Gerald Griffin's Works (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1847. Excerpt: ... L their attention--" there is no mistaking that dark and hand-' some face, buried up as it is in the huge oiled penthouse hat, and there is his hjinch-backed_hoatman, Dannx_ Mann, orl Dannv the Jjord, as tS&pEOjSIecall him sinceTusmislbrtune, tending the foresheet in the bow. But that female--there is a I female there, unquestionably, in a blue mantle, with the hood brought low over her eyes, sitting on the ballast. Who can she be?" "Perhags, Danny Mann's coushvCotebreoeBfirty,"aaid, Mrs, Dab rrOr some western dealing woman, who has come up to Limerick to purchase a reinforcement of pins, needles, whiskey, and reading-made-easys, for her village counter, and is getting a free passage home from young Master Hardress." "Like enough, like enough; it is just his way. Hillol the fellow is going to run down that fishing cot, I believe " A hoarse cry of "Bear away --hold up your hand " was heard from the water, and reiterated with the addition of a few expletives, which those who know the energy of a boatman's dialect will understand without our transcribing them here. The pleasure-boat, bowever, heedless of those rough remonstrances, and apparently indisposed to yield any portion of her way, still held her bowsprit close to the wind, and sailed on, paying no more regard to the peril of the plebeian craft, than a French aristocrat of the vielle cour might be supposed to exhibit for that of a sans culottes, about to be trodden down by his leaders in the Rue St. Honore. The fishermen, with many curses, backed water, and put about as rapidly as possible, but without being able to avoid the shock of the Nora Creina, who just touched their stern with sufficient force to make the cot dart forward nearly an oar's length through the water, and to lay the rowers sprawlin...