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Yer not in America now, and ye'll git no whisky, nor mate, barrin' four times a week." "We paid fur ut," they declaimed. "How kin a mon wurruk widout it?" "Ye can wark widout it and ye will. Ye'll pull ropes as I tell you, and as ye l'arn ye'll steer the boat in yer turn." "We'll shteer, will we?" "Yes, ye'll steer, straight for old Ireland and praties." "Hurrah!
You've made your family quite contented and peaceable, and they never fight for the praties now good reason why they shouldn't, seeing that there's a plenty for all of them, and the pig craturs into the bargain.
But then I thought of my mother, and of the cows, and the pig, and the furniture, all gone; and of my brothers and sisters wanting praties, and I made a vow that I'd send every farthing of it to them, after which Father M'Grath would no longer think of not giving me absolution.
Here praties grow bigger nor turnips; And though cruel hard is our work, In ould Ireland we'd nothing but praties, But here we have praties and pork. I live on the banks of a meadow, Now see that my maning you take; It bates all the bogs of ould Ireland Six months in the year it's a lake. Bad luck to the beavers that dammed it!
Sure the Lord will sind me an' the childhre a bit an' sup some way else glory to his name! beside a lock of praties in the corner o' the bag here, that'll do us for this day, any way." The bargain is immediately struck, and the poor tenant is glad to purchase, even from a beggar, his stone of meal, in consequence of getting it a few pence under market price.
"Now, boys," said Jemmy, after dropping a spittle into his pipe, pressing it down with his little finger, and putting it into his waistcoat pocket, "see an' get them praties down as soon as you can, an' don't work as if you intended to keep your Christmas there; an' Paddy the Bounce, I'll thank you to keep your jokes an' your stories to yourself, an' not to be idlin' the rest till afther your work's done.
"Well, before you leave us, be off now, and let the animal out o' the pound." "Is that it? Oh, God help you! what'll you do when you'll be left to yourself, as you will be on Saturday next? Let her out, says you. Troth, the poor woman had her cow safe and sound at home wid her before she went to bed last night, and her poor childre had her milk to kitchen their praties, the craythurs.
The top o' the morning to you, Noreen, and don't let her want the mouthful o' praties while I'm on my thravels. For this," added Shamus, as he bounded off, to the consternation of old Noreen "this is the very morning and the very minute that, if I mind the dhrame at all at all, I ought to mind it; ay, without ever turning back to get a look from her, that 'ud kill the heart in my body entirely."
So now that we understand, one another, let us go up to the glebe otherwise I'll drop. However, salvation to me!" he exclaimed with a smile, "if we'll bear their burthens much longer! I have a butt of meal here, I saw his son to-day, too, without a stitch to his foot, poor boy." "And so did I," replied M'Mahon; "he sent one o' them over to me for the loan of a lock o' praties."
The weapon, she informed me, was a most efficient one, having once been known when missing the advocate of "young Ireland" it was aimed at to demolish a whole litter of those little gentlemen with curly tails who assist, in conjunction with the "praties," in "paying the rint" of the trusting natives of the Emerald Isle; consequently, its destructive powers were beyond question, and it might really, she thought, be of the utmost utility to me on the western prairies, where, she believed, I was going to "camp out" for ever!
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