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Having entered the little room in question, he suddenly popped out his head and asked: "Could you weigh a stone or a half stone of praties, if they were called for? But, never mind you'd be apt to give down weight I'll come out and do it myself, if they're wanted;" saying which, he drew the red curtain aside, in order the better, as it would seem, to keep a watchful eye upon the other.
Mike is now washing a prodigious quantity of potatoes in a large iron pot, "a grate crop of praties this year, but the salt water plays the divil with the keeping av them, like that," and he holds up one with a red mark on it in his gigantic paw. I kept wondering if they were really going to eat all these potatoes at one meal.
Mulready's that he expected little from yer honor, but just leave to go where he liked, and lave the cow and the praties behind him." "What wor they saying at Mulready's, Pat?"
Shure, it's pleasant to hear the frogs croakin', When the sun's going down in the sky, And my Judy sits quietly smokin' While the praties are boil'd till they're dhry. Och! thin, if you love indepindence, And have money your passage to pay, You must quit the ould counthry intirely, And start in the middle of May. Stern Disappointment, in thy iron grasp The soul lies stricken.
Luckily we don't often die hereabouts, or we'd never get the praties set or the turf cut. Sometimes they won't go to work because someone is expected to die, and they say it isn't worth while to begin. I have known a lingering case to throw the crops back a fortnight or more. Oh, they don't grumble; any excuse for laziness is warmly welcomed.
We lived on praties next day, but the poor Sergeant had to foot the bill. "Well, as I was going on to say, while I was helping guard a pratie patch, an ice-house, corn-crib, smoke-house, and other such things that were near our camp ground, and that belonged to a Rebel Colonel under Johnston; Johnston himself was staling away with all his army to help fight the battle of Bull Run.
"Now, fancy that!" he exclaimed; "for the Dublin aristocracy who think the praties only fit for the peasants!" Of a well-known and popular personage in politics, he told me that he once went with him on a canvassing tour. It was in a county the candidate had never before visited.
"I'm the rantin' Cannie Soogah." "Ha! the Jolly Pedlar! Throw open the window, Fergus, till we have a chat with him. Well, my rantin' Cannie Soogah, how are you?" "Faith, your honor, I'm jist betwixt and between, as they say naither betther nor worse, but mixed middlin', like the praties in harvest. However, it's good to be any way at all in these times; so thank God my head's on my body still."
"'If you bethray me, Tom Connor, says the cat in a low voice, 'by this and that I'll never spake to you again! "'Pon my honour, sir, said Tom, with a wink and a twitch of his thumb towards the bag, 'I haven't anything in it. "'I have been missing my praties of late, says the Squire; 'and I'd just like to examine that bag, says he.
Shure, they used to call me `little bellows' at home, and set me to make the turf blaze up when the praties were put on to boil." Saying this, Dan threw himself on the ground, and began blowing away with a vehemence which soon made the sparks fly, speedily followed by a flickering flame. The sticks caught and crackled, and the smoke rose in dense volumes.
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