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Dooley: "Nowadays when a lad goes to college, the prisidint takes him into a Turkish room, gives him a cigareet an' says: Me dear boy, what special branch iv larnin wud ye like to have studied f'r ye be our compitint perfessors?" Such are some of the caustic remarks that we occasionally hear.
A learned man was held to be a ‘man of larnin’,’ a thing of which there was not too much in Suffolk in my young days. A lady in the village sent her son to school, and great was the maternal pride as she called in my father to hear how well her son could read Latin, the reading being reading alone, without the faintest attempt at translation.
That’s how th’ ’Pache does his fightin’. An’ th’ spit-an’-polish officers what come from eastward—they’s got t’ larn that. Only sometimes they ain’t good at larnin’, an’ then they gits larned—good an’ proper. Hey, Kells!" They were at the stable and Fenner lifted a hand, palm out, in greeting to the liveryman. "Here’s Ole Tar wantin’ his special grub—" Drew went on to Shiloh’s stall.
"I wouldn't bring the penalty an' expenses of a wife an' family on me, for the handsomest woman livin'," said Toal. "Oh no; the Lord in mercy forbid that! Amin, I pray." "But," said Art, "is it fair play to the girls not to let that be generally known, Toal?" "Hut," replied the other, "let them pick it out of their larnin', the thieves.
Turning to me, the bearded man said, "Did ye ever hear the pome about Saint Patrick's birthday?" I regretfully admitted that the masterpiece in question had escaped my research, but pleaded in extenuation that I came from England, where the rudiments of polite larnin' and the iliments of Oirish litherature have not yet permeated the barbarian population. Barbatus then recited as follows:
Noa, by the Lord! No school larnin' for me nor mine, thank-ee! Why, the marster of the Board School 'ere doant know more practical business o' life than a suckin' calf! With a bit o' garden ground to 'is cot, e' doant reckon 'ow io till it, an' that's the rakelness o' book larnin'. Noa, noa!
"I'm happy that I can sarve you, ma'am." "Musha, long life to you, masther, for that same, any how but it's yourself that's deep in the larnin' and the langridges; the Lord incrase yer knowledge sure, an' we all want his blessin', you know." "Home, is id?
"Oh! then, but that's a fine cast o' whate!" "It is," replied Jerry; "but in regard to the larnin' I don't undherstand you." "No matther for that, Jerry, I may be a good friend to you yet; ay, indeed may I poor good-natured Jerry; an' when that time comes, if you have any scruple in axin' Misther Moylan to countenance you and befriend you, why it'll be your own fault my poor, good-natured Jerry."
Let alone goin' and makin' an ould fool of meself up at Trinity College.... 'Twas a terrible upset to him when I turned again the Priesthood, after he had the money saved up for the seminary and all. Words about it we had, and the ind of it was he put it all into me brother Ned's little farm. Ned had no more fancy for larnin' than the bastes of the field.
"Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in the extreme, but all in a degree." The chance neighbor or traveller was no less struck with wonder. And many the time have I heard the query, at the Cross-Roads and elsewhere, "Whar Alec Trimble got his larnin'?" The truth is, my father was an object of suspicion to the frontiersmen. Even as a child I knew this, and resented it.
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