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The South lay battered and bruised, and pros trate in blood, the "Niobe of nations," as sad a victim of ingratitude as King Lear.
Divil a dacent stitch I have, an' I want either it, or another, made up before the ball night."* * Country dances, or balls, in which the young men pay from ten to fifteen pence for whiskey "to trate the ladies." We hope they will be abolished. "Well, upon my soundhers, Syl, I did not think you were such a fool; of coorse I'll pass my opinion on it about seven o'clock, you say."
"How's the girl to have her black ready?" Oh, I'll be faithful, I'll give it them straight, it's a time for spaking like a dying man to dying men; I'll take a tex' that'll be a lesson and a warning, 'Ho, every one that thirsteth " Black Tom tsht and spat again. "I wouldn't, Cæsar; they'll think you're going to trate them," he muttered.
"Jezebel back ag'in in your own teeth, and damned piddler too, Mr. Sargeant!" cried Betty, who was easily roused. "What have I to do with piddlers, or escapes? I might have been a piddler's lady, and wore my silks, if I'd had Sawny M'Twill, instead of tagging at the heels of a parcel of dragooning rapscallions, who don't know how to trate a lone body with dacency."
This was an agreeable command to the messengers, who, as soon as they found themselves mounted, made a bet of a "trate," to be paid on arriving in the town to which they were sent, to him who should first reach a little stream that crossed the road at the entrance of it, called the "Pound burn."
May the Lord pity and give him strength! for I can say on my dyin' bed that, from the first day I ever seen his face until now, he never gave me a harsh word or an unkind look, an' that you all know." "Oh how could he, mother dear? how could any one give you that? Who was it that ever knew you could trate you with anything but respect and affection?"
The recollection flashed across him now, and he immediately looked away again, stiffening himself more than ever. "I thought the day 'ud never come," lamented Roseen, "when ye would be back wid me. I never closed an eye last night countin' the time an' me heart leppin' that much for joy, that the bed shook undher me an' this is the way ye go trate me when ye do come home!"
"Bad luck to yous! where were you born, to handle the body of a dead man the like o' that?" said he. "Have yous no rispict for the mim'ry of a haro, that yous trate his ramains so ongintlemanly? Hould up your ind, darlint, and walk aisy wid it!" "Lively there," cried Captain Drawler, "lively, men!" "Bad luck to your soul for a blackguard, as ye are!" shouted Pat.
I wish he may trate her well, that's all; for he's a hard man, and it's bad for her to be leaving the ould place without the priest's blessing." Ussher was at the gateway; but when he got there, he could not see Feemy. He waited about a minute, and then whistled a minute more, and he whistled again. What should he do? It would be so foolish now for him to go without her!
So out I steps, and in steps the miner, and hands me the whole he'd offered at first. "`Take them, my man, says he; `you're an honest fellow, and it's a trate to meet wan here." "Capital," cried Ned, laughing heartily; "and you didn't try for a letter after all?" "Porter there?" shouted a voice from the quay. "That's me, yer honer.
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