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Updated: June 9, 2025
I have been out into the barn, and an owl has crow'd at me!" 'And what has this to do with playing cards? 'Little enough, Shorsha dear! If there were card-playing, I should not be frighted. 'And why do you not play at cards? 'Did I not tell you that the thief, my uncle Phelim, stole away the pack?
"Then why did ye say ye were sent there? Well, what kind of place is Paris? Not that I care much about Paris." "Sorrow a bit did I ever see of either them, Shorsha, for no one sent me to either. When we says at home a person is going to Paris and Salamanca, it manes that he is going abroad to study to be a saggart, whether he goes to them places or not.
I inquired "How much would take him to Ireland, and establish him there with credit." "Five pounds," he answered, adding, "but who in the world would be fool enough to lend me five pounds, unless it be yourself, Shorsha, who, may be, have not got it; for when you told me about yourself, you made no boast of the state of your affairs."
Och, Shorsha! let me tell you how Finn, by means of sucking his thumb, and the witchcraft he imbibed from it, contrived to pull off the arm of the ould wagabone, Darmod David Odeen, whilst shaking hands with him for Finn could do no feat of strength without sucking his thumb, Shorsha, as Conan the Bald told the son of Oisin in the song which I used to sing ye in Dungarvon times of old;" and here Murtagh repeated certain Irish words to the following effect:
"You don't say so, Shorsha mavourneen! you don't say that you have cards fifty-two?" "I do, though; and they are quite new never been once used." "And you'll be lending them to me, I warrant?" "Don't think it! But I'll sell them to you, joy, if you like." "Hanam mon Dioul! am I not after telling you that I have no money at all?"
I am a son of the church, and if the Pope don't interfere with my cards, divil a bit will I have to say against him; but I saw the Pope playing, or about to play, with the pack which had been taken from me, and when I told the Pope, the Pope did not Ye had better let me go on with my history, Shorsha; whether you or the world believe it or not, I am sure it is quite as true as your tale of the snake, or saying that Finn got his burnt finger from the thaives of Loughlin; and whatever you may say, I am sure the world will think so too."
"Faith, you may say that, Shorsha dear! it is seldom much to do that I have." "And what are you doing with your hands?" "Faith, then, if I must tell you, I was e'en dealing with the cards." "Do you play much at cards?" "Sorra a game, Shorsha, have I played with the cards since my uncle Phelim, the thief, stole away the ould pack, when he went to settle in the county Waterford!"
"Then the world, Murtagh to say nothing of the Irish part of it will be a fool, even as I have often thought it; the grand thing, Murtagh, is to be able to believe oneself, and respect oneself. How few whom the world believes believe and respect themselves." "Och, Shorsha! shall I go on with the tale of Finn?" "I'd rather you should not, Murtagh; I know all about it already."
‘Faith it is, honey!—And now the Christmas holidays is coming, when I shall be at home by day as well as night, and then what am I to do? Since I have been a saggarting, I have been good for nothing at all—neither for work nor Greek—only to play cards! Faith, it’s going mad I will be!’ ‘I say, Murtagh!’ ‘Yes, Shorsha dear!’ ‘I have a pack of cards.’
‘You don’t say so, Shorsha ma vourneen?—you don’t say that you have cards fifty-two?’ ‘I do, though; and they are quite new—never been once used.’ ‘And you’ll be lending them to me, I warrant?’ ‘Don’t think it!—But I’ll sell them to you, joy, if you like.’ ‘Hanam mon Dioul! am I not after telling you that I have no money at all!’
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