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The attitude of the O'Callaghan's toward him always touched him. His money had nothing to do with it, nor had his superior social position. It was he himself that the O'Callaghans respected, admired, loved and venerated, and this without in the least abating their own self-respect and independence. It was like being the head of a clan, the General told himself, and he liked it.
The toime may come when you can do some big thing for 'em, but the toime's roight here when you can sweep and cook and wash dishes for 'em, and make 'em aisy and comfortable, and so lingthen out their days. Moike goin' to the store gives Andy a chance to show that the O'Callaghans knows how to be grateful. And, Moike, you'll be takin' home another goose for 'em when you go.
The O'Callaghans, Lords of Cinel-Aedha, in the south of Cork, were driven into the mountains of Duhallow, where they rallied and held their ground for four centuries; the O'Sullivans, originally settled along the Suir, about Clonmel, were forced towards the mountain seacoast of Cork and Kerry, where they acquired new vigour in the less fertile soil of Beare and Bantry.
That's an Irishman's music; and hard fortune to the garran* that wouldn't have friendship and kindness in him to join and play a stave along with them! 'Whoo; your sowl! Hurroo! Success to our side! Hi for the O'Callaghans!
He was a powerful bulliah battha * in his day and never met a man able to fight him, except big Mucldemurray, who stood before him the greater part of an hour and a half, in the fair of Knockimdowny, on the day that the first great fight took place twenty years afther the hard, frost between the O'Callaghans and the O'Hallaghans.
For the first twenty minutes the general harmony of this fine row might be set to music, according to a scale something like this: Whick whack crick crack whick whack crick crack &c, &c, &o. 'Hurroo for the O'Callaghans! 'Mur-ther! murther! Blood and turf! "You are to suppose them, here to have been at it for about half an hour. "'Oh! for the love of.
On with you, O'Callaghans on with you on with you, Paddy O'Callaghan's murdhered take to the stones that's it keep it up, down with: him! Success! he's the bloody villain that: didn't show him marcy that's it. Tunder-an-ouns, is it laving him that way you are afther let me at him! "'Here's a stone, Tom! "'No, no, this stick has the lead in it. It'll do him, never fear!
"One of your O'Callaghans, General," was the laughing answer. The General flushed. Then he beckoned to Jim, who immediately came in. "Go back to the stove and get warm, my boy," he said. "You look cold." Jim obeyed and presently the General's friend went out. "Now, my boy," said the General, walking back to the stove, "what did you mean by following me?"
Many a boast the O'Hallaghan's made, before the quarrelling between us and them commenced, that they'd sweep the streets with the fighting O'Callaghans, which was an epithet that was occasionally applied to our family. We differed, however, materially from them; for we were honorable, never starting out in dozens on a single man or two, and beating him into insignificance.
"'Let him alone, Barney, he's got enough. "'By the powdhers, it's myself that won't: didn't he kill Paddy? "'Oh! Man for man, boys an O'Hallaghan's done for whoo! for our side tol-deroll, folderoll, tow, row, row huzza! fol-deroll, fol-deroll, tow, row, row, huzza for the O'Callaghans!
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