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"Syl," he replied, "behave yourself; what are you at now? I know you." "Know me!" exclaimed Syl; "why what do you know of me? Nothing that's bad I hope, any way." "None of your palaver, at all events," replied Art; "have you got any tobaccy about you?" "Sorra taste," replied Harte, "nor had since mornin'."
''Tis asier said than done, remarked Andy, looking for a niche between the logs to put his foot in. 'I hope this isn't the way we'll always have to be clamberin' into our house; but sorra other way do I see, barrin' the hole's to be a passage ondherground. 'You goose! the hole is to be a cellar, wherein to keep potatoes and pork, said his master, overhearing the tale of his soliloquy.
And since he's in no condition to go to his shtate-room an' unlock the ship's safe, an' sorra wan av me knows the combination, the divil a look will ye have at our papers.
The wather mightn't be altogither too deep there yit; at all evints, she's between the divil and the deep say where she is now; it's just a chanst." "Sorra a much," said Joe, disconsolately; "scarce worth breakin' your bones after, any way." "Bones, how are you? Sure, there's no call to be breakin' bones in the matter," said Mick, beginning to descend.
"Well," said "His Majesty, "there's no knowin'; an' it's best to be on yer gyard, so it is, for sorra a one av us knows whin a ghost may be prowlin' round about, an' there ye have it. As for the other ghosts, Ashby an' Rivers, they won't do yez any more harruum they're undher gyard." "Under guard!" said Katie, and threw an imploring look at "His Majesty."
Immediately, like a dog, the woman crept in and sat far away from the fire in a corner of the room. "Ye'll pardon me," said Mrs. Fitzpatrick to Kalmar, "fer not axin' ye in at the first; but indade, an' it's more your blame than mine, fer sorra a bit o' thim takes afther ye." "They do not resemble me, you mean?" said the father. "No, they are the likeness of their mother."
"Does she dhrink?" "No, sorra drop this wickedness all comes natural to her; she wouldn't be aisy out of hot wather, and poor Jack's parboiled in it every day in the year."
'I don't see a turnpike an' sure I ought to know a tollman's dirty face in any place. Sorra house here at all at all, or a gate; or a ha'porth except trees, he added in a disgusted manner. 'There, said the Canadian, pointing to a ploughed line along each side of the road, whence the earth had been thrown up in the centre by a scraper; 'that's turnpiking.
Mrs. Kilfoyle, however, still stood in deep dejection at her door, and said, "Och, but she was the great fool to go let the likes of him set fut widin her house." To console her Mrs. O'Driscoll said, "Ah, sure, sorra a fool were you, woman dear; how would you know the villiny of him? And if you'd turned the man away widout givin' him e'er a bit, it's bad you'd be thinkin' of it all the day after."
Patman, who had said loudly in their hearing, "Well, for sartin if I'd had a notion of the blamed little dog-hole he was bringin' us into, sorra the sole of a fut 'ud I ha' set inside it;" and had then proceeded to congratulate herself upon having prudently left "all her dacint bits of furniture up above at her mother's, so that she needn't be bothered wid cartin' them away out of a place that didn't look to have had ever e'er a thing in it worth the throuble of movin', not if it stood there until it dropped to pieces wid dirt."
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