But they said to me partic'ler, as how ivery man o' thim got out o' the mine befoor the carriage fell.

Och sure we've heard all about thim.

Many a time the traveller has observed thim flyin' away wid a foal in their jaws, the rapparees!

"It bothers the head off of me," said Molly Tooney to Mike, as she sat eating her supper in the Cobhurst kitchen, "to try to foind out what thim two upstairs is loike, anyway, 'specially her.

And in the two Sundays I've been here, nather of thim's been to church.

If they knowed what was becomin' to thim, they'd behave like Christians, if they are heretics.

There's not much quality about thim two.

I wouldn't be here working for the likes o' thim, if it was not for me wish to oblige Miss Panney, poor old woman as she's gittin' to be.

"If you hauls your weeds to market, it'll take more wagons than you can hire in this country, and thim's the only craps my oi has lit on yit.

Has thim two, upstairs, got any money?

"Bedad," she said aloud, "to-morrer I'll clane thim lamp-chimbleys and swape the bidrooms.

" "Be me sowl, Mr. Harvey, but thim savages says he's not an Injin, but a white man, and yees know they cannot be mistook fur they've got eyes like hawks, and sinses sharper than me only needle, which, begorrah, hasn't got a point.

" "P'raps thim tracks there was made fornenst the night, and that it's ourselves that was not here first.

Now niver fear, me darlint, it's a powerful good place, it is too, to thim as kapes the right side o' Misthress Millicent; for she's the only daughter, and the mother is dead and gone, poor soul!"

"Wan o' thim woild bastes as laffs at nothin' much.

Oi've got foive sons, sorr, and ivery wan o' thim byes is conthracthors, or, what's as good, bosses uv gangs on public an' proivate works.

There ain't wan uv thim foive byes as don't conthrol twinty-foive votes, an' there ain't wan uv 'em as don't moind what the ould mon says to um.

Whin oi tould the Finn Club, wan hundred sthrong, he losht thim.

Whin oi tould th' byes, he losht thim.

An' whin they tould their twinty-foive apiece, ivery twinty-foive o' thim wint.

Put an injine on each and keep thim movin'!

" Bridget, meanwhile, went off, threatening all sorts of reprisals on the part of her brother, who "wouldn't see her imposed upon by the likes of thim, not he!"

"Sure, an' some av thim burds will make good eatin', so they will!"

How'd ye like to be beyant at the Union, where the nurses gobbles up all the nourishment that's ordhered for the poor misfortunate cratures that's in it, an leaves thim sthretched from mornin' till night without doin' a hand's turn for them.

An' the trouble we've had to cover up our blessed church out o' sight of thim marautherin' thieves!