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Updated: June 21, 2025
Some son of Erin was spelling out his sorrow to the darkness with that profound and garrulous eloquence which is in the character of my people. "Wirra, wirra! Sorrow the day I would be leaving Ireland against my own will and intention, and may the rocks go out to meet the lugger that brought me here! It's beginning to rain, too! Sure it never rains like this in Ireland!
He never heard the shouts and shrieks which the incident occasioned above his head. Once only he became dimly conscious of a quivering network of prismatic flashes, which he could not see through, and a booming throb in his ears, which made him murmur dazedly: "Wirra, I thought I'd got beyond hearin' of them drums." In another moment: "What's took me?" he said, with a start.
'O, wirra, wirra, but afther this night I'll never be out mylone again. I shall always think that I see him forninst me, as I met him beyant, the night. "'Met Matthew Collins? The gossoon's crazy, said the priest. "'The young devil is lying, more likely. The dead don't come back to frighten honest folk, who want only their own, said Peter, scornfully.
"I tell you what it is," said Matty, jumping up, "I'll crack your head if you don't behave yourself!" and she seized the stool on which she had been sitting, and brandished it in a very amazonian fashion. "Oh, wirra! wirra!" said Andy, in amaze "aren't you my wife?"
"So, begorra! there wor nothing left for me to do but to ATE thim! Wirra! but it was the crooel worruk." "Excuse me, my lord," interrupted the gasping voice of Pi Bol as he began to back from the pool, "I am but a horse, I know, and being built in that way naturally have the stomach of one yet, really, my lord, this er" And his voice was gone. The next moment he had disappeared.
"'Come, your reverence, come, for the love of marcy! Sure didn't I see him myself! Oh, wirra, wirra! "'What is it, ye ould fool? said M'Kenny. "'It's Father Con Doran, your reverence, that was buried last week, and there he is up now, coffin and all, saying a midnight Mass as lively as ever. "Poor Mrs. Rogers, God help her!
"'Now, no more of your palaver, Misther Connor, says the cat; 'just be off and get me the shoes." "'Tare an' ouns! says Tom, 'what'll become o' me if I'm to get shoes for my cats? says he, 'for you increase your family four times a year, and you have six or seven every time, says he; 'and then you must all have two pair a piece wirra! wirra! I'll be ruined in shoe-leather, says Tom.
"It was the heap o' stones they left in the road since last autumn; and though I riz him at it fairly, he dragged the ould mare over it and broke the pole. Oh, wirra, wirra!" cried he, wringing his hands in an agony of grief, "sure there's neither luck nor grace to be had with ye since the day ye drew the judge down to the last assizes!" "Well, what's to be done?"
"Wirra, wirra!" shouted MacPherson. "Faith, an' there's powder for both!" His hands shook as he hurried to cram the old pipe full of tobacco. The cartridges could wait. He struck a light and gave a deep sigh of content as he began to puff. Chick had been grievously hurt in the contest with the Senestro, but thanks to the Rhamdas he came round rapidly. It was a matter of less than a week.
"The blessin' o' God on him," they said of Louis, "for priest is written all over him, an' how could he help it wid such a mother." "She's fit for a king," they said of Mona. "Wirra, an' to think she'd look at a plain man like Doyle Grahame."
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