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Updated: June 10, 2025
Jimmy the boot-boy, on his return from taking the letters to the evening post, fled in panic into the kitchen, and having complied with the etiquette invariable in such cases by having "a wakeness," he described to a deeply sympathetic audience how he had seen something that was like a woman in the avenue, and he had called to it and it returned him no answer, and how he had then asked it three times in the name o' God what was it, and it soaked away into the trees from him, and then there came something rushing in on him and grunting at him to bite him, and he was full sure it was the Fairy Pig from Lough Clure.
Still and all, I won't deny that the sight of a soldier draws me, and that," he concluded modestly, "is my only wakeness." "I say, you don't mean to tell me that you are a real Buddhist?" "Why, of course I am; what else would I be? The religion is pure and good and friendly; the other priests know that I'm from India and that's enough for them.
Whilst! she uttered this fervent but sorrowful benediction, a hand was placed upon the head of each, after which she stooped and kissed them both, but without shedding a single tear. "Now," said she, "comes the mother's wakeness; but my son will help me by his manliness so will my daughter. I am very weak. Oh, what heart can know the sufferin's of this hour, but mine?
He laughed bitterly, and rising kicked the fire together, threw on fresh fuel, and after one look towards the still sleeping Post, returned to the tent, wrapped himself in a blanket, and shortly after fell asleep. Three hours later he was awakened by a clatter of voices and the clamour of barking dogs, passing from sleep to full wakeness like a healthy child.
But it's sivinteen miles I've walked this blessed noight, with nothin' to sustain me, and hevin' a mortal wakeness to fight wid in me bowels, by reason of starvation, and only a bit o' baccy that the Widdy Maloney gi' me at the cross roads, to kape me up entoirley.
It's mebbe a wakeness on ma pairt, but I whiles mak' messages into the room juist to see her sittin' pittin' stitches into that embroidery, as they ca' it, an' hear her gie that little lauch o' hers! She has me fair bewitched. There's a kinna glawmour aboot her. An' I tell ye I culdna stand her by onything at the first.... I even think her bonnie noo an' she's no' that auld.
'In the place, where I spend most iv my time, says he, 'except the little leisure I have for lookin' about me here, says he, 'I have to walk a great dale more than I was ever used to, says he, 'and by far more than is good for me either, says he; 'for I must tell you, says he, 'the people where I am is ancommonly fond iv could wather, for there is nothin' betther to be had; an', moreover, the weather is hotter than is altogether plisint, says he; 'and I'm appinted, says he, 'to assist in carryin' the wather, an' gets a mighty poor share iv it myself, says he, 'an' a mighty throublesome, warin' job it is, I can tell you, says he; 'for they're all iv them surprisingly dhry, an' dhrinks it as fast as my legs can carry it, says he; 'but what kills me intirely, says he, 'is the wakeness in my leg, says he, 'an' I want you to give it a pull or two to bring it to shape, says he, 'and that's the long an' the short iv it, says he.
"Div ye railly think it, Ma'colm?" sighed the factor with a flush. "I div that, sir. Only whan ye grow better, gien ye'll alloo me to say't, sir, ye maunna lat Sawtan temp' ye to think 'at this same repentin' was but a wakeness o' the flesh, an' no an enlichtenment o' the speerit." "I s' tie mysel' up till 't," cried the factor, eagerly.
Hugh McInerney was, of course, at once arrested, without any resistance on his part, or any sympathy from the indignant neighbours. He appeared to be what old Will Sheridan termed, "fallen into a serious consternation," and was heard to make only one remark. It was when people were saying that Theresa Joyce had took a wakeness, and her brothers had carried her indoors.
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