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Updated: June 26, 2025
"Well they ain't; there hasn't been a window open in this house since it was built, and there isn't going to be, letting in dust and flies." Pearl gasped. What would Mrs. Francis say to that? "It's in yer graves ye ought to be then, ma'am," she said with honest conviction. "Mrs. Francis told me never to sleep in a room with the windies all down, and I as good as promised I wouldn't.
"Once upon a time not very long ago, there lived a lovely pink lady in a big house painted red, with windies in ivery side of it, and a bell on the front dure, and a velvet carpet on the stair and " "What's a stair? asked Bugsey.
* Lhin-roe, or red water the Irish name for heart-burn. M'Clutchy handed him a full glass, which he held steadily before his eye, till the other put up the decanter. "Your honor's health, sir," said he, "and fireside; and if you war to throw me out o' fifty windies, I'll add to that here's wishin' that the divil had his own, and I know where you'd soon be."
They used to come buzzing in an' out through the broken windies all day long. "'Och, bedad! I am in luck, says the Spider to himself, 'if on'y the ould woman 'ull let me stop in it an' not be thryin' to desthroy me wid her duster, the way the girl up beyant at the Coort did. But sure, the poor ould woman had other things to be thinkin' of nor to be goin' afther Spiders.
Peter Paterson gave him a wee shove and he fell down the two-three steps into the cellar, and we turned the key on him. Yon cellar has a grand door and no windies." "And Dobson and Leon are at the verandah door? With a light?" "Thomas Yownie's on duty there. Ye can trust him. Ye'll no fickle Thomas Yownie."
It would do you good to look at their hagyard the corn stacks were so nately roped and trimmed, and the walls so well made up, that a bird could scarcely get into it. Their barn and cowhouse, too, and dwelling-house, were all comfortably thatched, and the windies all glazed, with not a broken pane in them.
I found a corner where I was out o' sight o' anybody unless they had come there seekin' me, and I sklimmed up a rone pipe, but a' the windies were lockit and I verra near broke my neck. Syne I tried the roof, and a sore sklim I had, but when I got there there were no skylights. At the end I got in by the coal-hole. That's why ye're maybe thinkin' I'm no' very clean."
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