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Updated: May 31, 2025
"'I'm sorry for this, he observed; 'but it's now self-defence with me; and at the same moment, with one blow, he left Tom O'Hallaghan stretched insensible on the street. "On the O'Hallaghans being driven to the church-yard, they were at a mighty great inconvenience for weapons.
"'Where's the rascally O'Callaghan that will place his toe or his shillely on this frieze? 'Is there no blackguard O'Hallaghan jist to look crucked at the coat of an O'Callaghan, or say black's the white of his eye? "'Troth and there is, Ned, avourneen, that same on the sod here. "'Is that Barney? "'The same, Ned, ma bouchal; and how is your mother's son, Ned?
And when they'd get drunk in a fair, it was nothing but 'Whoo! for the O'Hallaghans! and leaping yards high off the pavement, brandishing their cudgels over their heads, striking their heels against their hams, tossing up their hats; and when all would fail, they'd strip off their coats, and trail them up and down the street, shouting, 'Who dare touch the coat of an O'Hallaghan?
"Kind reader, without a single disrespectful insinuation against any portion of the fair sex, you may judge what Rose O'Hallaghan must have been, when even these three were necessitated to praise her in her absence! "'Why, asked Rose, 'what makes you say that? "'Bekase, replied the other, I've a rason for it.
"When the three young women, whom we have already introduced to our respectable readers, had evacuated the chapel, they determined to substantiate a certitude, as far as their observation could reach, as to the truth of what Kitty Carroll had hinted at, in reference to John O'Callaghan's attachment to Rose Galh O'Hallaghan, and her taciturn approval of it.
Paddy O'Hallaghan and his family had been stationed for some time on the bank, watching the success of the plan; and as it appeared not to be attended with any particular danger, they also determined to make the attempt. About a perch below the planks stood John O'Callaghan, watching the progress of those who were crossing them, but taking no part in what was going forward.
Now, John was as fine a young man as you would meet in a day's traveling; and as for Rose, her name went far and near for beauty: and with justice, for the sun never shone on a fairer, meeker, or modester virgin than Rose Galh O'Hallaghan.
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