Have you no valuables of any kind, Jemmy!--ne'er a baste now, or anything that way ?" "Why, there's a young heifer; but I'm strugglin' to keep it to help me in the rent.

I was obliged to sell my pig long ago, for I had no way of feedin' it." "Well, bring me the heifer, Jemmy, an' I won't let the crathurs starve.
We'll see what can be done when it comes here.

An' now, Jemmy, let me ax if you wint to hear mass on last Sunday ?" "Troth I didn't like to go in this trim.

Peggy has a web of frieze half made this good while; it'll be finished some time, I hope." "Ah! Jemmy, Jemmy, it's no wondher the world's the way it is, for indeed there's little thought of God or religion in it.

You passed last Sunday like a haythen, an' now you see how you stand to-day for the same." "You'll let me bring some o' the meal home wid me now," said the man; "the poor cratures tasted hardly anything to-day yet, an' they wor cryin' whin I left home.