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"I don't want to be helpin'. I want to be doin' mesilf," objected Jim. "And what will you be doin'?" asked the widow. "You're full short for spreadin' bedclothes, for though nine years makes a b'y plinty big enough for some things, it laves him a bit small for others. You can't be cookin' yet, nor sweepin', nor even loightin' fires. But you shall be doin', since doin's what you want.
Stones is plinty, and chape enough." "They're things you haven't the sellin' of then, I'll go bail," said old Felix. He spoke in resentment of the interruption, but Mr. Dooley took the speech as a flattering tribute to his business capacity, and acknowledged it with a good-humoured smirk.
"Along wid all, childhre," said he, "the Colonel ordhered me my dinner. I ate plinty myself, an' slipped these slices in my pocket for you: but the devil a one o' me knows what kind o' mate it is. An' I got wine, too! Oh! Well, they may talk, but wine is the drink! Bring me the ould knife, till I make a fair divide of it among ye.
How t' feed an' water dead cats av th' long-haired kind I may not know, an' how t' live with dead cats I may not know, but whin t' bury dead cats I do know, an' there be plinty av other jobs where a man is not ordered t' dig up forty-siven acres t' find a cat that was buried none too soon at that!" "What's that?" said the inspector. "Is that cat dead?"
"And since then you've had no bad luck?" said Booth, with a smile. "Plinty of it, begob, but I've had some one besides meself to blame for it. There's a lot in that, Mr. Brandon. Whin a man marries, he simply divides his luck into two parts, good and bad, and if he's like most men he puts the bulk av the bad luck on his wife and kapes to himself all he can av the good for a rainy day.
Such was Mat's soliloquy as he entered the school on his return. "Now, boys, I'm afther givin' yez to-day and to-morrow for a holyday: to-morrow we will have our Gregory;* a fine faste, plinty of poteen, and a fiddle; and you will tell your brothers and sisters to come in the evening to the dance.
"Ah, Misther Burke," replied Peety, in a tone of gratitude peculiar to his class, "you're the ould* man still ever an' always the large heart an' lavish hand an' so sign's on it full an' plinty upon an' about you an' may it ever be so wid you an' yours, a chierna, I pray. An how is the misthress, sir?" * That is to say, the same man still.
'Deed and she got a quare turn when first she spied the chap croochin' under the bank she couldn't tell but he might ha' been a corp." Brian Kilfoyle's view was: "Divil a much! Sure if he'd had e'er a notion to be doin' anythin' agin himself, there was plinty of deep bog-houles handy for him to sling himself into, and have done wid it." Whereupon Mrs.
Meeker read Sutler's letter, which Norcross had handed him, and, after deliberation, remarked: "All right, we'll do the best we can for you, Mr. Norcross; but we haven't any fancy accommodations." "He don't expect any," replied Berrie. "What he needs is a little roughing it." "There's plinty of that to be had," said one of the herders, who sat below the salt. "'is the soft life I'm nadin'."
Oh, I have plinty, and will swear, plase your honour, that he put me in bodily fear, and tore my jock, my blue jock, to tatters. Mr. Carv. My good lady, more or less will never do. Catty. Forty shillings, any way, I'll swear to; and that's a felony, your honour, I hope? Mr. Carv. Take time, and consult your conscience conscientiously, my good lady, while I swear these other men
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