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027 - The Pudding Bewitched · Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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Speaker 1: Section twenty six of Varian folk Tales of Irish Peasantry.
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Speaker 1: Irish Peasantry, edited and selected by W. P. Yates, Section
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Speaker 1: twenty six. The Pudding Bewitched. William Carleton Monroe Rafferty was
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Speaker 1: the son daughter I mean of all the Czech Rafferty,
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Speaker 1: who was remarkable for a habit he had of always
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Speaker 1: wearing his hat under his hat. But indeed the same
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Speaker 1: family was a queer one, as everybody knew that was
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Speaker 1: acquainted with them. It was said of them. But whether
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Speaker 1: it was true or not, I won't undertake to say,
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Speaker 1: for fraid I tell a lie that whenever they didn't
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Speaker 1: wear shoes or boots, they always went barefooted. But I
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Speaker 1: heard afterwards that this was disputed. So rather than say anything,
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Speaker 1: to endure their character and let that pass. Now, Old
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Speaker 1: Jack Rafferty had two sons, Patty and Molly had what
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Speaker 1: are you all laughing at? I mean, a son and
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Speaker 1: a daughter. And it was generally believed among the neighbors
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Speaker 1: that they were brother and sister, which you know might
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Speaker 1: be true, it might not, But that's a thing that,
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Speaker 1: with the help of goodness, we have nothing to say
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Speaker 1: to trot. There was many ugly things put out on
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Speaker 1: them that I don't wish to repeat, such as that
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Speaker 1: neither Jack nor his son Patty ever walked a perch
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Speaker 1: without putting one foot afore the other like a salmon.
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Speaker 1: And I know it was whispered about that whenever mon
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Speaker 1: Rose slept she had an out of the way custom
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Speaker 1: of keeping her eyes shut. If she did. However, for
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Speaker 1: that matter, the loss was her own. For sure. We
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Speaker 1: all know that when one comes to shut their eyes,
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Speaker 1: they can't see as far before them as another one.
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Speaker 1: Roe was a fine, young, bouncing girl, large and lavish,
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Speaker 1: with a pretty head of hair on her leg scarlet,
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Speaker 1: that being one of the reasons why she was called
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Speaker 1: row or red. Her arms and cheeks were much the
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Speaker 1: color of the hair, and her saddle nose was the
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Speaker 1: prettiest thing of its kind that ever was on a face.
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Speaker 1: Her fists, for tank goodness, she was well starved. Them too,
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Speaker 1: had a long similarity to two Honkin's turnips written by
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Speaker 1: the Sun and to keep all right and tight. She
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Speaker 1: had a temper as fiery as her head. For indeed,
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Speaker 1: it was well known that all the refertees were warm hearted.
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Speaker 1: How on diver it appears that God gives nothing in vain.
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Speaker 1: And of course the same fists, big and wet as
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Speaker 1: they were, if all that is said about them is true,
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Speaker 1: were not so much given to her for ornament as
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Speaker 1: use at last taking them in connection with her lively temper.
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Speaker 1: We have it upon good authority that there was no
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Speaker 1: danger of their getting blue molded for want of practice.
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Speaker 1: She had a twist two in one of her eyes
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Speaker 1: that was very becoming in its way, and made her
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Speaker 1: poor husband where she got him, take it into his
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Speaker 1: head that she could see around the corner. She found
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Speaker 1: him out in many queer things without doubt. But whether
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Speaker 1: it was owing to that or not, I wouldn't undertake
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Speaker 1: to say, orfraid I tell a lie well begged. Anyhow,
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Speaker 1: it was mon Row that was the Dealcey footnote love
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Speaker 1: and the footnote. It happened that there was innate bagbone
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Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, just as much overburdened with beauty as herself,
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Speaker 1: and he was named Gusty Gilsbie. Gusty, the Lord Gardess,
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Speaker 1: was what they call a black Mouth Prosbyterian and wouldn't
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Speaker 1: keep Christmas Day the blagguard except what they call old style.
