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Updated: May 8, 2025
At last my uncle Tourlough, or, as the English would call him, Charles, chancing to come to Scotland Road along with his family, I was glad to accept an invitation to join them which he gave me, and with them I have been ever since, travelling about England and Wales and Scotland, helping my aunt with the children, and driving much the same trade which she has driven for twenty years past, which is not an unprofitable one."
How is it all wid ye?" "Quite well. How is it wid yere hanner? "Tolerably. Where do you come from?" "From Chepstow, yere hanner." "And where are you going to?" "To Newport, yere hanner." "And I come from Newport, and am going to Chepstow. Where's Tourlough and his wife?" "At Cardiff, yere hanner; I shall join them again to-morrow." "Have you been long away from them?"
"Nothing, at all, yere hanner; but I spat in his face and went home and told my uncle Tourlough, who forthwith took out a knife and began to sharp it on a whetstone, and I make no doubt would have gone and stuck the fellow like a pig, had not my poor aunt begged him not on her knees. After that we had nothing more to do with the Methodists as far as religion went."
"No; I am thinking of leaving off tramping altogether and going to the Tir na Siar." "Isn't that America?" "It is, yere hanner; the land of the west is America." "A long way for a lone girl." "I should not be alone, yere hanner; I should be wid my uncle Tourlough and his wife." "Are they going to America?"
I stopped and stared too, and at last thought I recognised the features of the uncouth girl I had seen on the green near Chester with the Irish tinker Tourlough and his wife. "Dear me!" said I, "did I not see you near Chester last summer?" "To be sure ye did; and ye were going to pass me without a word of notice or kindness had I not given ye a bit of a hail." "Well," said I, "I beg your pardon.
Their word is not worth a rotten straw, yere hanner, and in every transaction which they have with people they try to cheat and overreach ask my uncle Tourlough, who has had many dealings with them. But what is far worse, they do that which the wildest calleen t'other side of Ougteraarde would be burnt rather than do. Who can tell ye more on that point than I, yere hanner?
Oh, I want to be eased of some of my sins before I go into Wales again, and so do you, Tourlough, for you know how you are sometimes haunted by devils at night in those dreary Welsh hills. Oh sir, give us comfort in some shape or other, either as priest or minister; give us God! Give us God!" "I am neither priest nor minister," said, I, "and can only say: Lord have mercy upon you!"
"The only good counsel I can give you is to keep the commandments; one of them it seems you have always kept. Follow the rest and you can't go very wrong." "I wish I knew them better than I do, yere hanner." "Can't you read?" "Oh no, yere hanner, I can't read, neither can Tourlough nor his wife." "Well, learn to read as soon as possible.
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