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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Why, we'd have taken the ball at the hop," said Barny, laughing, "accordin' to the ould sayin'." Another shot was ineffectually fired. Again the report of the gun was followed by no damage. "Augh! never heed them!" said Barny, contemptuously. "'It's a barkin' dog that never bites, as the owld sayin' says." And the hooker was soon out of reach of further annoyance.
"That Indian has carried Cora away!" was the agonized reply. "Where has the owld divil carried her?" very naturally asked the Hibernian. "I do not know! I do not know! but she has gone, and I fear we shall never see her again alive."
"Not so cur'ous neither," replied the man, with some feeling; "it's my opinion, the further a man goes from the owld country, and the rougher he becomes wi' scrapin' up and down through the world, the more tinder his heart gits when he thinks o' his mother.
"Och, shure now, Mr. S, who'd think of looking at an owld crathar like me! It's only yorsel' that would notice the like." "All the world, every body would look at you, Jenny. I believe that you put on those hats to draw the attention of all the young fellows that we shall happen to meet on the road. Ha, Jenny!"
I niver did think to see t' day that I mud lave th' owld place but I doubt it's nigh at hand! This lamentation drew no notice from me: I went briskly to work, sighing to remember a period when it would have been all merry fun; but compelled speedily to drive off the remembrance.
"Oh, wirra, wirra!" said Andy. "Aren't you my wife? Why did you marry me?" "Did I want owld Jack Dwyer to murther me as soon as the people's backs was turned?" said Matty. "But though I'm afraid of him, I'm not afraid of you!" "Och!" cried poor Andy, "what'll be the end of it?" There was a tap at the door as he spoke, and Matty ran and opened it.
An' now, Heller, do tell these poor, benighted, lazy loons that I must have me coky-nuts fresh, an' as great a variety av fish as can be procured in these wathers. The chap that preshumes to bring me an owld coky-nut I'll curse his basket an' his shtore." After a brief missionary effort, Heller reported that the whole population of the island, barring a few obstinate seniors, had been baptized.
A loud explosion of mirth drowned the rest. "Hurrah! for Queen Lynch," cried one. "The Royal blood of owld Ireland for ivver!" shouted Malone. "I wouldn't," said the widow indignantly, "condescind to reign over sitch a nation o' pigs, av ye was to go down on yer bare knees an' scrape them to the bone.
I suppose ye know the mail's comed in yisterday morning; so says I to myself this mornin', `Ye've got no livin' sowl in the owld country that's likely to write to ye, but ye better go, for all that, an' ax if there's letters.
Josey was a little dazed about it all and could not be brought to realise that 'th' owld Squire's gel' might never rise from her bed again.
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