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Speaker 1: Gusty was rather good looking when seen in the dark,
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Speaker 1: as well as herself, and indeed it was pretty well
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Speaker 1: known that, according as to talk Wend, it was in
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Speaker 1: nightly meetings that they had an opportunity of becoming detached
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Speaker 1: to one another. The consequence was that in due time
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Speaker 1: both families began to talk very seriously as to what
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Speaker 1: was to be done. Moll's brother, Podigner Refertee, gave Gusty
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Speaker 1: the best of two choices. What they were, it's not
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Speaker 1: worth speaking about, but at any rate, one of them
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Speaker 1: was opposer, and as Gustin knew this man, he soon
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Speaker 1: came to his senses. Accordingly, everything was deranged for their marriage,
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Speaker 1: and it was appointed that they should be spliced by
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Speaker 1: the Reverend Samuel mcshaddle, the Presbyterian parson, on the following Sunday. Now,
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Speaker 1: this was the first marriage that had happened for a
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Speaker 1: long time in the neighborhood between a black Mouth and
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Speaker 1: a Catholic, and of course there was strong objections on
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Speaker 1: both sides against it, and begged only for one thing.
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Speaker 1: It would never attack place at all at any rate fakes.
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Speaker 1: There was one of the bride's uncles, Old Harry Connolly,
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Speaker 1: a ferryman, who could cure all complaints with the secret
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Speaker 1: he had, and as he didn't wish to see his
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Speaker 1: niece married the ponstage fellow, he fought bitterly against the match.
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Speaker 1: All male's friends, however, stood up for the marriage bearing him,
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Speaker 1: and of course the Sunday was appointed as I said
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Speaker 1: that they were to be dovedale together. Well that they
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Speaker 1: arrived and mal as became her went to Mass and
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Speaker 1: gusted to meeting, after which they were to join one
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Speaker 1: another in jack Grafferties, where the priest, father ma Surly,
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Speaker 1: was to sleep up after Mass, to take his dinner
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Speaker 1: with them, and to keep mister Machado, who was to
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Speaker 1: marry them company. Nobody remained at home but all Jack
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Speaker 1: Rafferty and his wife, who stopped dress the dinner for
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Speaker 1: to tell the truth, it was to be a great
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Speaker 1: let out entirely maybe if all was known too that
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Speaker 1: Father Shorely was to give them a cast of his
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Speaker 1: office over and above the minister in regard that male's
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Speaker 1: friends were not together satisfied at the kind of marriage
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Speaker 1: which Micheadle could give them. Lasaro may care about that,
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Speaker 1: splice he or splice there. All I can say is
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Speaker 1: that when missus Rapperty was going to tie up a
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Speaker 1: big bad pudden inan walks Harry Connolly the ferryman in
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Speaker 1: a ridge and shouts out plood and blunderbushes. What are
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Speaker 1: these fear for? Ah? Why Harry? Why? Why? The sun's
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Speaker 1: in the SuDS and the morning the high hurry, there's
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Speaker 1: a clipstick coming in and there you're both as unconcerned
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Speaker 1: as if it was about to rain. Matter. Go out
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Speaker 1: and cross yourself three times in the name of the
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Speaker 1: four mandreu Mervins, whereas Prophecy says, fill the pot eddy
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Speaker 1: supernaculum or blazing stars, a rare spectaculum. Go out, both
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Speaker 1: of you and look at the sun, I say, and
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Speaker 1: you'll see the conditions he's in, Oh, peggard, Sure enough,
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Speaker 1: Jack gave a bounce to the door, and his wife
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Speaker 1: leaped like a two year old till they were bold.
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Speaker 1: Got on a style beside the house to see what
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Speaker 1: was wrong in the sky. Ah, what is it? Jack?
