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"Shame, shame!" said Dove, "to say that of your wife." "Shame to yersilf," cried O'Connor indignantly. "Ain't I payin' the good woman a compliment, when I say that she had pity on me bashfulness, and came to me help when I was in difficulty?" "Quite right, O'Connor; but let's have a song if you won't speak." "Would ye thank a cracked tay-kittle for a song?" said Ned.
"Shame to yersilf," cried O'Connor indignantly. "Ain't I payin' the good woman a compliment, when I say that she had pity on me bashfulness, and came to me help when I was in difficulty?" "Quite right, O'Connor; but let's have a song if you won't speak." "Would ye thank a cracked tay-kittle for a song?" said Ned. "Certainly not," replied Peter Logan, who was apt to take things too literally.
It was a philosopher sintimentilisin' over a tay-kittle, I'm towld, as caused the diskivery o' the steam-ingine; it was a sintimintal love o' country as indooced Saint Patrick to banish the varmin from Ireland, an' it was religious sintiment as made Noah for to build the Ark, but for which nother you nor me would have bin born to git cast upon a coral island.
I was stepping home by meself very quiet in the afthernoon to put me tay-kittle on for supper, and herself overtook me, ain't she the bold thing! "'How are you the day, Mrs. Dunl'avy? says she, so mincin' an' preenin', and I knew well she 'd put her mind on having words wit' me from that minute.
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