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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Praties, boy, or pit-taties, if I must be partic'lar." "Ah! goot, goot, I understan' pettitoes. Oui, oui, ye call him pomme de terre."
Murphy, who averred that she "niver seed such min." "Fur they have no table manners, John," she said. "What's the use givin' thim knives and forks, whin they don't know how to use thim? Foor o' thim cut their mouths." "Niver mind, Norah," said Murphy, kindly. "Give thim spoons; for a spoon is like a shovel, ye know, and they're accustomed to shovels. And give 'em bafe stew and mashed praties."
I saw the gorse bloomin' in the t'atch d' ye know. Oh wisha wisha the poor ould home an' the green praties that day we come from it with our luck smilin' us in the face." "Whist darlin': kape aisy darlin'!" mourned Biddy, with a great sob.
"But how do you know it's true yourself?" Angelica demanded. "Did you ever see the devil, With his little spade and shovel, Digging praties in the garden With his tail cocked up?" Diavolo chanted, accompanying the words with a little dance, in which Angelica, holding up her habit, joined incontinently.
In the first place, the walls were mud all through, and as rough on the inside as the out. There was actually no furniture in it of any description; and the only implement I saw, was a large globular iron pot, that stood upon spikes, like a carpenter's pitch-kettle, which pot, at the moment of my entrance, was full of hot, recently boiled, unskinned, fine mealy praties.
"Well, then, God forgive me!" replied the other, concealing his benevolence by a grin, which he could not prevent at his own ingenuity, but which he endeavored to conceal as well as he could; "God forgive me! but hearin' that Goodison the parson here, and his family were in great distress, I thought I might as well have my revenge aginst him, by fetchin' him a load o' praties, which is all I can spare the poor ould hem the heretical ould creature and so, says I to myself, it's a good opportunity of heapin' the coals upon him that you spoke about, sir.
The flure was worn into large holes, that were mostly filled up with slop, where the childher used to daddle about, and amuse themselves by sailing egg-shells upon them, with bits of boiled praties in them, by way of a little faste.
"Why we can't hut, what was I goin' to say?" replied his companion; "we can't complain ershi mishi! why, then, God help us, it's we that can complain, Donnel, if there was any use in it; but, mavrone, there isn't; so all I can say is, that we're jist mixed middlin', like the praties in a harvest, or hardly that same, indeed, since this woful change that has come on us."
Removing his cap, he closed one eye and carefully peered along the extended arm of the Shawanoe as though it was a rifle which he was about to aim and fire. "What is it?" asked Fred, a moment later, with some impatience over the plodding deliberation of his companion. "I obsarve a big lot of traas, some rocks, some water and a claarin' where ye could raise a big lot of praties, and and and "
"It would make a dinner, yer honour, for every mother's son of 'em, counting the gur-r-rls, in the bargain! Such a power of bir-r-ds, would knock down 'praties, in a wonderful degree, and make even butthermilk chape and plenthiful. Will it be always such abundance with us, down at the Huts, yer honour? or is this sight only a delusion to fill us with hopes that's never to be satisfied?"
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