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"'You do not speak the language very correctly, said I; 'it is not Sas you should call me 'tis Sassanach, and forthwith I accompanied the word with a speech full of flowers of Irish rhetoric.
Then O'Connell quenched the candle, and he changed his cup for the cup of the man that was next him. And it was not long till the man fell dead. They were always trying to kill O'Connell, because he was a good man. The Sassanach it was were against him. Terrible wicked they were, and God save us, I believe they are every bit as wicked yet!"
In Parliament facing the Sassanach, in Ireland facing their police, he has for years the best years of his life displayed the same love of fighting for fighting's sake. In the riots he has provoked, and they are not a few, he is ever regardless of his own skin, and would be truly miserable if he inflicted any serious bodily harm on a human being even a landlord.
The smith went up to it, coaxed and patted it, making use of various sounds of equal endearment; then turning to me, and holding out once more the grimy hand, he said: "And now ye will be giving me the Sassanach tenpence, agrah?" From the wild scenes which I have attempted to describe in the latter pages I must now transport the reader to others of a widely different character.
You know what I told you afore about my family how we wor ever an' always doin' our best against the Sassanach Laws an ould family it is an' sure ould blood is betther than riches any day an' it isn't complexion aither, Miss Julia, that a this way, darlin' this way an' how long now is it since you fell in consate with me?
"It used to be Miss Nan; it was Miss Nan no further gone than Thursday, and for what need we be so formal to-day? You are not heeding John's havers about your name being mixed up with the affair in a poor Sassanach inn-keeper's story? Eh, Gilian?" And she eyed him shrewdly, more shrewdly than he was aware of. Still he put her off.
The doctor said it was a trance, but he was a sassanach and knew nothing about music; but it was the pipes prought the tead to. This is the air," and he played it with such vigour he nearly grew black in the face. "I believe it," sais I; "it has brought me to also, it has made me a new man, and brought me back to life again. Let us land the moose."
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