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Updated: June 21, 2025
"Oh, yer honour! sorrow a taste in life do we know about it," said the kneeling girl. "Not a sight did we see, or a sound did we hear," said the other, "only the going off of the blunderbuss. Oh, wirra shure! oh, musha, musha! and it's dead he is, the darling boy." Mr. Jones came round and picked up poor Florian and laid him on the car.
Oh, wirra! what'll I ever say to the master? and you doing so beautiful! Wouldn't he give the best baste in his stable to be looking at you to-day? There, take a sup; it's only water. Bad luck to them, but it's hard work beatin' them. They 're only gone now. That's right; now you're coming to." "Where am I, Mike?" "It's here you are, darling, resting yourself."
"She can't help her hair," said Andy. "I wish I could cut it off, and her head along with it, the sthrap! Oh, blessed Vargin! to have my daughter-in-law " "What?" said Andy, getting rather alarmed. "That all the country knows is " "What?" cried Andy. "Not a fair nor a market-town doesn't know her as well as Oh, wirra! wirra!"
His call being answered for "the beast," "the man" next demanded attention; and the landlord wondered all the wonders he could cram into a short speech, at seeing Misther Murphy, sure, at such a time; and the sonsy landlady, too, was all lamentations for his illigant coat and his poor eye, sure, all ruined with the mud: and what was it at all? an upset, was it? oh, wirra! and wasn't it lucky he wasn't killed, and they without a spare bed to lay him out dacent if he was sure, wouldn't it be horrid for his body to be only on sthraw in the barn, instead of the best feather-bed in the house; and, indeed, he'd be welcome to it, only the gintlemen from town had them all engaged.
"Larry," said I and I endeavoured to assume a look of very grave importance as I spoke "I look to you to assist me in this matter." "Och wirra sthrue then, and will you let me go? just listhen to that," and another angry peal rang out, loud and repeated. "If you do as I ask you," I continued, "you shall be well rewarded.
What must John Paul do but burst into the hall where the family sat at dinner, and cry the news to them that "Tam Macmorland was but new lichtit at the door, and wirra, wirra there were nane to come behind him"? They took the word in silence like folk condemned; only Mr. Henry carrying his palm to his face, and Miss Alison laying her head outright upon her hands.
It's I that wud sooner see the plentiful hearths of ould Ireland, where the turf fire cooks the vittles dacently! Oh wirra! why did we ever lave it? But Mr. Wynn intercepted the rising chorus by the simple dissyllable, 'Andy! 'Sir, yer honour! wheeling round, and suddenly resuming a jocose demeanour; 'I was only jokin' about bein' back.
"'Wirra! wirra! sez the mother, 'it's wanderin' she is, the darlin'; for Scotty, don't ye see, was the grand barkeeper of the hotel. "'Savin' yer presence, ma'am, sez I, 'and the child's here, ez is half a saint already, it's thruth she's spakin' it's Scotty she wants. And with that my angel blinks wid her black eyes 'yes. "'Bring him, says the docthor, 'at once.
But och wirra wirra the roof's off of the house och the look of the black houle wid the rafters stickin' thro' it, and ne'er a breath of smoke, till me heart was sick watchin' to see might there be an odd one; and the door clap-clappin'. Sure be that I well knew the child was dead, and me father quit out of it, or maybe buried himself, and I after lavin' them dyin' and starvin'. So for 'fraid somebody'd be comin' out and tellin' me, off I run away into the bog, till I was treadin' here in the could wather.
There's Mac's an' O's in ivry capital iv Europe atin' off silver plates whin their relations is staggerin' under th' creels iv turf in th' Connaught bogs. "Wirra, 'tis hard. Ye'd sa-ay off hand, 'Why don't they do as much for their own counthry? Light-spoken are thim that suggests th' like iv that. 'Tis asier said than done.
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