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Speaker 1: Said she. Can you see anything, No, says he, sorry,
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Speaker 1: the fool of my eye. Of anything I can spy
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Speaker 1: bear in the sun himself that's not visible in a
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Speaker 1: guard of the clouds, God guardess. I doubt there's something
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Speaker 1: to happen. If there wasn't, Jack, what would put Harry,
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Speaker 1: that knows so much in the state he's in. I
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Speaker 1: doubt it's this marriage, said Jack. Doing ourselves is not
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Speaker 1: over and above religious for more, to marry a black
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Speaker 1: mouth and only four. But it can't be helped now,
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Speaker 1: though you see not a taste of the sun is
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Speaker 1: willing to show his face upon it. As to that,
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Speaker 1: says the wife, winking with both her eyes. If gust
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Speaker 1: is satisfied it more, it's enough, I know who carried
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Speaker 1: the whip hand anyhow. But in the meantime, let us
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Speaker 1: ask Harry thin what ails the sun? Well? They accordingly
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Speaker 1: went in and put the question to him, Harry, what's
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Speaker 1: wrong a girl? What is it? Now? For if anybody
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Speaker 1: alive knows, tis yourself, said Harry, screwing his mouth with
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Speaker 1: a kind of a trill smile. The sun has a
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Speaker 1: head twist or a colic. But never mind that I
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Speaker 1: told you you'll have a merrier wedding than you think,
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Speaker 1: that's all. And having said this, he put on his
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Speaker 1: head and left the house. Now Harry's answer relieved them
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Speaker 1: very much, and so after calling to him to be
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Speaker 1: back for the dinner, Tack sat down to take a
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Speaker 1: slat of the pipe, and the wife wastes no time
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Speaker 1: in tying up the pudden and putting it in the
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Speaker 1: pot to be boiled. In this way things went on well,
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Speaker 1: not for a while, Jack smoking away and the wife
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Speaker 1: cooking and wrestling at the rate of a hunt. At last, Jack,
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Speaker 1: while sitting, as I said, contentedly at the fire, thought
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Speaker 1: he could perceive an odd dancing kind of motion in
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Speaker 1: the pot that puzzled him a good deal. Katy said
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Speaker 1: he what the dickens is in the pot on the fire?
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Speaker 1: Not a thing but a big pudden? Why do you ask,
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Speaker 1: said she? Why? Said he? If ever a pot, tuck
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Speaker 1: it into its head to test a jig, And this
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Speaker 1: did thunder and sparbles. Look at it pattered. It was
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Speaker 1: three enough. There was the pot bobbing up and down
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Speaker 1: from the side to side, chinging it away as merry
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Speaker 1: as a Greek. And it was quite easy to see
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Speaker 1: that it wasn't the pot itself, but what was inside
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Speaker 1: of it that bought about the hornpipe? Beat a hole
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Speaker 1: on my coat, shouted Jack. There's something alight in it,
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Speaker 1: or it would never cut sick capers. Begora, there is, Jack,
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Speaker 1: something strange entirely has got into it. You're a man alive.
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Speaker 1: What's to be done? Just as he spoke, the pot
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Speaker 1: seemed to cut the buckle in prime style, and after
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Speaker 1: a spring that the shame a danzymashed her off, flew
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Speaker 1: the lid, and out bounced the pudding itself, hopping as
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Speaker 1: nimble as a pea on a drumheat about the floor.
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Speaker 1: Jack blessed himself and Katy crossed herself. Jack shouted, and
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Speaker 1: Katy screamed, in the name of Goodness, keep your distance.
