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O'Shaughnessy has every other portion of the dinner ready, I move that we commence operations as soon as possible." "But Denis, Docthor? it would be a pleasure to me to have him, poor fellow, wid all his throuble over, and his mind at ase; maybe if we wait a weeshy while longer, Docthor, that he'll come, and you know Father Molony too is to come yet, and some more of our friends."
"See here, neighbors, obsarve this; the boy was shot in the breast, an' here's not a snow wreath, but a weeshy dhrift that a child 'ud step acrass widout an accident. I tell you all, that I suspect foul play in this." "Hell's fire," exclaimed the brother of the deceased, "what's that you say? What!
During this and some other observations made by Darby, Frank had got the gun in his possession; and, whilst seeming to be engaged in looking at it, and examining the lock, he actually contrived to reload it without having been observed. "Now, neighbors," said Darby, "hould your tongues for a weeshy start, till I ax Frank M'Kenna a question or two.
He was never what could be called a good man,* though it was said that he could lift ten hundred weight. He puffed forward with a great cudgel, determined to commit slaughter out of the face, and the first man he met was the weeshy fraction of a tailor, as nimble as a hare. He immediately attacked him, and would probably have taken his measure for life had not the tailor's activity protected him.
"Avourneen, Misther O'Shaughnessy," said she, in broken English, "when you ate out all the eggs, maybe you could get a sonsy little corner about the collegian that you're goin' to larn to be a priest in, an' put them both into it; " pointing at the same time to the cock and hen "an' whishper," she continued, in a low friendly voice, "if you could get a weeshy wisp o' sthraw, an slip it undher your own bed, it would make a nest for them, an' they'd lay an egg for your breakfast all days in the year.
'Twas a weeshy grain o' male that I got from a friend; an' as Ned Connor here tauld me that this crathur had nothin' to make the gruel for him, why I shared it wid him, bekase he couldn't even beg it, sir, if he wanted it, an' him not able to walk yit." The worthy pastor's eyes glistened with a moisture that did him honor.
But, by God, I was lost, so to speak, in the milky way. He knows them all, faith. At last she spotted a weeny weeshy one miles away. And what star is that, Poldy? says she. By God, she had Bloom cornered. That one, is it? says Chris Callinan, sure that's only what you might call a pinprick. By God, he wasn't far wide of the mark.
"Here, Atty, before you go to bed agin, jist a weeshy sup more to drink your little sisther's health; sure Kate Sharpe brought you home a little sisther, Atty." "The boy's head will not be able to stand so much," said Frank; "you will make him tipsy." "Divil a tipsy; sure it's only a mere draineen." He then made the little fellow drink the baby's health, after which he was despatched to bed.
"Well, Larry, you can't spell Ephabridotas? thin, here's a short weeshy one, and whoever spells it will get the pins; spell a red rogue wid three letters. You, Micky! Dan? Jack? Natty? Alick? Andy? Pettier? Jim? Tim? Pat? Body? you? you? you? Andy. "M, a, t Mat." "No, no, avick, that's myself, Andy; it's red rogue, Andy hem! "F, o, x fox." "That's a man, Andy.
"'Och! by the elevens, says Jack, 'we're done at last; it's the dark fellow, and half the country after us. 'Put your hand, says she, 'in the filly's right ear, and tell me what you find in it. 'Nothing at all, says Jack, 'but a weeshy bit of a dry stick. 'Throw it over your left shoulder says she, 'and see what will happen. Jack did so at once, and there was a great grove of thick trees growing so close to one another, that a dandy could scarcely get his arm betwixt them.
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