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'Wait till I get at you, says Jim, hittin' the door a lick iv the wattle you'd hear half a mile off. 'It's him, sure enough, says Nell; 'I know his speech; it's his wandherin' sowl that can't get rest, the crass o' Christ betune us an' harm. 'Let me in, says Jim, 'or I'll dhrive the door in a top iv yis.
But it blew the cholera away an' niver another case there was all the while we was waitin' ten days in quarintin'. Av you will belave me, the thrack av the sickness in the camp was for all the wurruld the thrack av a man walkin' four times in a figur-av-eight through the tents. They say 'tis the Wandherin' Jew takes the cholera wid him. I believe ut.
"So Connor dear," proceeded the old man, not attending to him, "in makin' any bargain, Connor, be sure to make as hard a one as you can; but for all that be honest, an' never lind a penny o' money widout interest." "I think he's wandherin'," whispered his mother. "Oh grant it may be so, marciful Jasus this day!" "Honor ahagur." "Well, darlin', what is it?"
"It's bedtime," said he; "and I'm going to tether Em'leen, for fear she'd be walkin' in her slape, and wandherin' away an' bein' lost in the woods." "I don't want to be tethered," said Emmeline. "It's for your own good I'm doin' it," replied Mr Button, fixing the string round her waist. "Now come 'long."
'By my sowkins, says Nell, 'it's bad enough we are, your raverence, says she, 'for it's poor Jim's sperit, says she; 'God rest his sowl, wherever it is, says she, 'that was wandherin' up an' down, opossite the door all night, says she, 'in the way it was no use at all, thryin' to get a wink iv sleep, says she. 'It's to lay it, you want me, I suppose, says the priest.
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