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Speaker 1: No here injured you. The pudding, however, made a set
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Speaker 1: at him, and Jack leaped first on a chair and
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Speaker 1: then on the kitchen table to avoid it. It then
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Speaker 1: dast towards Kitty, who was now repeating her prayers at
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Speaker 1: the top of her voice, while the cutting teeth of
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Speaker 1: a pudding was hopping and jigging it round her. I
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Speaker 1: think it was amused at her distress. If I could
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Speaker 1: get the pitchfork, said Jack. I'd dealt with it like Cox,
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Speaker 1: I'd threw its middle. No, no, shouted Katy, thinking there
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Speaker 1: was a very neat Let us speak it fair. Who
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Speaker 1: knows what harm it might do? Easy now, said she
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Speaker 1: to the pudding. Easy, dear, not harm, honest people that
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Speaker 1: never meant to offend you. It wasn't us know. In short,
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Speaker 1: it was old Harry Connerly that bewitched you. Pursue him
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Speaker 1: if you wish, but spare a woman like me, or
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Speaker 1: it's very dear, I'm not in a condition to be frightened.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes not. The pudding be dead seemed to take her
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Speaker 1: at her word, and danced away from her towards Jack, who,
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Speaker 1: like the wife, believing there was a fair and that
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Speaker 1: speaking if there was the best plan, thought he would
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Speaker 1: give it a soft word as well as her. Please,
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Speaker 1: your honor, said Jack. She only speaks the truth, and
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Speaker 1: upon my voracity, we both feel much obliged to your
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Speaker 1: honor for your quickness. Faith. It's quite clear that you
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Speaker 1: weren't a gentleman. We put in all out you'd act otherwise,
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Speaker 1: Old Harry the rogue is remark he's just gone down
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Speaker 1: the road there and if you go fast, you'll overtake him.
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Speaker 1: Bim song per dancing Meshter did his duty anyhow, Thank
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Speaker 1: your honor, but speed you, and may you never meet
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Speaker 1: with a parson or elder man in your travels. Just
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Speaker 1: as Jack spoke, the pudding appeared to take the hint,
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Speaker 1: for it quietly humped out, and as the house was
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Speaker 1: directly on our roadside, turned down towards the beach, the
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Speaker 1: very way that old Harry went. It was very natural,
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Speaker 1: of course, that Jack and Katy should go out to
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Speaker 1: see how it intended to travel. And as the day
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Speaker 1: was Sunday, it was but natural too that a greater
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Speaker 1: number of people than usual were passing the road. This
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Speaker 1: was a fact, and when Jack and his wife were
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Speaker 1: seen following the pudden, the whole neighborhood was soon up
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Speaker 1: and after it, Jack rafferty, what is it, Katy, elgirl,
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Speaker 1: will you tell us what it means? Why? Replied Katy,
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Speaker 1: it's my big pudden that's bewitched, and it's now hot
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Speaker 1: for suing here she stopped, not wishing to mention her
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Speaker 1: brother's name. Saw one or other that surely put pishaws
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Speaker 1: on it. Footnote put in under fairy influence and the footnote.
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Speaker 1: This was enough. Jack nothing that he had assistance, found
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Speaker 1: his courage coming back to him, so says he to Katy,
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Speaker 1: go home, says he, and lost no time in making
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Speaker 1: another pudden as good. And here's Patty's camel's wife, Bridgide says,
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Speaker 1: she'll let you boil it on her fire as you
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Speaker 1: want our own to dress the rest of the dinner.
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Speaker 1: And Patty himself will lend me a pitchwork for pursuing
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Speaker 1: to the morsel of the same pudding will escape till
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Speaker 1: I light the wind out of it. Now that I've
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Speaker 1: the neighbors to back and support me, says Jack. This
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Speaker 1: was agreed to, and Katy went back to prepare fresh pullion,
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Speaker 1: while Jack and half the town land pursued the other wheat, spades, grapes, pitchforks, sides, flares,
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Speaker 1: and all possible description of instruments on the pooden land. However,
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Speaker 1: at the rate of about six Irish miles an hour,
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Speaker 1: and seek a chase never was seen. Catholics, Protestants and
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Speaker 1: Presbyterians were all after it, armed, as I said, and
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Speaker 1: bad end to the thing, but its own activity could
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Speaker 1: save it. Here it made a hop and the report
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Speaker 1: was made at it. But off it went, and someone
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Speaker 1: as eager to get a slice at it on the
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Speaker 1: other side right got the prod instead of the pudding,
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Speaker 1: big fan parrel. The miller of palable tin got the
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Speaker 1: pup backwards. That brought a hullabaloo out of him, you
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Speaker 1: might hear. At the other end of the parish, one
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Speaker 1: got the slice of a said another wack of a flail,
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Speaker 1: a third rap of spade, that made him look nine
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Speaker 1: ways at once. Where is it going, asked one my
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Speaker 1: life for you. It's on his way to meeting. Three
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Speaker 1: cheers for it. If it turns to control prowd, a
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Speaker 1: solo out of it. If it's a prodestine, shouted the others.
