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Even more terrible than those privations was the fever which supervened. Apart from the lack of food, a great cause of mortality lay in the change of diet. Potatoes form a bulky article of food, and stirabout, unless very carefully made, used to swell after it was consumed.
Then there was nothing known of him till last night, when they found his body on the mountain, and it near eaten by the crows. Then he went on to tell me how different the country had been when he was a young man. 'We had nothing to eat at that time, he said, 'but milk and stirabout and potatoes, and there was a fine constitution you wouldn't meet this day at all.
'I'm busy with a patthern here that is brakin' my heart, says the waiver; 'and antil I complate it and masther it intirely I won't quit. 'Oh, think o' the iligant stirabout, that 'ill be spylte intirely. 'To the divil with the stirabout, says he. 'God forgive you, says she, 'for cursin' your good brekquest. 'Ay, and you too, says he.
Oh, let me put in plenty of tea, for it will never be good; and if your honour takes stirabout, an old hand will engage to make that to your liking, any way; for by great happiness, we have what will just answer for you of the nicest meal the miller made my Grace a compliment of, last time she went to the mill."
The childher, too, all sat up, hoping he'd come home before they'd fall asleep and miss the supper: at last the crathurs, after running about, began to get sleepy, and one head would fall this way and another that way; so Sally thought it hard to let them go without getting their share, and accordingly she put down the pot on a bright fire, and made a good lot of stirabout for them, covering up Larry's share in a red earthen dish before the fire.
But I wonder at you liggin' behind, when 'tis the only Bank Holiday randivoo this side o' Troy. . . ." "'Tidn' for want o' will," Nicky-Nan answered ruefully and truthfully, with a downward glance, which reminded Mrs Penhaligon to be remorseful. "Eh, but I forgot . . . and you with that leg on your mind! But you'll forgive a body as has been these two days in a stirabout.
"'Oh, there's many a true word said in joke, says I. "'Thrue for you, Paddy, says he. "'Oh, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in airnest now, says he; 'you gommoch, says he, 'sure I told you before that's France and, sure, they're all furriners there, says the captain. "'Well, says I, 'and how do you know but I'm as good a furriner myself as any o' thim?
You are not to be ininformed that I am in that situation of life, in which, from my education and other accomplishments, I must be estimated as duly qualified to ate beef and mutton instead of bacon, an' to have my tay breakfast instead of stirabout, which, in polite society, is designated porridge.
"Then you had better have some," and the Leprecaun took a piece of griddle bread from the shelf and filled two saucers with milk. While the children were eating the Leprecauns asked them many questions "What time do you get up in the morning?" "Seven o'clock," replied Seumas. "And what do you have for breakfast?" "Stirabout and milk," he replied. "It's good food," said the Leprecaun.
Peety, who was well known and a great favorite on his rounds, received a warm and hospitable welcome from Jemmy Burke, who made him and the girl sit upon the hob, and immediately ordered them breakfast. "Here, Nancy Devlin, get Peety and the girsha their skinfuls of stirabout an' milk. Sit over to the fire, alanna, an' warm yourself."
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