thumb-bottle

Updated: May 24, 2025

"'I say it's false, says Father Flannagan, plucking up his courage; 'but you know you're a liar, and the father of liars. "'As thrue as gospel, this bout, I tell you, says the dog. "'Wait till I make my holy wather, says the priest, 'and if I don't cork you in a thumb-bottle for this,* I'm not here.

William Carleton - The Ned M'Keown Stories: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three

"The very time, Briney; but God be thanked, Father Philip settled him to the day of judgment." "And where did he put him, Phaddhy?" "Why, he wanted to be put anundher the hearth-stone; but Father Philip made him walk away with himself into a thumb-bottle, and tied a stone to it, and then sent him to where he got a cooling, the thief, at the bottom of the lough behind the house."

William Carleton - The Station; The Party Fight And Funeral; The Lough Derg Pilgrim: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three