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Updated: May 10, 2025
Then he has such a laning to it, you see, that the crathur 'ud ground an argument on anything, thin draw it out to a norration an' make it as clear as rock-water, besides incensing you so well into the rason of the thing, that Father Finnerty himself 'ud hardly do it betther from the althar." The highest object of an Irish peasant's ambition is to see his son a priest.
By his tellin', ther fust Alexander whaled blazes outen all creation an' then sot down an' cried like a baby because ther job he'd done went an' petered out on him. Ter me, thet norration savers right strong of a damn lie." Brent nodded as he smilingly replied, "I've read of that first Alexander, but he's been dead a good many centuries."
Howandiver, wishing I was like them, in regard ov the sup ov dhrink, anyhow, I must brake off my norration for the prisint; but when I see you again, I'll tell you how Father Tom made a hare ov the Pope that evening, both in theology and the cube root. Well, the lecther's over, and I'm kilt out and out. My bitther curse be upon the man that invinted the same Boord!
"'God he sees, says my mother-in-law, 'that there's them here this day we didn't desarve this from, to rise such a norration, as if the house was a shebeen or a public-house! It's myself didn't think either me or my poor coolleen here, not to mention the dacent people she's joined to, would be made so little of, as to have our place turned into a play-acthur for a play-acthur couldn't be worse.
It's the wondher of the world how he picks up a jinteel thing any how, an' ever did, since he was the hoith o' that." "Why," said the mother, "what a norration yez rise about thratin' the boy as every one like him ought to be thrated.
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