'll_ tell ye that meself, ye impidint felly! What's
to kape a cuke from lukun' like a lady, or a lady from lukun' like a
cuke? Ah, Mike McIlheny, ye drunken blaggurd, is it _me_ ye're tellin'
that Mary Molloy never put her hands in wather, and kept hilpers to
milk her father's cows! Cows indade! It was wan pig under the bed; and
more shame to them that's ashamed to call it a pig, if ye _are_ my
cousin! _I'm_ the lady the gentleman was lukin' for, and if ye think
I'm not as good as Mary Molloy the best day she ever stipped, I'll
thank ye to tell me who is. Be off wid ye, or I'll say something ye'll
not like to hear!"

McIlheny: "Sure I was jokin', Maggie! I was goun' to tell the
gintleman that if he was lukun' for a cuke, I'd a cousin out of place
that was the best professed cuke in Bahston. And I'm glad he's got ye:
and he's a gintleman every inch, and so's his lady, I dar' say, though
I haven't the pleasure of her acquaintance--"

The Colored Man who calls the Trains: "Cars ready for West Newton,
Auburndale, Riverside, Wellesley, Natick, and South Framingham. Train
for South Framingham. Express to West Newton. Track No. 5."

Mrs. Roberts: "That's our train, Amy' We get off at Auburndale.
Willis, Edward, Maggie--come!" They all rush out, leaving McIlheny
alone.

McIlheny, looking thoughtfully after them: "Sure, I wonder what
Mary'll be wantun' me to ask um next!"

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