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Updated: June 8, 2025
What do you pass that well-dressed woman for? thry back ha! see that she had her money ready if you only asked for it don't go by that other woman there oh, oh! So you won't give anything, ma'am. You ought to be ashamed of yourself. There is a woman with an elegant sthraw bonnet, and she won't give a farthing.
Well now afther that remember I give it from the althar, that from this day out sthraw bonnets pay fi'penny pieces. L s. d. Thomas Durfy, Esq. 1 0 0 "It's not his parish and he's a brave gentleman. L s. d. Miss Fanny Dawson 1 0 0 "A Protestant out of the parish, and a sweet young lady, God bless her! Oh, 'faith, the Protestants is shaming you!!! L s. d.
Then Phil looked up into Captain Corbet's face without saying a word. "Wal?" "What is it, do you think?" asked Phil, in a low voice. "What do YOU think?" "Sure an it's a hat a sthraw hat," said Pat. Captain Corbet exchanged a meaning glance with Phil. "Do you think it's HIS hat?" asked Phil. "Whose else can it be?" Phil was silent, and his gaze was once more directed to the floating object.
I'm ashamed of you troth, if I had time and sthraw enough, I'd rather thatch the place myself than lose my time talking to you; sure the place is more like a stable than a chapel. Oh, think of that! the house of God to be like a stable! for though our Redeemer, in his humility, was born in a stable, that is no reason why you are to keep his house always like one.
And if ye'll wait a bit it's mesilf that'll run and fetch some of the nate, saft sthraw, that ye can fill the tins, and 'twill do ye betther; indade, and it's none but a hathen that could endure the likes of that!" "Ah! Pathrick, is it ye? and was ye pint up in there wid the crathurs?"
"She'd flog the counthry side, sir; an' if the misthress herself, sir, 'ud shake the wishp o' sthraw fwor her in the kitchen, sir, near the whoire. Yer haner could spake to her about it; an' in no time put a knife into her whin you plazed. In regard o' the other thing, sir she's like a Christyeen, yer haner, an' no throuble, sir, if you'd be seein' company or any thing."
I mind wanst, he says, 'we had days just like these, an' we raised forty bushels iv oats to an acre, he says. 'Whin Neville, th' landlord, come with wagons to take it off, he was that surprised ye cud iv knocked him down with a sthraw. 'Tis great growin' weather, he says.
"I've often thought I'd like to have th' walkin' dillygate iv th' Liquor Dealers' Binivolent Assocyation come around an' ordher me to lay down me lemon squeezer an' bung starter an' walk out. But nawthin' iv th' kind iver happens an' if it did happen no wan wud care a sthraw.
An' he turned aff from the door, an' wint round to the cow-house, an' settled himself as well as he could, in the sthraw; an' he was tired enough wid the thravellin' he had in the day-time, an' a good dale bothered with what liquor he had taken; so he was purty sure of sleepin' wherever he thrun himself.
His call being answered for "the beast," "the man" next demanded attention; and the landlord wondered all the wonders he could cram into a short speech, at seeing Misther Murphy, sure, at such a time; and the sonsy landlady, too, was all lamentations for his illigant coat and his poor eye, sure, all ruined with the mud: and what was it at all? an upset, was it? oh, wirra! and wasn't it lucky he wasn't killed, and they without a spare bed to lay him out dacent if he was sure, wouldn't it be horrid for his body to be only on sthraw in the barn, instead of the best feather-bed in the house; and, indeed, he'd be welcome to it, only the gintlemen from town had them all engaged.
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