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"'By the powdhers o' war, I'm all right, says I, 'there's a house there, and sure enough there was, and a parcel of men, women, and childher, ating their dinner round a table, quite convanient. And so I wint up to the door, and I thought I'd be very civil to them, as I heerd the French was always mighty p'lite intirely, and I thought I'd show them I knew what good manners was.
One of the latter, for instance, named Bat Hanratty, exclaimed, after they had bade her good, night, and expressed their unaffected sorrow for the severe loss she was about to sustain: "Well, well, you may all talk; but be the powdhers o' delf, nothin' barrin' the downright grace o' God could sup sup port that dacent mother of ould Fardorougha I mane of his son, poor Connor.
'By the powdhers o' war, here comes the knight arriant, says the king, 'ridin' the dhraggin that's all afire, and if he gets into the palace, yiz must be ready wid the fire ingines, says he, 'for to put him out. But when they seen the dhraggin fall outside, they all run downstairs and scampered into the palace-yard for to circumspect the curosity; and by the time they got down, the waiver had got off o' the dhraggin's neck, and runnin' up to the king, says he, 'Plaze your holiness, says he, 'I did not think myself worthy of killin' this facetious baste, so I brought him to yourself for to do him the honour of decripitation by your own royal five fingers.
An' especially wud I advise ivrybody to sthrike whin th' weather is hot." "What ails ye?" asked Mr. Dooley of Mr. Hennessy, who looked dejected. "I'm a sick man," said Mr. Hennessy. "Since th' picnic?" "Now that I come to think iv it, it did begin th' day afther th' picnic," said Mr. Hennessy. "I've been to see Dock O'Leary. He give me this an' these here pills an' some powdhers besides.
O'Reirdon, by the powdhers o' war it's enough, so it is, to make a dog bate his father, to hear you goin' an as if you war Curlumberus or Sir Crustyphiz Wran, when ivery one knows the divil a farther you iver war nor ketchin crabs or drudgen oysters."
"'Why, except I get the likes of her for a wife upon second thoughts, I don't like marriage, any way, said Billy, winking against the priest 'I lade such a life as your Reverence; and by the powdhers, it's a thousand pities that I wasn't made into a priest, instead of a tailor. For, you see, if I had' says he, giving a verse of an old song
"'Let him alone, Barney, he's got enough. "'By the powdhers, it's myself that won't: didn't he kill Paddy? "'Oh! Man for man, boys an O'Hallaghan's done for whoo! for our side tol-deroll, folderoll, tow, row, row huzza! fol-deroll, fol-deroll, tow, row, row, huzza for the O'Callaghans!
The comical miscreant no sooner made his appearance than, like Liston, when coming on the stage, he was greeted with a general roar of laughter. "So," said he, "you have a conjurer above. But wait a while; by the powdhers o' delf Rantin' Rody's the boy will try his mettle. If he can look farther than his nose, I'm the lad will find it out.
"'By the powdhers o' war, I'm all right, says I; 'there's a house there. And, sure enough, there was, and a parcel of men, women, and childher, ating their dinner round a table, quite convanient. And so I wint up to the door, and I thought I'd be very civil to them, as I heerd the Frinch was always mighty p'lite intirely, and I thought I'd show them I knew what good manners was.
Throth I'm sorry for the girl, and did all I could, to persuade her against the step she tuck; but it was no use she was more like one that tuck love powdhers from him, than a raisonable bein'."
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