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"The intellects of the Frinch are so handsome!" cried O'Kimmon, the tears of delighted laughter in his eyes. "Faix, that is what makes 'em so close kin to the Oirish!" Soon their presence seemed a matter of course. The Indians had recurred to their methods of suave hospitality.
Oh the crame av disruption is an Oirish rig'mint, an' rippin', tearin', ragin' scattherers in the field av war! My first rig'mint was Oirish Faynians an' rebils to the heart av their marrow was they, an' so they fought for the Widdy betther than most, bein' contrairy Oirish. They was the Black Tyrone. You've heard av thim, sorr?" Heard of them!
"Sure!" says Biddy. "An' they do be a hundred toimes bigger an' foiner than these wans. The feathers o' thim shoines in the sun loike silver and gowld, an' their oyes is loike jools, an' they do be floying fasther then the ships can sail. If ye was only seein' some o' thim rale Oirish gulls, ye'd think no more o' these little wans!"
If it's help ye nade, I guess we might be able to scrape up a shooter apiece. We lug 'em along for ballast, ye understand, in the absence o' fire-water. If it's a foighter ye're talking like, ivery devil of a mother's son of us can make a bang like a gun, with a bullet t'rowed in though for meself I prefer a shillalah. I'm going to be in this foight if I have to use a lead pencil. Ain't I Oirish?"
"I don't think that there is much harm in it under the present circumstances," Terence laughed. "It is not sport, but it is food. I am afraid, Tim, that you must have been poaching a good deal at home or you would never have thought of buying lime before starting on this march." "I would scorn to take in an Oirish fish, yer honour!" Hoolan said, indignantly.
Pickwick said: "It is punch." He made casual examination of the green and gold label. "'Burke's Oirish, begob! . . . eyah! a brave ould uniform but" he turned a moist eye on his subordinate "a desp'ritly wounded souldier that wears ut betther out av pain. 'Tis an' ould sayin': 'Whin ye meet th' divil du not turn tail but take um by th' harns. . . . Bhoy!
And Bridget was the name iv an Oirish saint! This must be shtopped. Mr. O'Shea declared he would rather die than allow it to continue. No further particulars are given, but it is understood that the viper had been christened "Tim Healy," the rattlesnake "O'Brien," the laughing hyæna John Dillon, and so on.
I can undershtand Frinch like a native so I shall know everything that you say but begorra the Oirish brogue of me makes it difficult for thim froggies to undershtand me when I shpake to thim." "All right," I answered, perfectly easy in my mind, "you can stand alongside me, and hear everything that passes."
Never made himself too common nor free, but there he was, allus the gen'leman with you what you may call nice." "Reg'lar true-born Englishman, I say," said another. "Nay, just aye like a young Scot," said another. "Hark at that!" said another, looking round defiantly; "it's of Oirish descent he is. Isn't his name Carey?" "What!" cried another, angrily. "Carey Carew.
How dast ye? She begun lookin' around for a club, so I talked fast. "'It's my religion, ma'am, says I. 'I'm a Mormon by profession, mixed with accident. Think a minute before you do somethin' that'll cause general regret. "'Well, she says, calmin' down, 'is there e'er an Oirish leddy in the lot? "'Not one, up till this joyful present, I answers.
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