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Updated: June 15, 2025
"I should feel more dacent fur all etarnity jist to be buried in the same cimet'ry wid Judge Bar'net," O'mie once declared. "I should walk into kingdom-come, dignified and head up, saying to the kaper av the pearly gates, kind o' careless-like, 'I'm from that little Kansas town av Springvale an' ye'll check up my mortial remains over in the cimet'ry, be my neighbor, Judge Bar'net, if ye plaze."
Throth, they had fine times of it puddins an' pies, if you plaze: the bare lavins would feed a family at home. An' it's the same, they tell me, in all the farmers' houses round about. I never thought to see so much vittles. No reply could be elicited from Mr. Arthur Wynn but a grunt. 'Didn't you? put in the driver, with a small sneer.
"The masther says there isn't any, if you plaze, sir." "No slippers! and you call this an inn? Oh! well, 'what can't be cured must be endured' hold me the bootjack, sir." The gossoon obeyed the little man inserted his heel in the cleft, but, on attempting to pull his foot from the boot, he nearly went heels over head backward. Murphy caught him and put him on his legs again.
"Ah, but it's a cliver trick, no doubt of it!" "What a capital dodge!" said Fred, crouching behind the hummock, and watching the movements of the Esquimaux with deep interest. "West, hand me the little telescope; you'll find it in the pack." "Here it is, sir," said the man, pulling out a glass of about six inches long, and handing it to Fred. "How many is there, an' ye plaze?"
"I'm so glad you brought your violin," Aileen was saying to Harold, who was in another corner. "I've been looking forward to your coming to play for us." "Very nize ov you, I'm sure," Sohlberg replied, with his sweety drawl. "Such a nize plaze you have here all these loafly books, and jade, and glass." He had an unctuous, yielding way which was charming, Aileen thought.
When I was for a man-servant with Cæsar the farming boys were ateing potatoes and herrings three times a day. But now! butcher's mate every dinner-time, if you plaze. And tay! the girls must be having it reg'lar and taking no shame with them neither. My sake, I remember when the mother would be whispering, 'Keep an eye on the road, boy, while I'm brewing myself a cup of tay. Truth enough, Nancy.
'Talkin' of money, says the waiver; 'by the same token, I'll want a thrifle o' change from you for my thravellin' charges. 'As much as you plaze, says the king; and with the word, he brought him into his closet, where there was an owld stockin' in an oak chest, burstin' wid goolden guineas.
"Whatever the weather may be," says he "Whatever the weather may be It's plaze, if ye will, an' I'll say me say, Supposin' to-day was the winterest day, Wud the weather be changing because ye cried, Or the snow be grass were ye crucified? The best is to make your own summer," says he, "Whatever the weather may be," says he "Whatever the weather may be!
Mrs Massey was at supper with her son, when there came a knock at the door, and a bare-headed damsel appeared. "Mrs Massey, my mother's taken mighty bad entirely, and will it plaze ye to come and see what ye can do for her?" she exclaimed, in a petitioning tone. Mrs Massey, who was proud of the medical knowledge she exercised for the benefit of her neighbours, immediately arose.
It was a discovery to excuse bad language, but his protest was lamb-like. "No more av that, if ye plaze, Misther Halkett, or me an' Jimmy Shovel'll have to Ah! would yez, now?" Before his promotion to the superintendency Halkett had been a ward boss in the metropolis of the State. Thinking he saw his chance, he took it, and the blow knocked Callahan silly for the moment.
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