Begob, the Shan Bui kept the one gallop always, the same as a thrain, and we battherin' the road afther him, and the dogs and all screechin' down the hill before us. Your heart'd rise if ye were listenin' to them!
"He'll run to the say with him!" says Dan, "the two o' them'll be cliffted!"
"Sorra fear of him!" says I, "what a fool he is! Look at him now, tightening himself comin' down to the gate!"
Begannies! The villyan wheeled into the yard as nate as a bicycle, and every hound in the pack was in it before him!
"THE VILLYAN WHEELED INTO THE YARD AS NATE AS A BICYCLE"
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Twas the week afther, and I goin' to owld Dick Courtney's funeral (the Lord have mercy on him) and who would I meet only Anne Roche!
Well now I declare to ye, divil such an ateing ever I got from any woman! The dogs wouldn't pick me bones afther her! Sure she pitched all that was within and without to the Seventeen Divils.
And sure there was no blame on me at all, only she seen them two young whipsthers o' mine when they thrown the owld bag they had with the ferret's bed back into her hen-house, and they near dead with thralling it out through the counthry.