THE PIG WASN'T AISY.
Itf Charles Leva's O'Donnghui thflra occurs ft remarkably rich .passage illustrating the. relations subsisting between an improving landlord and Art untutored Irish tenant. Dhe agent presents the tenants to the worthy innovator, who inquires into the condition of the grumbling and dissatisfied recipient of his favours. At lengthy Oil a tenant presenting himself whom the agent fails to recognise, the baronet turns to the figure before him, which, with fade and head swollen out of all proportions^ awaits : bis addres9 in sullen silence; I " Who are you, my good man ? What has happened yon?" I " Faix, an' it's well you may ask ? My own mother wouldn't know me this blessed mornin'. 'Tis all your own doin' intoirely." " My doing ?" replied the astonished baronet. " What can I hare to do with the state you are in, my good man ?'* "Yes it is your doin'," answered the proprietor of the swollen head. " 'Tis all your doin', an' ye may well be proud iof it ! { Twas them blessed bees you gey me." We brought the divils into the | house last night, an' where did we put I them but in the pig's corner. Well, after Katty an' the children an' myself was a while in bid, the pig goes rootin' about the house-, an* he wasn't aisy till he hooked his nose in the hive and spilt the j bees out about the flure ; and then, when I got out of bid to let out the pig that was a-roarin' through the house, the bees settled down on me an' began stingin' me ; an' I jumped into bid again wid the whole of them aftbei* me, to Katty an' the children ; an' thin' what wid the bees a-buzzin' an' a-stingin' us under the clothesj out vfe all jumped agin ; an' the divil such a night was ever spint in Ireland as we spint last night, what wid Katty an' the children a-roarin' Jin, a-bawlin', an' the pig tarin' np an' down like madj an^ Katty wid the besom, an' myself wid the frying' pan, flattenin' the bees again the wall till mornin' An' thin the sight we wor in the morin, 1 Begor, it's ashamed of yourself ye ought to be !'*
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Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 7
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372THE PIG WASN'T AISY. Te Aroha News, Volume III, Issue 135, 2 January 1886, Page 7
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