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Speaker 1: If it does to the left, slice it into pancakes.
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Speaker 1: We have no prodestine puddence here begat. By this time
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Speaker 1: the people were on the point of beginning to have
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Speaker 1: a regular fight about it, and very fortunately it took
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Speaker 1: a short turn down a little by lane that led
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Speaker 1: towards the Methodist preaching house, and in an instant all
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Speaker 1: parties were in an uproar against it as a Methodist pudding.
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Speaker 1: Its Wesleyan shouted several voices and by this and by
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Speaker 1: that into a Methodist chapel. It won't put a foot today,
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Speaker 1: or will lose a fall. Let the wind out of it.
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Speaker 1: Come boys with their pitchforks, the devil pursuing to do.
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Speaker 1: One of them, however, ever, could touch the pudding. And
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Speaker 1: just when they thought they headed up against the gable
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Speaker 1: of the Methodist chapel paget, it gave them the slip
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Speaker 1: and hops over to the left claim to the river,
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Speaker 1: and sails away before all their eyes as slight as
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Speaker 1: an eggshell. Now it so happened that a little below
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Speaker 1: this place, the the mine wall of Colonel Bragshaw was
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Speaker 1: built up to the very edge of the river on
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Speaker 1: each side of its fence. And so, finding there was
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Speaker 1: a stop put to their pursuit of it, they went
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Speaker 1: home again, every man, woman and child of them, puzzled
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Speaker 1: to think what the pudding was at all, what it meant,
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Speaker 1: or where it was going. Had Jack Refferty and his
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Speaker 1: wife been willing to let out the opinion they held
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Speaker 1: about Harry Connolly bewitching it, there is no doubt of it,
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Speaker 1: but poor Harry might be badly treated by the crowd.
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Speaker 1: When their blood was up. They had sense enough haund
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Speaker 1: Diver to keep death to themselves, for Harry, being an
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Speaker 1: old bachelor, was a kind friend to their refutees. So
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Speaker 1: of course there was all kinds of talk about it,
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Speaker 1: some guessing this and some guessing that, one party saying
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Speaker 1: the pudding was off their side, another party denying it
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Speaker 1: and insisting it belongs to them, and so on. In
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Speaker 1: the meantime, Kathy, refertee for a great dinner, might come
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Speaker 1: short and home and made another pudden, much about the
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Speaker 1: same size as the one that had escaped, and bringing
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Speaker 1: it over to their next neighbor, Patty's Canons. It was
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Speaker 1: put into a pot and placed on the fire to boil,
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Speaker 1: hoping that it might be done in time, especially as
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Speaker 1: they were to have the Minster, who loved the warm
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Speaker 1: slice of a good pudding as well as ever a
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Speaker 1: gentleman in Europe. Anyhow that they passed, Moll and Gusty
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Speaker 1: were made men and wife, and no two could be
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Speaker 1: more loving. Their friends that had been asked to the
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Speaker 1: wedding were slaughtering about in pleasant little groups till dinner time,
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Speaker 1: chatting and nothing, but above all things struggling to account
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Speaker 1: for the figures of the pudding. For, to tell the truth,
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Speaker 1: its adventures had now gone through the whole parish well
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Speaker 1: at any rate. Dinner time was drawing near, and paddy'scannon
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Speaker 1: was sitting comfortably with his wife at the fire, the
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Speaker 1: pudding boiling before their eyes, when in walks Harry Connolly
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Speaker 1: in a flutter, shouting blood and blunderbushes. What are you
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Speaker 1: here for? Ah? Why Harry? Why a big says missus Conlan.
