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McCarthy! come over here! Sure, ye're gettin' proud, passin' by ye'er ol' frinds. How's thricks in th' Ninth? D'ye think he will? Well, I've heerd that, too; but they was a man in here to-day that says the Boohemians is out f'r him with axes. Good-night. Don't forget th' number.
'Well, afther they war on the road betther nor half an hour, they kem to the bad bit close by Father Crotty's, an' there was one divil of a rut three feet deep at the laste; an' the car got sich a wondherful chuck goin' through it, that it wakened Terence widin in the basket. "Bad luck to ye," says he, "my bones is bruck wid yer thricks; what the divil are ye doin' wid me?"
'Sure, of coorse, they can't be up to his thricks, an' he an ould sojer! And here Andy let fly vivaciously beneath his unconscious adversary's left ear, restraining the knuckles within about half an inch of his throat. 'Are you speaking to me, my good man? said the captain, suddenly wheeling round upon Andy, who sat face to his back.
"But it must be mighty improvin', I think, ketching of thieves, and finding out their thricks and hidin'-places, and the like?" "Yes, yes," said Goggins, "good fun; though I don't do it, I know all about it, and could tell queer things too." "Arrah, maybe you would, sir?" said Larry. "Maybe I will, after we nibble some rashers will you take share?"
They thried some av their dog's thricks on me, but I dhrew a line round my cot, an' the man that thransgressed ut wint into hospital for three days good. 'O'Hara had put his spite on the room he was my Colour Sargint an' nothin' cud we do to plaze him. I was younger than I am now, an' I tuk what I got in the way av dressing down and punishment-dhrill wid my tongue in my cheek.
I'm a good mind to swipe yez over th' nut wid me lanthern an' take ut away from yez!" McHale drew the weapon gently, and spun it on his finger, checking the revolutions six times with startling suddenness. Mr. Quilty watched him sourly. "Play thricks!" he commented. "Spin a gun! Huh! Why don't yez get a job wid a dhrama that shows the West as it used to wasn't?
A light streamed from out the front windows, but, uncertain who might be harbored within, Keith tapped gently at the back door. It was not opened immediately, and when it was finally shoved aside the merest crack, no glow of light revealed the darkened interior. The voice which spoke, however, was amply sufficient to identify its owner. "Is that ye agin, Murphy, a playin' av yer dirthy thricks?"
"Trath an' I must know you, thin, and that very soon," replied M'Carthy. "Come into the next room, then," said the other. "Anywhere you like," he replied, "I'm wit you; but I'm not the boy to be humbugged, or to bear your thricks upon thravellers." "Now," said the other, when they had got into the room where the corpse lay, "shake hands."
Keegan'd never put a second foot on the lands of Ballycloran; and they war the more hot about this, as they knew Mr. Thady war agin the Captain about his sisther, for he thought thim two were too thick like; and he used to be saying as how Ussher war playing his thricks with Miss Feemy. Well, along of this and knowing as how the masther were agin Mr.
"Madam!" cried Macshane, in a stern voice, "honour before everything. Did you not, in the presence of his worship, vow and declare that you gave me that horse, and now d'ye talk of taking it back again? Let me tell you, madam, that such paltry thricks ill become a person of your years and respectability, and ought never to be played with Insign Timothy Macshane."
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