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The idea of their rejecting flies served up as mine were was too preposterous. "Well," said he, "ye may be right, sorr: there may be none there at all; but I'll thry them wid a bait, anyhow." In another minute Mr. McGrath was slashing about right and left a bait which to my disordered vision looked as big as a Yarmouth bloater.
You came here to make pace between two dacent men's childher, an' you're as bad, if not worse, yourselves! Oh, wurrah dheelish, what's this! I'm in downright agony! Oh, murdher sheery! Has none o' yez a hand to thry if there's e'er a dhrop of relief in that bottle? or am I to die all out, in the face o' the world, for want of a sup o' somethin' to warm me?" "Darby, thry the horn," said M'Kenna.
An' the teacher in the house said it was DREADFUL and that I must play scales for two years more before I thry a tune. She said I had no ear." Jerry laughed as he replied: "I think they're very pretty." "DO ye? Well watch THEM an' mebbe ye won't mind me singin' so much. An' afther all ye're only a farmer, aren't ye?" "Hardly that," and Jerry laughed again.
"Toime an' again," he resumed, "have I taken my hands tu um pleaded wid um, an' shielded um in many a dhirty scrape, an' ivry toime sez he, wid his ginthlemin's shmile: 'Burke! will ye thry an' overlook it, ould man? . . . Eyah! he's mighty quare. For some rayson he seems tu hate th' idea av a third man bein' here, tho' th' man' wud die for me. Divil a man can I kape here, anyway.
"Go back an' thry the tank," was the command; and Jimmy Shovel climbed over the coal and let himself down feet foremost into the manhole. When he slid back to the footplate his legs were wet to the mid shin. "It's only up to there," he reported, measuring with his hand. Callahan looked at his watch.
Surely that 'ud be dacenter nor to be slungein' about, invintin' truth and lies for other people, whin they're at their work, to make thim laugh, an you doin' nothin' but standin' over thim, wid your hands down to the bottom o' your pockets? Do, Pether, thry it, avick, an' you'll see it 'ill prosper wid us, plase God? "Faix I'm ladin' an asier life, Ellish."
Although Jim saw that Mike was apparently in sport, he knew that the offer of a cash reward for his own betrayal was indeed a sore temptation to him. "Did ye tell 'im anything, Mike?" inquired Jim, solemnly. "Divil a bit." "An' ye knowed I'd lick ye if ye did. Ye knowed that, didn't ye?" "I knowed ye'd thry it faithful, an' if ye didn't do it there'd be niver a man to blame but Mike Conlin."
"You couldn't do it." "Oi wouldn't thry! Oi'd rather tackle a railroad train going at full spheed thin wan av thim runaway critturs." "Get down from there," hissed my brother so close to my ear that it made me bite my tongue. I obediently scrambled down. Ted's face was very red. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself to enter into immediate conversation with a man like that.
'Well, I don't know what we will do, for notices it is impossible to serve. Gad! I'll never forgit how we were pelted the other day such firing of stones, such blawing of horns! I think you'll have to give them the thirty; but we'll thry them at twinty-foive. 'And if they won't take it ? 'What! the thirty? They'll take that and jumping, you needn't fear. Here they come.
It's thryin' to me, Kathleen, an' you know it is for you know how little I ever expected to be brought to this." "Husht, avillish! We'll thry, then, in the name o' God." As she spoke, the children, herself, and her husband entered, to beg, for the first time in their lives, a morsel of food.
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