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Updated: June 29, 2025
So of him chiefly they sought counsel and direction so much so that old Diarmid, quick to notice what made for the good of his farm, caused Rob Dickson to act as a kind of "grieve" during the time of harvest, when the land was overrun with "Islanders," "Paddies" and "Paipes" for the religious hatred, though never crossing the North Channel, has yet made of the Irish Catholic in Wigtonshire a hewer of wood and a drawer of water to his Presbyterian masters.
Late in the afternoon I left father down in the garden with young Nickols, to whom he was confiding the care of some very choice hollyhock seeds that would need gathering in the next few weeks. "Your father got them from England," the judge said gravely, as he showed the small paddies how to roll out the thin seed without crushing them.
"Plenty of paddies on all the streams about here," replied the native. "And they can't oondershtand Kilkenny Greek! They're moighty quare paddies, thin." "They are; and I am very sure they won't answer you when you speak to them with that brogue," added Louis. "We will let that discussion rest till we come to the paddies," interposed the captain, as he completed his toilet, and left the cabin.
"A field of rice!" "Achang will tell you that is what they call them in Borneo." "Bad luck to such Paddies as they are! But it looks as though there might be some Paddies here, for the houses are very neat and nice, just as you see in old Ireland." "Certainly they are; but I never saw any such in Ireland," added Louis.
"Now, I'll take you girlies upstairs," Mrs. Bryant chatted on, taking Marjorie and Kitty each by a hand; "and I'll brush your hair and wash your paddies, and fix you up all nice for supper." Marjorie couldn't help laughing at this. "Don't let us make you too much trouble, Mrs. Bryant," she said. "You know we're quite big girls, and we tie each other's ribbons." "Bless me! Is that so?
But, Achang, is there any game in the woods we see beyond the paddies?" "Sometimes there is plenty of it; at others there is scarcely any. You can get squirrels here and some birds." "Any orang-outangs?" "We found none when we came up the river, for this is not the best place for them. If we run up the Sadong and Samujan Rivers, you will find some," replied the Bornean.
"Let him yawp, Capm," interposed Glover. "It's a way they hev, as he says. Never see two Paddies together but what they got to fightin' or pokin' fun at each other. Me an' Sweeny won't quarrel. I take his clickatyclack for what it's worth by the cart-load. 'Twon't hurt me. Dunno but what it's good for me." "Bedad, it's betther for ye nor yer own gruntin'," added the irrepressible Irishman.
And we got a lot of gossip about the feudal wars and faction-fights among the nobility, and so on, all garbled, because these people are peasants who only knew what went on on the estate of their own lord." "What did go on there?" Vall asked. "Ask them about recent improvements, new buildings, new fields cleared, new paddies flooded, that sort of thing.
I was a dyer's helper in Pyonhan, a gold- miner in the placers of Kang-wun, a rope-maker and twine-twister in Chiksan. I plaited straw hats in Padok, gathered grass in Whang-hai, and in Masenpo sold myself to a rice farmer to toil bent double in the flooded paddies for less than a coolie's pay.
Since she keeps a distressed women's agency office, I've come to consult her about Marianne. That woman will die before six months are out, a victim to high civilization and the Paddies.
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