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Updated: June 9, 2025
Amidst all his apparent gayety of heart and national drollery and wit, the poor Irish emigrant has sad thoughts of the "ould mother of him," sitting lonely in her solitary cabin by the bog-side; recollections of a father's blessing and a sister's farewell are haunting him; a grave mound in a distant churchyard far beyond the "wide wathers" has an eternal greenness in his memory; for there, perhaps, lies a "darlint child" or a "swate crather" who once loved him.
They say that lots o' young fellows are afther the daughter, for though the Drews are as poor as church rats, she's got such a swate purty face, and such innocent ways wid her, that I'd try for her mesilf av it wasn't that I've swore niver to forsake me owld grandmother."
"Yet the tumbler full would be a great blessing for us all, just now," murmured Mrs. Budd. "And is n't mutthon good 'atin', ladies! Och! if I had but a good swate pratie, now, from my own native Ireland, and a dhrap of milk to help wash it down!
I didn't mane to get dhrunk that day, ye know, nor to make a frind of " "I am no ghost but my own self, Teddy, restored to my husband in safety. Can you not welcome me?" "Oorah! Oorah!" and he danced a moment in uncontrollable joy. Then he exclaimed: "God bliss yer own swate self!" taking her in his brawny arms. "God bliss you! No ghost, but yer own swate self.
Yer smilin' again like me old Aileen, an' bad cess to the wan that draws another tear from your swate Irish eyes." She kissed her heartily. In trying to make amends Mrs. McCann forgot her own woes; taking Billy in her arms, she went to the stove and set on the kettle.
An' afther the first sip, the child lifts herself up on one arm, and sez, with a swate smile and a toss of the glass: "'I looks towards you, Scotty, sez she. "'I observes you and bows, miss, sez he, makin' as if he was dhrinkin' wid her. "'Here's another nail in yer coffin, old man, sez she winkin'.
Kate tried to laugh a little and to say what a long time ago it was since then. But Pete, being started, laughed uproariously, slapped his knee, and rattled on. "Up at the mill, too d'ye remember that now? Yourself with the top of a barrel for a flower basket, holding it 'kimbo at your lil hip and shouting, 'Violets! Swate violets!
Nannie caught him this time, though, as she returned from her labors, and the boy's face grew redder still, as if he had been detected in some mean act, but her good-natured smile reassured him, and he found his tongue. "It's listening for Winnie I am," said he, "and I've not seen her swate face the week."
"'Tis worth the doin', ivery bit of it, darlin', the bither an' the swate, the hard an' the aisy, the rough an' the smooth, the good an' the bad," said Mrs. Flynn to her this very Easter morning.
Trappème to contemplate. So she capitulated. "Don't be so hasty, Mary. I suppose, then, that Miss Carolan is an Irishwoman?" "She is that, indade. Sore an' her swate face toold me so before she spoke to me at all, at all." "Then you must look after her wants yery carefully, Mary. She will only be here for a few weeks." Mary's angry eyes softened. "I will that ma'am.
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