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"Yes, but," said Reilly, "you know it's the custom of the country." "Mrs. Buckley," asked Fergus, "did the sogers ever pay you a visit?" "They did once," she replied, "about six months ago or more." "What in the name of wondher," he repeated, "could bring them to you?" "They were out huntin' a priest," she replied, "that had done something contrary to the law." "What did they say, Mrs.
"Shall I help you to rise, Nanny?" asked she, her little heart dancing with pleasure at hearing the fervent wish: "iv you like to go home, an' you think me sthrong enough, I'll help you on!" "From my heart I thank you, my purty golden haired child," said the old woman, as with her assistance she at length stood up; "bud you seem to know who I am, and I wondher yer not afeard ov me.
"It was very measured. No wondher the men were crazy to kape me here and to marry me." She caught sight of Alaric and smiled at him. He creased his face into a sickly imitation of a smile and murmured: "Well, of course, I mean to say!" with which clear and well-defined expression of opinion, he stopped. "I could have forgiven you, Alaric," said Peg, "but Mr. Hawkes, I'm ashamed of ye."
"Lord protect us! what will we hear next, I wondher? Well, ma'am?" Here her antagonist stood, evidently waiting for the onset. "You'll hear more than'll go down your back pleasant afore I've done wid you, ma'am." "Don't be makin' us long for it in the mane time, Miss Biddy." "You didn't answer my question, Miss Kitty. Why did you refuse to let me in tonight?"
If you manage your men as you manage your love-makin', small wondher they call you the worst corp'ril in the comp'ny. Come away, mother, sez she. "But divil a fut would the ould woman budge! 'D'you hould by that? sez she, peerin' up under her thick grey eyebrows. "'Ay, an wud, sez I, 'tho' Dinah give me the go twinty times.
The husband rose from his supper, and went up to the hearth where she sat. "Turn round to the light," said he; "why, Mary dear, in the name of wondher, what ails you? for you're like a corpse, sure enough. Can't you tell us what has happened, or what put you in such a state? Why, childhre, the cowld sweat's teemin' off her!"
'Why, then, ye needn't tell me ye're a savidge: it's as plain as a pikestaff. What'll I do with this stick, did ye say, ma'am? Oh, surra bit o' me knows a word she's sayin', though it's mighty like the Irish of a Connaught man. I wondher what it is she's tryin' to make; it resimbles the beginnin' of a big basket at present, an' meself standin' in the inside of the bottom.
Well, one day Kerrigan was standin' chattin' wid his wife, when the shop-windy all at once wint dark, an' Kerrigan roars out, 'What for are ye puttin' up the shutters so airly? says he. An' faix, 'twas no wondher ye'd think it, for ould Hennessy of Ballybofey had fallen down in the street, an' it was the two good-lookin' feet of him stickin' up that was darkenin' the shop.
"'Ah, you cowardly scoundrels, says he, 'that's a disgrace to the counthry, and to the very name of Irishman; it's no wondher for strangers to talk of you as they do no wondher for your friends to have a shamed face for your disgraceful crimes.
However, it was not long before my cork disappeared with a peculiar style of departure abundantly indicative of the cause, to which I replied by a vigorous "strike." My cork came up promptly, and with it my hook, bare. The sunfish had found a grave within the natural enemy of his species, and I had missed my fish. "Divvle a wondher!" said Mr.
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