Part 5 (1/2)
”Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo--what'll I do, at all at all! Oh, sir dear, sir dear, sir dear--hoo-hoo-hoo.”
”Did she send no message, good or bad, before I lay on?”
”Oh, not a word, sir, only that my father killed a pig yestherday, and he wants you to go up to-day at dinner-time.”--(Buz, buz, buz.)
”It's time to get lave--it isn't, it is--it isn't, it is,” etc.
”You lie, I say, your faction never was able to fight ours; didn't we lick all your dirty breed in Builagh-battha fair?”
”Silence there.”--(Buz, buz, buz.)
”Will you meet us on Sathurday, and we'll fight it out clane!”
”Ha-ha-ha! Tim, but you got a big fright, any how: whist, ma bouchal, sure I was only jokin' you; and sorry I'd be to bate your father's son, Tim. Come over, and sit beside myself at the fire here. Get up, Micky Donoghue, you big, burnt-s.h.i.+nn'd spalpeen you, and let the dacent boy sit at the fire.”
”Hulabaloo hoo-hoo-hoo--to go to give me such a welt, only for sitting at the fire, and me brought turf wid me.”
”To-day, Tim?”
”Yes, sir.”
”At dinner time, is id?”
”Yes, sir.”
”Faith, the dacent strain was always in the same family.”--(Buz, buz, buz.)--
”Horns, horns, c.o.c.k horns: oh, you up'd vrid them, you lifted your fingers--that's a mark, now--hould your face, till I blacken you!”
”Do you call thim two sods, Jack Laniran? why, 'tis only one long one broke in the middle; but you must make it up tomorrow. Jack, how is your mother's tooth?--did she get it pulled out yet?”
”No, sir.”
”Well, tell her to come to me, and I'll write a charm for it, that'll cure her.--What kept you' till now, Paddy Magouran?”
”Couldn't come any sooner, sir.”
”You couldn't, sir--and why, sir, couldn't you come any sooner', sir?”
”See, sir, what Andy Nowlan done to my copy.”--(Buz, buz, buz.)--
”Silence, I'll ma.s.sacree yez if yez don't make less noise.”--(Buz, buz, buz.)
”I was down with Mrs. Kavanagh, sir.”
”You were, Paddy--an' Paddy, ma bouchal, what war you doing there, Paddy?”
”Masther, sir, spake to Jem Kenny here; he made my nose bleed.”--
”Eh, Paddy?”