Isn't he the droll crathur?")
* This sound, which expresses wonder, is produced by
striking the tip of the tongue against the palate.
"But suppose a man hasn't money, what is he to do? Now this divides
itself into what is called Hydrostatics an' Metaphuysics, and must be
proved logically in the following manner:
"First, we suppose him not to have the money--there I may be wrong or I
may be right; now for the illustration and the logic.
"Pether Donovan."
"Here, your Reverence."
"Now, Pether, if I suppose you to have no money, am I right, or am I
wrong?"
"Why, thin, I'd be sarry to prove your Reverence to be wrong, so I
would; but, for all that, I believe I must give it aginst you."
"How much have you got, Pether?"
"Ethen, but 'tis your Reverence that's comin' close upon me; two or
three small note an' some silver."
"How much silver, Pether?"
"I'll tell your Reverence in a jiffy--I ought to have a ten shillin',
barring the price of a quarther o' tobaccy that I bought at the
crass-roads boyant. Nine shillins an' somo hapuns, yer Reverence."
"Very good, Pether, you must hand me the silver, till I give the rest of
the illustration wid it."
"But does your Reverence mind another ould proverb?--'a fool an' his
money's asy parted.' Sure an' I know you're goin' to do a joke upon me."
("Give him the money, Pether," from a hundred voices--"give his
Reverence the money, you nager you--give him the silver, you dirty
spalpeen you--hand it out, you misert.
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