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"Well, I'd sooner he had her than the other one, for he's one of ourselves anyhow, and the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know." "Angus Og is a god," said the Philosopher severely. "I know that, sir," replied Meehawl; "it's only a way of talking I have.
"I did not," said the Philosopher. "Did you leave out a pan of milk on last Tuesday?" "I did then." "Do you take off your hat when you meet a dust twirl?" "I wouldn't neglect that," said Meehawl. "Did you cut down a thorn bush recently?" "I'd sooner cut my eye out," said Meehawl, "and go about as wall-eyed as Lorcan O'Nualain's ass: I would that. Did you ever see his ass, sir? It "
"In its proper place I admit the necessity for water. As an element wherewith to put out a fire, or brew tea, or make a slide in winter it is useful, but in a tin basin it has a repulsive and meagre aspect. Now as to your wife's washboard " "Good luck to your honour," said Meehawl. "Your wife says that either the fairies or a woman with a goat's leg has it." "It's her whiskers," said Meehawl.
It is true that they will utilize water in a variety of ways, for instance, the destruction of a tablecloth or a pinafore, and I have observed them greasing a ladder with soap, showing in the process a great knowledge of the properties of this material." "Why shouldn't they, to be sure?" said Meehawl MacMurrachu. "Have you got a match, sir?" "I have not," said the Philosopher.
"I do not," said the Philosopher. "No matter," said Meehawl MacMurrachu. "She didn't take it, because my wife got her out yesterday and kept her talking for two hours while I went through everything in her bit of a house the washboard wasn't there." "It wouldn't be," said the Philosopher. "Maybe your honour could tell a body where it is then?"
"They are lame," said the Philosopher sternly. "Have it your own way, sir, I'm not certain now how the creature is afflicted." "You say that this unhealthy woman has not got your wife's washboard. It remains, therefore, that the fairies have it." "It looks that way," said Meehawl.
"There are six clans of fairies living in this neighbourhood; but the process of elimination, which has shaped the world to a globe, the ant to its environment, and man to the captaincy of the vertebrates, will not fail in this instance either." "Did you ever see anything like the way wasps have increased this season?" said Meehawl; "faith, you can't sit down anywhere but your breeches "
He did not know what had become of her, and the facts he had to lay before his adviser were very few. He left the Thin Woman of Inis Magrath taking snuff under a pine tree and went into the house. "God be with all here," said he as he entered. "God be with yourself, Meehawl MacMurrachu," said the Philosopher.
"The person who would deny that " said Meehawl. "Female children, however, have the particular sanction of nature. They are produced in astonishing excess over males, and may, accordingly, be admitted as dominant to the male; but the well-proven law that the minority shall always control the majority will relieve our minds from a fear which might otherwise become intolerable."
ON the day following this melancholy occurrence Meehawl MacMurrachu, a small farmer in the neighbourhood, came through the pine trees with tangled brows. At the door of the little house he said, "God be with all here," and marched in. The Philosopher removed his pipe from his lips-"God be with yourself," said he, and he replaced his pipe.
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