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"'I can't say I am, sir," said Callaghan, 'I haven't been to say at all well for the last few days, wid a pain down my back. "'Ah, indeed no wondher, Mr.
"There is a weeny glimpse of sunshine, for a wondher. You look heated your face is flushed too, very much, an' the walk will cool you a little." "I know my face is flushed," she replied; "for I feel it burnin', an' so is my head; I have a pain in it, and a pain in the small o' my back too." "Well, come," he continued, "and a walk will be of sarvice to you."
Holt ordered him to lay by the axe, and bring his spade, to dig a hole in a certain spot within the oblong. 'An' its mighty harmless that crathur 'ud be agin the wood, muttered the Irishman; 'throth, the earth in this counthry is mostly timber. An' in the name of wondher what does he want wid a hole, barrin' we're to burrow like rabbits?
"I wondher," said Mr. Dooley, "what me Dutch frind Oom Paul'll think whin he hears that Willum Waldorf Asthor has given four thousan' pounds or twinty thousan' iv our money as a conthribution to th' British governmint?" "Who's Willum Waldorf Asthor?" Mr. Hennessy asked. "I niver heerd iv him." "Ye wudden't," said Mr. Dooley. "He don't thravel in ye'er set.
But tell me pooh ay, is there a thousand quarer things but I say, Biddy, how do you like to live wid this family?" "Why, troth indeed, only for the withered ould leprechaun himself, divil a dacenter people ever broke bread." "Yet, isn't it a wondher that the ould fellow is what he is, an' he so full o' money?" "Troth, there's one thing myself wondhers at more than that."
"They're miserable times, Molly, at least I find them so; for I dunna how it happens, but every one's disappointment falls upon me, till they have me a'most out of house an' home throth it 'ud be no wondher I'd get hard-hearted some day wid the way I'm thrated an' robbed by every one; aye, indeed, bekase I'm good-natured, they play upon me."
It's a wondher to me that th' ocean don't get tired iv growlin' an' roarin' at th' race iv men. They don't pay anny heed to it's hollering. Whin it behaves itsilf they praise it as though it was a good dog. 'How lovely our ocean looks undher our moon. Whin it rises in its wrath they show their contimpt f'r it be bein' sea-sick into it.
'Why, thin, I wondher what th' ould masther 'ull say to our clearin', an' how he'll take to the life, at all, at all; he that niver did a hand's turn yet in the way of business, only 'musin' himself wid papers an' books as any gintleman ought; how he'll stand seein' Masther Robert hoein' and choppin' like a labourin' man? More be token, it's little o' that thim pair down at Daisy Burn does.
'Thin, says th' clargyman, 'I see no reason why ye shudden't be marrid an' live comfortable, he says. An' marrid they were, in th' same ol' foolish way that people's been marrid in f'r cinchries. 'Tis a wondher to me th' ceremony ain't changed. Th' time is comin', Hinnissy, whin millyionaires 'll not be marrid be Father Murphy, but be th' gov'nors iv th' stock exchange.
'An' whin ye go back where ye come fr'm an' set down with th' rest iv th' sages to wondher whether a man cud possibly go fr'm Richmond to Boston in a week, tell thim, I says, 'that in their day they r-run a corner grocery an' to-day, says I, 'we're op'ratin' a sixteen-story department store an' puttin' in ivrything fr'm an electhric lightin' plant to a set iv false teeth, I says.
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