matther with that woman, that made her look at me in sich a way a while agone? I could not mistake her eye. She surely knows more than I thought, or she would not fix her eye into mine as she did. Could there be anything in that dhrame about Dalton an' my coffin? Hut! that's nonsense.
"Ay is it, every inch," said old O'Beirne. "And too long a thramp for you altogether, sir, if I might make so free." "For the matther of that," said the ragged old man, proudly, "I've walked the double of it, and more, times and agin, widout so much as considherin'. But your road's a bit heavy to-night, wid the snow and could."
"It's no matther about thim things," replied Anthony; "it's thruth about the dead-watch, my mother keepin' warm, an' Shibby's death, any way, But on the night we tuck Cassidy's horse, I thought you were goin' to betray us: I was surely in a murdherin' passion, an' would have done harm, only things turned out as they did."
We convict no innocent men an' very few guilty wans, perjury is unknown amongst us, we have no military scandals, an' our private life is beyond rebuke. So we have th' time an' th' inclination to study th' vile offences iv our neighbors, an' give thim advice free iv cost. An' that is why I'm here to-day in this degraded counthry to tell ye what's th' matther with ye an' what ye ought to do.
"A couple iv weeks ago he see Jawn an' they had a long talk about it. 'Cassidy, says Jawn, 'ye've been a good frind iv mine, he says, 'an' I'd do annything in the wurruld f'r ye, no matther what it cost ye, he says. 'If ye need a little money to tide over th' har-rd times till th' ligislachure meets again buy' an' he whispered in Cassidy's ear. 'But, he says,'don't tell annywan.
'Faith, I did not, says th' good man. 'I was in too much iv a hurry to get away. 'What was th' matther? ast Hogan. 'I had me uniform to brush up an' me soord to polish, says Father Kelly.
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