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Updated: May 14, 2025
As most of the decorations and wreaths had been made and hung up by May Maylands and two of her telegraphic friends, there was a pervading influence of woman about Pegaway Hall, in spite of Phil's ungallant and un-Irish vote.
In short, I have urged that the policy of revenge is un-Christian and unintelligent, and, that, as the Irish people are neither irreligious nor stupid, it is un-Irish. I well remember taking up this position in conversation with some very advanced Irish-Americans in the Far West and the reply which one of them made. "Wal," said my half-persuaded friend, "mebbe you're right.
Crawford has a box to the fight to-night, and he thought perhaps you'd like to go along with us." "A boxing-match?" "Ten rounds, light-weights; and fast boys, too. Both Irish." "Really, I shall be glad to go." "Webb?" "Yes." "Never use that word 'really' to me. It's un-Irish." Thomas heard a chuckle before the receiver at the other end clicked on the hook.
Before the girl could reply to this speech, which was uttered in a tone of the deepest sympathy, the sick man recovered sufficiently to say "Sit down, friend. How comed ye to larn me name? I guess I never saw ye before." "Sure, didn't I hear yer wife say it as I come for'ard to the tint," answered Larry, somewhat staggered at the un-Irish word "guess." "He is my brother," remarked the girl.
The variations which from time to time were wrought in their names brought them further and further away from what they had been; in their new surroundings, both social and religious, they themselves changed, so that their children, who in many cases married into the neighboring Dutch and French families, became as wholly un-Irish in manner and sentiment as if they had sprung from an entirely different race.
Vulgar and indecent literature was denounced as un-Irish; Irish dances were advocated, not only for their admirable grace and their historic interest, but also because it was held that dances like the waltz, departed from the austere standard of Irish morality.
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