This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...vein of humor, which in Ireland mingles even with death and calamity, was also visible here. The ragged half-itarved creatures laughed heartily at the oddity of their own inventions, and enjoyed the ingenuity with which they made shift to meet the exigencies of the occasion, without in the slightest degree ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1833 edition. Excerpt: ...vein of humor, which in Ireland mingles even with death and calamity, was also visible here. The ragged half-itarved creatures laughed heartily at the oddity of their own inventions, and enjoyed the ingenuity with which they made shift to meet the exigencies of the occasion, without in the slightest degree having their sympathy and concern for the afflicted youth lessened. " When their arrangements were completed, one of them (he of the scythe) made a little whey, which, in lieu of spoon, he stirred with the end of his tobacco-knife; he then extended it across the ditch upon a shovel, after having put it in a tin porringer. "' Do you want a taste o' whey, avourneen?' "' Oh, I do, ' replied Jemmy; ' give me a drink for God's sake.' "'There it is, a bouchal, on the shovel. Musha if myself rightly knows what side you 're lyin' an, or IM put it as near your lips as I could. Come, man, be stout, don't be cast down at all at all; sure, bud-an-age, we're ahovellin' the whay to you, any how.' "'I have it, ' replied the boy, --'oh, I have it. May God never forget this to you whoever you are.'" In this way the working-hours are spent, and now comes the cream of the jest: --" When the hour of closing th- day's labor arrived, Major came down to inspect the progress which his mowers had made, and the good-nesa of his crop upon his meadows. No sooner was he perceived at a distance, than the scythes were instantly resumed, and the mowers pursued their employment with an appearance of zeal and honesty that could not be suspected. " On arriving at the meadows, however, he was evidently startled at the miserable day's work they had performed. "' Why, Connor, ' said he, addressing the nurse-tender, ' how is this? I protest you have not performed half a day's labor!...
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