Through green glasses

It was once my fortune to meet in a southern Irish town a little old man whose mind was a storehouse of strange legendary lore. He was thoroughly illiterate, but he had contrive...

“Faith! ’tis the thruth I’m telling you,” says Andy. “An’, now,” says he, “I comes to the point where I’ll have to ax your majesty to give me full considheration. I spent the be...

“Wance a year,” says the saint. “You see,” says he, pointin’ over his showldher wud his thumb, “they have all nationalities in here, and they plays the game of aich nation on ai...

“He did,” says King John. “’Tis round his neck I’d like to have had the rope, for ’tis an onaisey time of it he gave meself be rescuin’ my brother. I made sure they’d cooked his...

“Well,” says Mick, “I tould King James I’d start for the quay at wance an’ make things right wud my brother Pat. So I put on my hat an’ I left the house. I walked up the quay a...

Of coorse Saint Pathrick knew for sartin then that the dhragon didn’t recognize him, so he made up his mind to have a bit of a play wud him before banishin’ him intirely.

Mike was sore vexed at the way the Countess was actin’, but he didn’t say much, an’ whenever he felt dhry he used to take a turn outside the walls an’ spend a while in the neare...

So Crummle takes a roll of paper out of his pocket an’ he read out the Riot Act, an’ the moment he came to the last word, the standin’ army sets up a shout an’ rushes down the h...

“’Deed, thin, I’m not,” says Rolly; “an’ if it’s the bacon thrade you mane,” says he, “which I’ve heard tell is the main stay of Ireland, I’m not at all averse to goin’ into the...

The king was mighty proud at the success of his thrainin’, an’ he loaded the pipe wud the dhriest an’ the mildest brand he could lay howld of. Sure enough, Rolly was greatly pla...

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