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Speaker 1: Why said Harry? The suns in the SuDS and the
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Speaker 1: moon in the high hurricks. Here's a clipstick coming down,
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Speaker 1: and there you sit, as unconcerned as if it was
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Speaker 1: about time to rain. Maither, go out, both of you
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Speaker 1: and look at the sun, I say, and yell see
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Speaker 1: the condition with him? Oh aye, But Harry, what's that
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Speaker 1: rolled up in the tail of your coth moore footnote
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Speaker 1: Irish Kattamore and the footnote big boat out with yeas
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Speaker 1: said Harry, and pray against the clipstick. The sky's falling bagged.
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Speaker 1: It was hard to say whether Paddy or the wife
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Speaker 1: got out first. They were so much alarmed by Harry's wild,
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Speaker 1: thin face and piercing eyes. So out he went to
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Speaker 1: see what was wonderfully in the sky, and keep looking
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Speaker 1: and looking in every direction, but not the thing was
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Speaker 1: to be seen where in the sun shine down with
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Speaker 1: great good humor, and not a single cloud in the sky.
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Speaker 1: Paddy and the wife now came in, laughing to scold Harry,
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Speaker 1: who no doubt was a great wagon in his way
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Speaker 1: when he wished mousha bets crunching Harry, they had time
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Speaker 1: to see no more hallen diver, for as they were
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Speaker 1: going into the door they met him coming out of
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Speaker 1: it with a rig of smoke out of his tail,
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Speaker 1: like a thank king. Harry shouted, bridget I saw to glory.
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Speaker 1: But the tale of your cut more is a fire.
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Speaker 1: You'll be burned. Don't you see the smoke that's out
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Speaker 1: of it? Crush yourselves three times, said Harry, without stopping
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Speaker 1: or even looking behind him. For as the prophecy says,
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Speaker 1: feel the pot eddie, they could hear no more, for
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Speaker 1: Harry appeared to feel like a man that carries something
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Speaker 1: a great deal hotter than he wished, as anyone might
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Speaker 1: see by the faftliness of his emotions and the queer
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Speaker 1: faces he was forced to make as he went along.
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Speaker 1: What the dickens is he carrying in the skirts of
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Speaker 1: his big coat, asked Paddy, I saw to happiness. But
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Speaker 1: maybe he has told the pudden, said Bridget, for it's
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Speaker 1: not that many a strange things he does. They immediately
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Speaker 1: examined the pot, but found that the pudden was there
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Speaker 1: as safe as two pans, and this puzzled them the
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Speaker 1: more to think what it was he could be caring
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Speaker 1: about with him in the manner he did. But little
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Speaker 1: they knew what he had done while they were sky gazing. Well, anyhow,
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Speaker 1: the day passed and the dinner was ready, and no
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Speaker 1: doubt but a fine gathering there was to partake of it.
