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If a body of "Papishes" of the bloodiest kind were to come upon Crossan and capture him; if they were to condemn him to death and, being God-fearing men, were to allow him half an hour in which to make his soul; he would spend the time, not in saying his prayers, not even in cursing the Pope, but in balancing the accounts of the co-operative store, so that any auditor who took over the books afterwards might find everything in order.
I says to him, 'William Henry, who do you want to kill? 'The Home Rulers an' the Papishes! says he. 'Quit, man, says I, 'an' talk sense. 'I am talkin' sense, says he. 'You're not, I says to him. 'D'you mean to stan' there an' tell me you want to kill Hugh Kearney? 'I do not indeed, says he.
These were the Orangemen. If there was one place more obnoxious to them than another it was the club room of the Hibernians in Crosbie Street. But though in their frequent conflicts with the "Papishes" they wrecked houses and even killed several Irishmen for they frequently used deadly weapons against unarmed Catholics they were never able to make a successful attack on McArdle's.
"I'm not saying it's not a good one," he said, "but it's terribly bitter against Ireland. The man that writes that magazine must have a bitter, blasting tongue in his head!" "Never mind what it says about Ireland," Uncle William retorted. "Sure, they're only against the Papishes, anyway!..." "The Papishes are as good as the Protestants," Uncle Matthew exclaimed.
"If we're not ready for them, my lord, they'll have our throats cut in our beds as soon as ever they get Home Rule." "They," of course were the "Papishes," Crossan's arch enemies. I wanted very much to hear more of his activities among the Orangemen. I wanted to know what steps he, as Grand Master, was taking to prevent cut-throats creeping in on us while we slept.
Again the Glengarry line was broken. At once the crowd surged about the Glengarry men, who now stood back to back, beating off the men leaping at them from every side, as a stag beats off dogs, and still chanting high their dauntless cry, "Glengarry forever," to which Big Mack added at intervals, "To hell with the Papishes!"
"'What's the reason, then, that the Protestant gentry of the country don't stand by their own? Why do they deal with Papishes? By Japers they don't daserve us to stand by them. "'I say, Fulton, it's a d d lie. I was at the wrecking of the Ballygrass Threshers, when you shabbed sickness and wouldn't go. "'And I am glad I didn't.
"I will prove the contrary in a moment," cries the clerk: "if my father dies seized of a right; do you mind me, seized of a right, I say; doth not that right descend to his son; and doth not one right descend as well as another?" "But how can he have any right to make us papishes?" says the landlord. "Never fear that," cries Partridge.
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