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. 1825 Excerpt: ...now? Ye 've been maimed, Katty tould me, and I was sorry, do you see me now, Dillon Tertius. You got an optime last January." "Yes, Sir." "Then hop to me, Dillon Tertius, he! he! and what have you got? a roul, ahem!--Give me a pin, Dillon Tertius, and I 11 prick down the absent, d'ye see me now, and fine 'em." Shirt, ...
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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. 1825 Excerpt: ...now? Ye 've been maimed, Katty tould me, and I was sorry, do you see me now, Dillon Tertius. You got an optime last January." "Yes, Sir." "Then hop to me, Dillon Tertius, he! he! and what have you got? a roul, ahem!--Give me a pin, Dillon Tertius, and I 11 prick down the absent, d'ye see me now, and fine 'em." Shirt, waistcoat, coat, small clothes, every garment did Arthur search for a pin, eyeing during the vain search the greasy cuff of the vice-provost's coat, in which at least fifty of the said little articles stuck secure. Still the old gentleman took care not to disturb one; not VOL. I. H that they escaped his notice, his eye as well as Arthur's was on them, but his soul was set on gaining a pin, and he again demanded, "A pin, Dillon Tertius?" "I have not one, Sir." "Then, Dillon Tertius, do you see me now, go to your room and bring one; and don't think the next time, that the vice-provost of Trinity College is bound to keep you in pins." As there was no proving the contrary cf this, Arthur was about to retire in search of what the college dignitary so inexorably demanded, when he whom the doctor had addressed as Dominie, pulled at once the grand desideratum from his shirt collar, and handed it to his learned antagonist. Whilst the doctor was examining the roll, and pricking down the names which he marked out for fine and punishment, Arthur and the Dominie first scanned and soon recognized each other; the latter knowing his young acquaintance with little loss of time, whilst Arthur remained for a considerable space unable to determine who was, or where he had met, the personage before him. The vice-provost in the mean time returned him the roll, putting the pin, as a perquisite, with the rest of i...
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Add this copy of Today in Ireland, Volume 1 to cart. $53.53, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Nabu Press.