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Speaker 1: The Presbyterian minister at the Methodist preacher, a devilish stretcher
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Speaker 1: of an appetach, he had himself on their way to
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Speaker 1: Jeff Efferty's, and as he knew he could take the
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Speaker 1: liberty while he insisted on his dining with him, For
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Speaker 1: after all, begad in them times, the clergy of all
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Speaker 1: descriptions lived upon the best footing among one another, not
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Speaker 1: all as one as now, But no matter. Well. They
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Speaker 1: had nearly finished the dinner, and jack Afferty himself asked
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Speaker 1: Katy for the pudding, But just as she spoke and
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Speaker 1: it came as big as a mess pot. Gentlemen, said he,
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Speaker 1: I hope none of you will refuse tating a bit
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Speaker 1: of Katy's pudding. I don't mean the dancing one that
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Speaker 1: talk to its travel today, but the good solid fellow
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Speaker 1: that she made sense to be sure we won't, replied
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Speaker 1: the priest. So Jack, put a trifle on them, three
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Speaker 1: plates at your right hand, and set them over there
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Speaker 1: to the clergy. And maybe, he said, laughing, for he
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Speaker 1: was through good humored man. Maybe Jack, we won't set
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Speaker 1: you a propular example with a hardened half your reference,
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Speaker 1: and gentleman in draw is not a bad example. Every
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Speaker 1: any of you set us at the likes or ever
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Speaker 1: we'll set us and go bail. And sure, I only
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Speaker 1: wish it was kind of fear I had for you
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Speaker 1: other humble people, gentlemen. And so you can't expect to
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Speaker 1: meet here what you would in higher places. Better a
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Speaker 1: male of herbs, said the man of this preacher, where
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Speaker 1: pieces he had time to go no further, however, for
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Speaker 1: much to his amazement, the priest and the minister started
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Speaker 1: up from the table. Jis as he was going to
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Speaker 1: swallow the first spoonful of the pudding and before you
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Speaker 1: could say, Jack Robinson starting away at a lively cheek
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Speaker 1: down the floor. At this moment a neighbor's son came
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Speaker 1: running in and told them that the person was coming
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Speaker 1: to see the new married couple enrich them all happiness.
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Speaker 1: And the words were scarcely out of his mouth when
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Speaker 1: he made his appearance. I think he knew not when
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Speaker 1: he saw the minister putting it away at the rate
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Speaker 1: of a wedding. He had very little time, however, to think,
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Speaker 1: for before he could sit down upstairs, the man to
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Speaker 1: this picture, and grabbing his two fists in his sides,
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Speaker 1: shines in in great style along with him. Check refertly,
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Speaker 1: says he. And by the way, Jack was his tenant.
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Speaker 1: The Dickens does all this mean? Says I'm amazed that
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Speaker 1: not a particle on me can tell you? Says Jack,
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Speaker 1: what will your reference? Just take a morsel of pudding,
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Speaker 1: merely that a young couple may boast that you ate
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Speaker 1: at their wedding. For sure, if you wouldn't, who would, well,
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Speaker 1: says he, to gratify them. I will so just a morsel.
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Speaker 1: But Jack, this bates banger, says he again, putting the
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Speaker 1: spoonful of putting into his mouth. Has there been drink here?
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Speaker 1: Oh the iful a spook, says Jack. For although there's
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Speaker 1: an dio in the house, faith, it appears that a
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Speaker 1: gentleman wouldn't wait for it unless they take it elsewhere.
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Speaker 1: I can make nothing of this. It has scarcely spoken
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Speaker 1: when the person who was an active man cut a
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Speaker 1: keeper or yard high, and before you could bless yourself,
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Speaker 1: that three clergy were heard at work, passing as if
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Speaker 1: it's for a wager pig gott. I would be impossible
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Speaker 1: for me to tell you the state the whole meeting
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Speaker 1: was in when they seen this. Some were horse with laughing,
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Speaker 1: some turned up their eyes with wonder, and I thought
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Speaker 1: the man, and others thought they had turned up their
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Speaker 1: little fingers a trifle to them too often pickocks the disappointed.
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Speaker 1: Shame said one to see three black mouth clergy in
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Speaker 1: such a state at this early hour under nons sober
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Speaker 1: them all, says others. Why one would think they're bewitched?
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Speaker 1: Holy Moses, look at the keeper the Methodist cuts. As
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Speaker 1: for the rector, who would think he could handle his
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Speaker 1: feet as such a bait Piti and bedad. He cuts
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Speaker 1: the buckle and does Delipery step quill to Patty Harrigan
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Speaker 1: doesn't master himself, and see that sees to the morsel
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Speaker 1: of the person that's not had a piece upon the trencher.
