The Purcell Papers Volume III. (e-könyv)

      Being a Ninth Extract from the Legacy of the late Francis      Purcell, P.P. of Drumcoolagh.             Jim Sulivan was a dacent, honest boy as youd find in the seven parishes, an he was a beautiful singer, an an illegant dancer intirely, an a mighty plisant boy in himself; but he had the divils bad luck, for he married for love, an av coorse he niver had an asy minute afther.        Nell Gorman was the girl he fancied, an a beautiful slip of a girl she was, jist twinty to the minute when he married her. She was as round an as complate in all her shapes as a firkin, youd think, an her two cheeks was as fat an as red, it id open your heart to look at them.        But beauty is not the thing all through, an as beautiful as she was she had the divils tongue, an the divils timper, an the divils behaviour all out; an it was impossible for him to be in the house with her for while youd count tin without havin an argymint, an as sure as she riz an argymint with him shed hit him a wipe iv a skillet or whatever lay next to her hand.        Well, this wasnt at all plasin to Jim Sulivan you may be sure, an there was scarce a week that his head wasnt plasthered up, or his back bint double, or his nose swelled as big as a pittaty, with the vilence iv her timper, an his heart was scalded everlastinly with her tongue; so he had no pace or quietness in body or soul at all at all, with the way she was goin an.