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Bad luck to him the devil fly away wid him oh! ha I ha! oh! ha! ha! murdher hard fortune to me, but little Mickey Geery fell, an' thripped the masther, an' himself's, disabled now his black breeches split too look at him feelin' them oh! oh! ha! ha! by tare-an'-onty, Callaghan will be murdhered, if they cotch him."

"I wouldn't have the ruffian murthered, Pat; you don't think I want to have him murthered?" "Whist, Mr. Thady; may be the children about in the trees there would hear you. Who says anything of murdher?

"Bekaise, afther all, there is a difference; and it doesn't folly that, although I'd purshue the villain for life and death, that 'ud attempt to murdher you, that I'd distress myself to secure an honest man that might free us an' the country from the like o' him;" and he pointed over his left shoulder with his inverted thumb.

Well, wid that, ma'am, he sent for Miss Anty, and the moment she comes in, he locks to the door, and pulls her to the sofa, and swears outright that he'll murdher her av' she don't swear, by the blessed Mary and the cross, that she'll niver dhrame of marrying no one." "Who tould you all this, Biddy? was it herself?"

It's surprisin' the foolery there does be in people." "Och, murdher, women alive!" said Ody Rafferty, whose pipe went out at this moment, "there's no contintin' yous at all. It's too cute they are, and too foolish they are. Musha, very belike they're not so much off the common if you'd a thrifle more exparience of them; there's nothin' to match that for evenin' people.

"That will do," replied her daughter, calmly; "that sounds like murdher from a mother's lips! Lay me down now, Biddy." Mave, who had scarcely ever taken her eyes from off her varying and busy features, was now struck by a singular change which she observed come over them a change that was nothing but the shadow of death, and cannot be described.

The Orangemen can shoot the troops, and the troops can shoot the Orangemen, and they can murdher each other to their heart's contint, and fight like Kilkenny cats, till there's nothin' left but the tail. And good enough for the likes of them. Sure, twill be great divarshun for them that looks on. And that's the way of it, d'ye mind me?"

"Hould him," shrieked a voice, which proceeded from his daughter, "hould my father or he'll murdher him! Oh! oh! merciful Heaven!" Ere the words were uttered she had made an attempt to clasp the arms of her parent, whose motions she understood; but only in time to receive from the pistol which he had concealed in his breast, the bullet aimed at her uncle!

'I'll tell you the way it happened, he resumed. ''Tis a good while now, ay twenty-two years; your noble father's dead these twenty-two years and upwards. 'Twas a bad murdher, Sir: they wor both bad murdhers. I look on it, he's a murdhered man. 'He who? demanded the young man. 'Your father, Sir. 'My father murdered? said Mervyn. 'Well, I see no great differ; I see none at all.

"Faith, it's a thrue as gospel, your honor. Says I, 'Ellish, you beauty'" "I thought," observed Mr. Eccles, "that she sometimes drew the long bow, Peter." "Oh, murdher alive, sir, it was only in regard of her crassin' in an' whippin' the word out o' my mouth, that I wanted to take a rise out of her. Oh, bedad, sir, no; the crathur's thruth to the backbone, an' farther if I'd say it."