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The consequence is, that the child is named after and dedicated to some particular saint, in the hope that his influence may obviate his evil doom. "Make yourself aisy, I say; don't I tell you I have the prayer to keep it back hach! hach! why, there's a bit stuck in my throath, some way! Wurrah dheelish, what's this!
"Nothing particular from Ahadarra," replied the son, "but our good-natured friend, Jemmy Burke, had his house broken open and robbed the night before last." "Wurrah deheelish" exclaimed his mother, "no, he hadn't!" "Well, mother," replied Bryan, laughing, "maybe not. I'm afeard it's too true though." "An' how much did he lose?" asked his father. "Between seventy and eighty pounds," said Bryan.
"Well! see what it is to have the good intintions! to be makin' pace an' friendship atween inimies! That's all I think about, an' nothin' gives me greater pleas Saints o' glory! what's this! Oh wurrah! that thief of a wurrah dheelish! that touch o' configuration's comin' back agin! O, thin, but it's hard to get it undher! Oh!"
Those Christian people were governed by one man, Sultan Kin, who had a deputy called Wurrah, renowned alike for his ferocity of character and his ability to govern. For some years Darud and his Arab followers led a quiet, peaceable life, gaining the confidence of his host, and inspiring Kin's subjects with reverence for their superior talents.
When they had left the house a bit, the priest sent after them 'Jemmy, says he to Finigan, 'I forgot a circumstance, and that is, to tell you that I will go and marry them at your own house, and bring Father James, my curate with me. 'Oh, wurrah, no, said both, 'don't mention that, your Reverence, except you wish to break their hearts, out and out! why, that would be a thousand times worse nor making them stand to do penance: doesn't your Reverence know that if they hadn't the pleasure of running for the bottle, the whole wedding wouldn't be worth three half-pence? 'Indeed, I forgot that, Jemmy. 'But sure, says my uncle, 'your Reverence and Father James must be at it, whether or not for that we intended from the first. 'Tell them I'll run for the bottle, too, says the priest, laughing, 'and will make some of them look sharp, never fear.
"Well now," said he, "see what it is for a pious man to forget his devotions, even for one day. I forgot to say my Leadan Wurrah this mornin', and that is the raison that your temptation has overcome me.
She rose whilst speaking and getting the bottle alluded to, sprinkled both herself and him, after which she hung it up again in its former position. "There, now, nothin' harmful, at any rate, can come near us afther that, blessed be his name. Well, what did you hear comin' home? I mean at the Rabbit Bank. Wurrah," she added, shuddering, "but it's it that's the lonely spot after night!
"`Be jabers, says Pat, as he goes forward in obedience to the chief officer's order, `it's a nice pleasant look-out I'll have all by meeself! while you're coilin' the ropes here, I'll be thinkin' of my colleen there! and he went out on the foc'sl. "By and by we could hear him muttering to himself. `Wurrah, wurrah!
Oh, wurrah sthrew! wurrah sthrew! what'll become of us! Dick, agra, says she, crying, 'Dick, acushla machree, don't you hear, me spaiking to you! don't you hear your poor broken-hearted mother spaking to you? Oh! wurrah! wurrah! amn't I the heart-brokenest crathur that's alive this day, to see the likes of such doings! but I knew it would come to this!
Here's the bread, an' the salt, an' the male for yez, an' we wish ye well. Eh? saints above, if it isn't listenin' they are jist like a Christhien! Wurrah, but ye are the wise an' the quare crathurs all out!"
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