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"Yis, sor, she's the sisther, sure, ov me fri'nd Tom Bowlin' here, sor," he said, pointing me out by a punch in the ribs that nearly knocked all the breath out of me. "An', sure, she's moighty fond ov burrds!" Mr Blockley laughed. "From that, I suppose, Paddy," he said, as soon as he could speak, "you put Jocko here in the same boat as the birds?"
And if it worn't that you hadn't bad cess to the luck of it! your own bit of a stick in your hand, wouldn't you have knocked the life out of him for the name he put on your sisther, Miss Feemy? the blackguard!" "And did you hear him, Pat?" "Shure I did, yer honer." "And did you see him?" "See him, yes, shure; I seed him riz his big stick, and I thought it was nigh kilt you were."
M'Evoy." "Bedad, Sisther, ye know yerself it was into the canal I fell wid a can o' milk," said the old woman addressed, squinting fearfully in her efforts to catch a glimpse of the new patient. "The Bishop says the last time he come round, 'I s'pose, he says, 'ye were goin' to put wather in the milk. 'No, says I, 'there was wather enough in it before." Here Mrs.
As far as I can understand, your father left about eight hundred a-year between the two that's you and your sisther; and then there's the house and furniture. Nothing on earth can keep her out of her property, or prevent her from marrying whom she plases. Martin Kelly, who is an honest fellow, though sharp enough, has set his eye on her, and before many weeks you'll find he'll make her his wife.
"She give me char-rge av th' owld eshtate, wid th' big house, an th' lawn as wide an' as grane as th' angel pastures av hiven an' little Eily his sisther th' purtiest gur-rl owld Oirland iver bred, who was niver tired av listhenin' to tales av her big brother.
So says I, 'afther that! Well, Sisther, the will o' God be done! He knows best, Sisther alanna, doesn't He? But," with a weak sob, "my poor little boy's heart 'ill be broke out an' out when he finds I'm afther dyin' in the workhouse!" "We must pray for him," said the Sister softly; "you must pray for him and offer up the sacrifice that God asks of you, for him. Try not to fret so much.
The name he mentioned at once made Mick cock his ear. "Grand Canary," repeated my chum after the signalman, with a puzzled look on his face. "Ain't thet the place, Tom, whare thim yaller burds yer sisther Jenny has, sure, at home comes from? She s'id they wor canaries, Oi'd take me davy!" "Of course, they are, Mick," said I, in reply to this.
Pathrick still wid the cross look on him p'intin' to the shamrock in his hand, as much as to say 'There is but the wan God in three divine Persons an' Him ye must obey. So then I took to baitin' me breast an' sayin' 'The will o' God be done! an' if ye'll believe me, Sisther, the next time I took heart to look at St. Pathrick there he was smilin' for all the world the moral o' poor Barney.
The misthress isn't the woman to spare, and sich a frind as Miss Anty dead in the house. Let 'em ax whom they like." "You're a fool, Nelly Ax whom they like! that's asy said. Is they to ax Barry Lynch, or is they to let it alone, and put the sisther into the sod without a word said to him about it?
"Well, but the thruth is, Mogue," replied his companion, "that I got a message from my mother, sayin' that she's not well, and wishes most partiklarly to see me about my sisther Shibby's marriage.
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