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Another reminded him of "how often he proved Phaidrick Murray to be an ass, and showed him how he couldn't make out the differ atween black an' white." "Sure, an' he did," said Phadrick, scratching his head, for he was one of the first at the house; "an' no wondher, wid his long-headed screwtations from the books.
Denis is the boy that 'ud have the dacent thing or nothin'." The grazier and Phadrick Murray then bent their steps to Owen Connor's house, where the wedding was held. It is unnecessary to say that Phadrick plied his new acquaintance to some purpose.
"In the first place, fadher, you're ungrammatical in one word; instead of sayin' 'prove, always say probate, or probe; the word is descended, that is, the ancisthor of it, is probo, a deep Greek word probo, probas, prob-ass, that is to say, I'm to probe Phadrick here to be an ass. Now, do you see how pat I brought that in? That's the way, Phadrick, I chastise my fadher with the languages."
"Take these, Misther Denis," said the worthy souls; "they're of no use to us at all at all; but they'll sarve you, of coorse, where you're goin', bekase when you want books in the college you can use them." Honest Phadrick Murray, in lieu of a more valuable present, brought him his wife's largest and best shawl as a pocket handkerchief.
The sorra one but you'd puzzle a saint wid your long-headed screwtations from books." "So, Phadrick, your preamble is, that white is white, an' black is black?" "Asy avick. I said, sure enough, that white is white; but the black I deny I said it was the color of Father Curtis's black coat." "Oh, you barbarian of the world, how I scorn your profundity an' emotions!
When old Denis got the young sogarth fairly in motion, he gently drew himself out of the dispute, but continued a running comment upon the son's erudition, pointed out his good things, and occasionally resumed the posture of the controversialist to reinspirit the boy if he appeared to flag. "Dinny, abouchal, will you come up till Phadrick Murray hears you arguin' Scripthur wid myself, Dinny.
Denis's uncle now interposed: "The horses," said he, "are at the door, an' time's passin'." "Och, thrue for you, Barny," said old Denis; "come, acushla, an' let me help you on your horse. We will go on quickly, as we're to meet Father Finnerty at the crass-roads." Denis then shook hands with them all, not forgetting honest Phadrick Murray, who exclaimed, as he bid him farewell, "Arrah!
"All rasonable, Dinny, Why, thin, black is let me see hut, death alive! it's a a why, it's black, an' that's all I can say about it; yes, faix, I can black is the color of Father Curtis's coat." "An' what color is that, Phadrick?" "Why, it's black, to be sure." "Well, now, what color is white, Phadrick?" "Why, it's a snow-color: for all the world the color of snow." "White is?" "Ay, is it."
Phadrick, ahagur, he'll make the darlin' of an arguer whin he gets the robes an him." "I don't deny that; he'll be aquil to the best o' thim: still, Denis, I'd rather, whin I want to pronounce upon colors, that he'd let me keep my eyes open." "Ay, but he did it out o' the books, man alive; an' there's no goin' beyant thim. Sure he could prove it out of the Divinity, if you went to that.
John the Divine; attended with copious Disquisitions on the relative Merits of moral and physical Philosophy, as contrasted with the pusillanimous Lectures of that Ignoramus of the first Water, Phadrick M'Swagger, falsely calling himself Philomath cum multis aliis quos enumerare longum est: "Humbly Sheweth
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