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1
Unknown Author (1824)
Courtship; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Killarney; Dublin; Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
Speakers: All , Jenny
Jenny ran up the gravel walk, exclaiming -- "Oh, mistress! Oh, master! If there bean't be a fine gentleman axing for yese ! But, see! -- sure he's after me , coming in at the garden gate with a little angel in his arms!"
(Vol. 1,p. 3)
2
Unknown Author (1824)
Courtship; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Killarney; Dublin; Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
"You shall hear. -- 'What's all this for?' asked he. God bless your honour! it's for Patrick's liberty; he is as likely a youth as ever you see; but he went mad for the love of me! and then, when his sinses were gone, he did the foolishest thing in the varsal world -- deserted his old father and mother, and went forsooth a sodgering ! But what call can your honour or the king have to him now, when he has lost his sinses ? "
"Did the poor man really go mad?" inquired Louisa.
"Mad, indeed! But to make my long story short," continued Judy, " they made great divarsion at my saying Pat was mad; and seemed to think me mighty cute ; and they said I was a beautiful crature -- that was their word; and that I might pass for a lady any day, with that proud toss of my head, which was mighty quality-like! That was when I hit the wallet a slap in the face for squeezing my hand."
(Vol. 1,p. 156-157)
3
Unknown Author (1824)
Courtship; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Killarney; Dublin; Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
Extract #1 dialect features: Grammar, Metalanguage, Orthographical Contraction
Speakers: All , Judith Donahoe
On their entrance, they saw a beautiful girl, dressed in a very handsome pelise and boneet, the latter, rather fancifully put on the back of her head, so as to show off a redundance of fine hair.
In a very strong Kerry accent , she asked them what their business was; and added -- " I dosent recollect ever seeing you before, -- yese are not acquainted with me?"
(Vol. 3,p. 268)
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Unknown Author (1824)
Courtship; Domestic; Inheritance / Identity; Manners / Society; Killarney; Dublin; Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
Louisa did not awake the next morning, until Judy (Mrs. Kelly's maid), burst into the room, with a large bundle, which she flung down. -- "So, Miss Lowsy ! a pretty time in the day for you to lie soaking ! Get up! and see what your good mother has sent you: -- as fine a suit of clothes as ever my two eyes did see! and indeed I never seed the like, except with the players last Spring-tide. -- Oh, dear!" exclaimed she, opening the parcel, and holding up the gown, "how it rustles and shines!"
"What am I to do, Judy, with such old-fashioned clothes? -- Does my dear mother think I can wear them?"
" Here's a bit of a note I put in my bosom; it will tell you all."
(Vol. 1,p. 151-152)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
Speakers: All , Jacky, interlocutor
On his entering the hotel, Jacky! the chambermaid exclaimed, "Sir, you've gotten a blue ee ." * "I have got two," replied he; "but I met with a blackguard of your country, and he has run against me, and just left his mark." " It's awful," cried Jacky. " Aye ," replied our young friend, "and I have got my pantaloons torn besides." " Eh! mercy! weel, but," added Jacky, "it might ha been war (worse) , for I can mend them for you." So saying, our youth went to bed, and I saw nothing of him until he appeared at dinner. He told us, laughing, that Jacky had mended his breeks , as she called them .
* The Scotch call a black eye a blue eye .
(Vol. 1,p. 119-120)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Speakers: All , Archy, Allan
But unceremonious Archy, and conscientious Allan, oppose the thing. Archy brutally informs him that he does na ken him; that he may be as muckle o' a lord, as she is an honorable miss; that naething but the siller doon would satisfee the creditors; and that even then, as it is a criminal information which is lodged against her, he must bring her before the magistrates to answer to the charge: besides, adds brutal Archy, a' the quality of Embry is just affronted by her.
Allan, with a mild and sly look, and an inclination to mercy whenever interest did not most particularly stand in the way, urged the propriety of sifting the plot to the bottom; of finding out how far the mischief went; of consulting her other creditors, who had not, like Potifer, the Druggist, in George Street, taken out a fugitive writ; "and," added he, "it would be dishonorable in me to allow that gentleman, supposing him to be a lord, to marry he does na ken wha ; it wud be but discreet to ken wha the leddy really is; and perhaps, at the winding up, things may na be sae bad as they look the noo . "
There was a good deal of wisdom and circumspection in these observations, and they acted as a powerful refrigerent on Lord Stone's flame.
Allan's advice was taken, and the lady was borne away seemingly lifeless, uttering in broken accents that she was ruined; but that she feared not the minutest investigation of her family and conduct; and that, if she had been indiscreet she was not criminal. "I dare to say sae ," said mild Allan, taking a pinch of snuff; " an gin your story be true, the gentleman will may be marry ye after a ." Lord S. swore that he would; whilst Archy asked my lord if he wud na treat him to a dram; and advised him no to marry sic a ----.
