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Wait a bit," she says, "an' I'll fetch ye a sup o' the wather I'm afther bilin' the pitaties in, maybe that'll do ye good," she says. 'Well, says the Gout, 'if the fellow didn't go an' put his fut, an' me in it, into an owld rusty bucket full of pitaty-wather! I thought he'd have destroyed me altogether. An' such a night as I passed, wid scarcely a blanket at all on the bed!
"Come on, then," cried Kalman, as Mackenzie reached for the bottle. "Come and show me how." "There iss no hurry," said the deliberate Mackenzie, drinking his glass with slow relish. "But first the pitaties are to be got over from Garneau's." Again and again, and with increasing rage, Kalman sought to drag Mackenzie away from his bottle and to his work.
It iss a good thing he has a man to look after the place," said Mackenzie with the pride of conscious fidelity. "We will just be going on with the oats and the pitaties. You will be taking the harrows." "The what?" said Kalman. "The harrows." Kalman looked blank. "Can you not harrow?" "I don't know," said Kalman. "What is that?" "Can you drop pitaties, then?"
Kilfoyle, who stood in the rain, the disconsolate centre of the group about her door; all women and children except old Johnny Keogh, who was so bothered and deaf, that he grasped new situations slowly and feebly, and had now an impression of somebody's house being on fire. "He must ha' took off wid himself the instiant me back was turned, for ne'er a crumb had he touched of the pitaties."
"What do you make that out to be?" enquired French. "Who in the mischief are they? Go and see." It was not long before Mackenzie stood before his master with Kalman by his side. "As sure as death," said Mackenzie, "he has a tribe of Galician women yonder, and the pitaties iss all in." "What do you say?" stammered French. "It iss what I am telling you.
The majority of the people in the islands of Clew Bay have given up the idea of paying rent as a bad job altogether, and these advanced spirits have many imitators on the mainland. To the request, "Give me my rent, or give me my land," is made one eternal answer, "And how can I pay the rent when the corn is washed away and the pitaties rot in the ground?
Ould Pat Murphy, who has subsisted all his life upon an insufficiency of pitaties, and inhabited a largish sty, never loses the sense that he owes something better to himself in his character of a human being, and he takes painful steps to ensure the ultimate discharge of the debt.
"Well, Callum, man," began Mackenzie in pleasant salutation. "My name is Kalman," snapped the boy. "Never mind, it iss a good name, whatefer. But I am saying we will be getting into the pitaties after breakfast. Can ye drop pitaties?" "Show me how," said Kalman shortly. "And that I will," said Mackenzie affably, helping himself to the bottle.
But when Dan took her place at the counter Isaac assured him, not without satisfaction, that "they were cliver and clane run out of all their writin' paper, barrin' it might be a sort of butt-ind of loose sheets left litterin' at the bottom of the drawer, and they that thick wid dust you could be plantin' pitaties in them, forby gettin' mildewed lyin' up in the damp so long."
It might be somethin' the same as if he went and took his grand vistments to go dig pitaties in; and that 'ud be a great sin, God knows." But old Felix, who was, as we have seen, a rather touchy person, construed this suggestion into an implied censure on his own wishes in the matter, and he said, huffily "Sorra the talk of sin I see in it at all, ma'am.
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