THE PIG WASN'T AISY.
Id Charles Lever's " O'Donoghue" there occurs a remarkably rich passage ~ illustrating the relations subsisting be- . tween an improving landlord and an untutored Irish tenant. The agent presents the tenants to the worthy innorator, '. who inquires info'the condition of the grumbling and dissatisfied recipients of his favors.At length; oq a tenant presenting himself, whom the agents fail to recognise, the baronet tarns to the figure before him,' which, with face and head swollen out of all proportions, awaits his address in sullen silence. ''Who are you, mygoodman? What has happened •to you P " " Faix;an' it's well you may ask I My own mother wouldn't know me this blessed morning. 'Tis all your own doin' intoirely." "My doing ? " replied the astonished; baronet. " What can I have to do with the state you are in, my. good man?" •' Yes, it is your doin't V , answered the proprietor of, the sivoHea haad. " Tis all your doinV and ye may well be proud of it! 'Twas them blessed bees you gey me. We brought the divils into the house last night, an* where did we put them but in the pig's corner. Well, after Katty an' the ohilder an' myself was awhile in bid, the pig goes rootin' about the house, and he wasn't aisy fciU he hooked his nose in the hire and spilt the hees out about the flure ; and. then, when I gotout of bed to let out the pig that was a-roaring through the house, the bees settled down on me, an' began stingin* me 5 land I jumped into bid again, wid the whole of them after me, to • Katty an' the childer; an' thin, what wid the bees a-buxain', a»stingin' us under the clothes, out we all jumped agin; an* the divil such "a night was ever spint inIreland as we spint last night, what wid Katty and the childer a-roariu' an' abaliin', an' the pig tarin' up aa' down like mad, an' Katty wid the broom an' myself wid the fryin' pan flattening the beea against the wall till mornin' 1 An' thin the sight we wor in the mornin' 2 Bagor, it's ashamed of yourself ye ought to be I"
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4647, 26 November 1883, Page 2
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367THE PIG WASN'T AISY. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4647, 26 November 1883, Page 2
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