Now, let me see if you have e'er a finger at all to show; for upon my honorable word they ought to be worn to the stumps long ago.

Well, and how are you all?
But sure I needn't ax.

Faith, you're crushin' the _blanter_* anyhow, and that looks well." * Blantur, a well-known description of oats.

It was so called from having been originally imported from Blantire in Scotland.
"We must live, Barney; 'tis a poor shift we'd make 'idout the praties and the broghan," (meal porridge).
"What news from the big house ?" "News, is it?
Come, Corney, come, girls, bounce; news is it?
O, faitha', thin it's I that has the news that will make you all shake your feet to-night." "Blessed saints, Barney what is it ?" "Bounce, I say, and off wid ye to gather brusna (dried and rotten brambles) for a bonfire in the great town of Rathfillan." "A bonfire, Barney! Arra, why, man alive ?" "Why?
Why, bekaise the masther's stepson and the misthress's own pet has come home to us to set the counthry into a state o' conflagration wid his beauty.

There won't be a whole cap in the barony before this day week.