Miss S. was allowed to lay down for a few hours, whilst the limbs of the law, or rather of the devil (for these are the lowest, blighted, and blasted branches of that learned profession), ate and drank heartily at Lord Stone's expense, and inflamed the reckoning as much as possible.
The lady was now torn from his arms, and boxed up in a chaise with mild, silver-tongued Allan and a concurrent, as most likely to use her well. The rest of the banditti were paid and dispersed; whilst my lord, against whom no writ was issued, suffered Archy to ride in his carriage, in order to keep the bear in good humour: and now he was completely tamed, and as obsequious as a slave. Upon receiving a bit of the flimsy in his pooch , he promised no to interfere with the puir divil of a lassie , and to hide himsel gaing through the toon , that my lord might no be affronted by being thought to be taen up; "though," continued he, "I hae had the best in the laund in my custody."
On the road he entertained the peer with a' the titled folk, knights, baronets, and honorable misters, whom he had had in his grip, as well as about street rows and wild students, and wilder limmers , and how he had to arrest the leddies twa or three times every week, and how stupid idiots of credulous men aye answered for them and took them out, and how my lord ought to beware of bad hooses ,--although, to be sure , he kent ane or twa discreet places where person and property were safe, and where you might leave gold untold. He kent lucky sic a ane , wha wad na hae a dishonorable thing done in her hoose for a' the warld . She was a bony bit creatury when she was a lassie , and he kent her then, and had to put her in prison for a quarrel and faight wi another lassie ; but she was turned quite douce and discreet, and respectable noo . There was na a mair decenter hoose-hadder in the toon , nor wha paid her cess and taxes mair regularly than her; and she might hae been married upon a minister at ae time, but she kent better sense ; it was onely her siller that the chil wanted. What's the use o' marrying, except it be to better ane's sel .
(Vol. 3,p. 10-17)
7
Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
Speakers: All , Archy, Allan
But unceremonious Archy, and conscientious Allan, oppose the thing. Archy brutally informs him that he does na ken him; that he may be as muckle o' a lord, as she is an honorable miss; that naething but the siller doon would satisfee the creditors; and that even then, as it is a criminal information which is lodged against her, he must bring her before the magistrates to answer to the charge: besides, adds brutal Archy, a' the quality of Embry is just affronted by her.
Allan, with a mild and sly look, and an inclination to mercy whenever interest did not most particularly stand in the way, urged the propriety of sifting the plot to the bottom; of finding out how far the mischief went; of consulting her other creditors, who had not, like Potifer, the Druggist, in George Street, taken out a fugitive writ; "and," added he, "it would be dishonorable in me to allow that gentleman, supposing him to be a lord, to marry he does na ken wha ; it wud be but discreet to ken wha the leddy really is; and perhaps, at the winding up, things may na be sae bad as they look the noo . "
There was a good deal of wisdom and circumspection in these observations, and they acted as a powerful refrigerent on Lord Stone's flame.
Allan's advice was taken, and the lady was borne away seemingly lifeless, uttering in broken accents that she was ruined; but that she feared not the minutest investigation of her family and conduct; and that, if she had been indiscreet she was not criminal. "I dare to say sae ," said mild Allan, taking a pinch of snuff; " an gin your story be true, the gentleman will may be marry ye after a ." Lord S. swore that he would; whilst Archy asked my lord if he wud na treat him to a dram; and advised him no to marry sic a ----.
Miss S. was allowed to lay down for a few hours, whilst the limbs of the law, or rather of the devil (for these are the lowest, blighted, and blasted branches of that learned profession), ate and drank heartily at Lord Stone's expense, and inflamed the reckoning as much as possible.
The lady was now torn from his arms, and boxed up in a chaise with mild, silver-tongued Allan and a concurrent, as most likely to use her well. The rest of the banditti were paid and dispersed; whilst my lord, against whom no writ was issued, suffered Archy to ride in his carriage, in order to keep the bear in good humour: and now he was completely tamed, and as obsequious as a slave. Upon receiving a bit of the flimsy in his pooch , he promised no to interfere with the puir divil of a lassie , and to hide himsel gaing through the toon , that my lord might no be affronted by being thought to be taen up; "though," continued he, "I hae had the best in the laund in my custody."
