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fetch her. I must have you all here ; I can't do what 

 I wish to do unless you are all here." " Ah ! lang 

 life to yer anner, sure it's a kind gintleman that you 

 are ; sure it's all the poor crathers that will git 

 something this day." Well, having got all his pack 

 together, and quite to his satisfaction, he pronounced 

 the following : " Now, mind you all, mind every one 

 of you, what I say I swear by Jove, that I won't 



give any of you one d ; so you need not ask 



me ; so now you may all go away again." 



This created a great shout of " Ah ! lang life to 

 yer anner ; it's when you lave that you'll give us all 

 something. I'll engage that yer anner will never be 

 laving Ballina without giving us poor widders the 

 price of a male long life to yer ! " 



I remember going into a cabin not far from a 

 river I was fishing in in Erris. Paddy and Mrs. 

 Paddy, about a dozen little Paddies in all states of 

 dirt and nakedness, "the gintleman that pays the 

 rint," the cocks and hens, and a multitude of chickens, 

 were all anxiously employed over their meal of 

 potatoes. A large tub of them stood on a stool 

 as I entered. " Your anner's wilcome," said father 

 Paddy, " would your anner ate a pratie, if I'd be so 

 bould ? " To this invitation I at once acceded, and 



