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He's a poor little crathur; the face of him this instant isn't the width of a ha'penny herrin'." "And he so continted," said Mrs. Quin, "until he took his fantigue. Rael quare it is." "Most things do be quare and ugly these times," said Mrs. Ahern, "Goodness help us all. There's poor Mrs. Duff thravellin' off to-morra, to go stay wid her brother at Gortnakil.
Well, very well then. There was wan time the Spider an' the Gout was thravellin' together, goin' to seek their fortun's. Well, they come to the crass roads. 'Lookit here, says the Spider, 'it's time for you an' me to be partin' company, says he; 'I'm goin' up along here to the right, says he, 'to that great big house on the hill.
Ye have to wear yer thravellin' clothes when ye're thravellin'." "That will do," said Mrs. Chichester sharply. "Well, but I don't want ye to think me father doesn't buy me pretty clothes. He's very proud of me, an' I am of him an' " "That will do," commanded Mrs. Chichester as Jarvis came in reply to the bell. "Tell Bennett to show my niece to the Mauve Room and to attend her," said Mrs.
And Felix O'Beirne took occasion of a madly skirling gust to say, "Listen now to that, sir, and don't be talkin' wild of thravellin' off to-morra. If I might be sayin' so, you'd a dale better stay quiet where you are this minyit. And as for taichin', sure it's proud and thankful the two boyos 'ud be for e'er a bit more.
"And if it's themselves won't be in the fine astonishment when they set eyes upon you, woman dear!" said Theresa Joyce, "for if you'd been twenty year away thravellin' the world crooked and straight, you couldn't ha' come back a diff'rinter crathur from what you were, and we settin' out this woeful mornin'. Little notion you had what was comin' to you, and it all the while runnin' up your road, so to spake, like the sun racin' the shadows on a windy day.
Brian, turning away from her wide outlook, "we're none so badly off, when we're stoppin' where we are, instid of streelin' about wid the notion of such black villinies in our minds. For sure enough," she said, as she faced round towards the grey-peaked end-walls, and smoke-plumed thatch of Lisconnel, "the world's a quare place to get thravellin' thro', take it as you will."
"Arrah, Brian," said the wife, "cut him up more o' that hung beef, it's ashamed the crathur is! Take it, avick; don't we know the journey you had! Faix, if one o' the boys was out on a day's thravellin', you'd see how he'd handle himself." "Indeed," said James, "I can't if I could I would. Sure I would be no way backward at all, so I wouldn't."
It was thus: 'A man there was near Ballymooney, Was guilty of a deed o' blood, For thravellin' alongside iv ould Tim Rooney. He kilt him in a lonesome wood. 'He took his purse, and his hat and cravat. And stole his buckles and his prayer-book, too; And neck-and-heels, like a cruel savage, His corpus through the wood he drew.
I wish I'd a penny for every mile I've tramped in it. Do you remimber the joke me mother had about it's bein' a conthráry thing that people thravellin' 'ud always begin a mile at the wrong ind? She'd be talkin' that way to hearten up me father; but as often as not he'd on'y let a roar at her to whisht, he was that discouraged.
'I can't afford it, says the waiver, runnin' the horse at the ditch. 'Bad luck to your impidence, says the miller; 'you've as much tin about you as a thravellin' tinker, but you've more brass. Come back here, you vagabone, says he. Well, he was four days goin' to Dublin, for the baste was not the best and the roads worse, not all as one as now; but there was no turnpikes then, glory be to God!
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