Irish ways . two kittens would constantly slip in and outunder the closed door of the right-hand chamber,and she, being too portly to follow them throughthe narrow crevice, could only wait in a helplesshen-with-ducklings fashion on the wrong side of experiences might well have made her feeluneasy when they were lost to sight. For : Sureit was about drowndin the one of them we werelast week out there in the sea. For what wouldwe do wid three cats growin up in the little house ?But if we did, the crathur went swimmin in herselfafter it, goodness may pity her, and fetched it backto shor
Irish ways . two kittens would constantly slip in and outunder the closed door of the right-hand chamber,and she, being too portly to follow them throughthe narrow crevice, could only wait in a helplesshen-with-ducklings fashion on the wrong side of experiences might well have made her feeluneasy when they were lost to sight. For : Sureit was about drowndin the one of them we werelast week out there in the sea. For what wouldwe do wid three cats growin up in the little house ?But if we did, the crathur went swimmin in herselfafter it, goodness may pity her, and fetched it backto shore in her mouth, wid neer a hit on it. Sothen we hadnt the heart to be takin it away fromher again. As she cannot, of course, have under-stood this change of purpose in her ruling powers,she was still prowling distractedly, when the rainintermitted, and her mistress from the thresholdwatched their strange company away across thesilvery sand, pricked through with grey-green bent-grass and many-tinted JOANNAS TWO FORTUNES Martin Byrne wished to goodness that the youngrapscalhon had kept out of Clonowen ; he mighthave gone anywhere else at all, so long as he haddone that; and in this wish several of Martinsneighbours shared. The occasion of it was TomClancy, who had lately come to stay with a great-aunt, old Mrs. Finny, up at Knockree. If you saidthat Tom was good-looking and agreeable in hismanners, you would have honestly reckoned up allhis best quahties ; but the worst of them was thatthey were of a sort which will often dispose peopleto credit their possessor with a variety of other 40 IRISH WAYS merits, wherein he may be ahnost entirely amongst those who entertained such a de-hision about Tom Clancy was Martin Byrnes onlysister Joanna. This, for every reason, was aserious annoyance to Martin. Ever since theirparents death he had been managing Joannasaffairs, which had prospered so well under his sixyears guardianship that the few head of cattleorigina
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