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"I was a spalpeen no bigger than the height of me knee, and I'd go to the sty door, and he'd come to the door, and grunt an' blow wid his nose undher it; an' I'd grunt back to vex him, an' hammer wid me fist on it, an' shout `Halloo there! halloo there! and `Halloo to you! he'd say, spakin' the pigs' language. `Let me out, he'd say, `and I'll give yiz a silver shilling.
Och, musha, I forget who I'm spakin' to, or I wouldn't disremimber the ould sayin' that's abroad this many a year: 'who ever knew a M'Carthy of Tubber Derg to tell a lie, break his word, or refuse to help a friend in distress. But, Owen, you're well to do in' the world?" "We're as well, Bridget, or may be betther, nor you ever knew us, except, indeed, afore the ould lase was run out wid us."
The sorra word of prayer God bless the prayers! came out o' your lips today,'an til you laid in a good warm breakfast, and afther that, for fraid of disappointments, the very first thing you prayed for was your daily bread didn't I hear you? But I'll tell you what, sir, ordher me my breakfast, and then I'll be spakin' to you.
"Now," said Poll to the females who accompanied her "go home every one of yez; but, for goodness sake don't be spakin' of what you seen this night. The poor girl's correcther's gone, sure enough; but for all that, let us have nothing to say to her or Mr. Phil. It'll all come out time enough, and more than time enough, without our help; so, as I said, hould a hard cheek about it.
"Phelim, if a body thought you worn't jokin' them ah, the dickens go wid you, Phelim this is more o' your thricks but if it was thruth you wor spakin', Phelim?" "It is thruth," said Phelim; "be the vestment, it's nothin' else. Now, say yes or no; for if it's a thing that it's to be a match, you must go an' tell him that I'll marry you, an' he must be as firm as a rock.
"Not exactly married; but listen hither, Jerry you don't know the man you're spakin' to it's a gift that God gave me but, you don't know the man you're spakin' to; however as for poor Letty, I'll provide for her some way the poor affectionate crature; an' she's good-lookin' too; however, as I said, I'll do something for her some way," and here he nodded and winked with most villainous significance.
Now I was tould a thing wanst by a sartain parson I won't say who, but I believe it's not a thousand miles from the truth I'm spakin' about who he is." "And who is he?" asked Fergus; "out with it Cannie." "Well, then," he proceeded, in a cautious and confidential whisper, "it's said by them that ought to know, that he's an illaygal brother to the Great Counsellor. There now, you have it."
We are of opinion, that if Nancy's cap had been off at the moment, her two ears might have been observed to erect themselves on each side of her head with pure and unadulterated curiosity. "Well, Miss Alley, what is it, ahagur?" "Now, you won't breathe this to any human creature?" "Is it me? Arrah! little you know the woman you're spakin' to.
"In regard to me," she observed, "you may save yourself the throuble o' comin'. I wouldn't marry Phelim, afther what the priest said yistherday, if he had the riches o' the townland we're spakin' in. I never cared for him, nor liked him; an' it was only to plase my father an' mother, that I consinted to be called to him at all. I'll never join myself to the likes of him.
If ever your lyin' sowl saw truth in uts life ye know that. "An' Love-o'-Women lifted up his head and said, 'I knew, an' that was all. While she was spakin' the Power hild him up parade-set in the 'sun, an the sweat dhropped undher his helmet. 'Twas more an' more throuble for him to talk, an' his mouth was runnin' twistways. "Fwhat do you do here? she sez, an' her voice whit up.
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