On the road he entertained the peer with a' the titled folk, knights, baronets, and honorable misters, whom he had had in his grip, as well as about street rows and wild students, and wilder limmers , and how he had to arrest the leddies twa or three times every week, and how stupid idiots of credulous men aye answered for them and took them out, and how my lord ought to beware of bad hooses ,--although, to be sure , he kent ane or twa discreet places where person and property were safe, and where you might leave gold untold. He kent lucky sic a ane , wha wad na hae a dishonorable thing done in her hoose for a' the warld . She was a bony bit creatury when she was a lassie , and he kent her then, and had to put her in prison for a quarrel and faight wi another lassie ; but she was turned quite douce and discreet, and respectable noo . There was na a mair decenter hoose-hadder in the toon , nor wha paid her cess and taxes mair regularly than her; and she might hae been married upon a minister at ae time, but she kent better sense ; it was onely her siller that the chil wanted. What's the use o' marrying, except it be to better ane's sel .
(Vol. 3,p. 10-17)
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Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
"There could na be too great a punishment for her" said Baillie Crockery. "She juist deserved to be haung-ed," (laying great stress on the ed ) observed Baillie Candles. "She shud be whip- ed through the toon naked" cried Baillie Blueruin, "for he wud like to hae a peep." "No, that would be im-more-al, " cried Baillie Snuffy the haberdasher. "The limmer , I hae nae patience wi' her, for thrusting hersel amongst honest men's wives and daughters," exclaimed Baillie Grocery. In short, it was "Tot homines tot sententiae."
At length, Lord Stone was examined in her behalf. "Is he really a lord?" said the senior baillie. "Aye, I believe sae ," replied a tailor baillie. "Let us treat him like a nobleman wi' a' distinction," exclaims the junior baillie. "He's vara rich, an pays like a prince," whispers Archy in the clerk's ear. "Let us offer his lordship a seat," suggests one. "Let us kiss his haund as a mark o' oor respeck ," says another. " Hoot man," says a third, "that wad only be askin an honor o' his lordship; it wud be far mair becomin o' the cooncil wi' a' humility to kiss his--his--his foot; or some ither less dignifeed place."
(Vol. 3,p. 30-32)
9
Unknown Author (1820)
Anecdotal; Political; Satirical; Travel; Scotland; Edinburgh;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
"There could na be too great a punishment for her" said Baillie Crockery. "She juist deserved to be haung-ed," (laying great stress on the ed ) observed Baillie Candles. "She shud be whip- ed through the toon naked" cried Baillie Blueruin, "for he wud like to hae a peep." "No, that would be im-more-al, " cried Baillie Snuffy the haberdasher. "The limmer , I hae nae patience wi' her, for thrusting hersel amongst honest men's wives and daughters," exclaimed Baillie Grocery. In short, it was "Tot homines tot sententiae."
At length, Lord Stone was examined in her behalf. "Is he really a lord?" said the senior baillie. "Aye, I believe sae ," replied a tailor baillie. "Let us treat him like a nobleman wi' a' distinction," exclaims the junior baillie. "He's vara rich, an pays like a prince," whispers Archy in the clerk's ear. "Let us offer his lordship a seat," suggests one. "Let us kiss his haund as a mark o' oor respeck ," says another. " Hoot man," says a third, "that wad only be askin an honor o' his lordship; it wud be far mair becomin o' the cooncil wi' a' humility to kiss his--his--his foot; or some ither less dignifeed place."
(Vol. 3,p. 30-32)
10
Unknown Author (1828)
Courtship; Didactic / Moralising; Satirical; Two unspecified villages on the coast and the interior of Ireland;
Dialect Speakers
2. interlocutor
"It was a great mercy Tom," said he, "that you were so early upon the strand to day, otherwise the poor men might have perished."
"With God's help your honor," replied Tom, "let me lose what I may, I'll never see a christian lost, when I can do him sarvice ."
" Aye , and that's the reason you're as you are," said his wife, speaking from the chimney corner with an inch of pipe in her mouth. "If your heart was not so tinder , you'd be better in the world; see Paddy Rourke there beyant , bekase he's not so foolish, how snug and warm he is -- but you -- you'll never be worth this scutty pipe in my mouth -- that's except ye take my biddin ."
" Hould your tongue," replied Tom, "I often tould you his money and value would go a grey gate , ill got, ill gone, it's better to be poor and have a clear conscience, I think."
" And sure ," answered the wife, "what you get at the shore needn't trouble your conscience, have'nt you as good a right to it as another, but it's no use talking to ye ."
"No use at all," said Tom.
"I am surprised Molly," remarked Frederick, "that you urge your husband to do any act his conscience tells him is not right, and which, by what I can understand, is contrary to the laws of God and man. "
"But sure Sir," replied she, " it's no sin for a man to take care of his family, and that's all I want Tom to do, when a ship is wracked he has as good a right to get his share of what's goin' as another."
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