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Speaker 1: And it of a Sunday too, hero gentlemen that finds
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Speaker 1: the news after all, wish ah more power than is
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Speaker 1: the store's own. Fun they had, and no wonder but
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Speaker 1: judge of what they felt when all at once they
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Speaker 1: saw old Jack Rafferty himself bouncing in amongst them and
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Speaker 1: footing it away like the best of them Peter, and
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Speaker 1: no plague could come up to it, and nothing could
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Speaker 1: be heard but laughing, shouts of encouragement and clapping of
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Speaker 1: hands like mad. Now the Minie Jack Rafferty left the
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Speaker 1: chair where he had been carving the pudding. Old Harry
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Speaker 1: commonly comes over and claps himself down in his place
24:53
Speaker 1: in order to send it round, of course, and he
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Speaker 1: was constantly seated when who should make his appearance, But
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Speaker 1: Barny had to go the piper Barney, by the way,
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Speaker 1: had been set for early in the day, but being
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Speaker 1: from home when the message for him went, he couldn't
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Speaker 1: come any sooner. Magora said, Barney, you're earlier to work, gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: But what does this mean? But don't many care. He
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Speaker 1: shan't want the music while there's a blast in the
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Speaker 1: pipes anyhow, so saying he gave them giple go, and
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Speaker 1: after to kiss my lady in his best style. In
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Speaker 1: the meantime, the fun went on thickened her threefold. Friend
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Speaker 1: must be remembered that Harry, the old knave was at
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Speaker 1: the pudding, and maybe he didn't start about it double
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Speaker 1: quick time too. The first he helped was the bride,
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Speaker 1: and before you could say chopstick, she was at it
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Speaker 1: hard and fast, before the Methodist preacher who gave a
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Speaker 1: jolly spring before her that threw them into convulsions. And
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Speaker 1: liked this and made up his mind soon to find
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Speaker 1: partners for the rest. So he accordingly sent a pudding
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Speaker 1: about like lightning, and to make a long story short,
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Speaker 1: turning the piper and himself. There wasn't a pair of
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Speaker 1: heels in the house, but was as busy as the dancing,
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Speaker 1: as if their lives depended on it. Barney says, Harry
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Speaker 1: just takes a morsel of this pulling, they'll be such
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Speaker 1: a body of a pudding ever you eat here, you sir,
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Speaker 1: treystening of it. It's beautiful to be sure, I will,
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Speaker 1: says Barney. I'm not the boy to refuse a good thing.
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Speaker 1: But Harry, be quick, for you know my hands is engaged,
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Speaker 1: and it would be a thousand pities not to keep
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Speaker 1: them in music. And they so well inclive, thank you, Harry.
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Speaker 1: But at that is a famous pudding. But blood and turnips?
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Speaker 1: What's this for the world was scarcely out of his
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Speaker 1: mouth when he bounced up pipes and all and dashed
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Speaker 1: into the middle of the party. Who row your souls,
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Speaker 1: let us make a night of it. The belly BeO
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Speaker 1: teen boys, forever go it your reverence, turn your partner,
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Speaker 1: Heugh and towminister good, well done again, wish who row?
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Speaker 1: Here's for bell Bontein and the sky over it? Not
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Speaker 1: luck to the siege, as said, everyone was seen together
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Speaker 1: in the world or will again. I suppose the worst, however,
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Speaker 1: was in come. Yet, for just as they were in
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Speaker 1: the very hidden fury of the tests, what do you
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Speaker 1: think comes hopping in among them? But another pudding as
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Speaker 1: nimble and merry as the first. That was enough They
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Speaker 1: all had heard of the ministers among the rest, and
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Speaker 1: most of them had seen the other pudding and knew
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Speaker 1: that there must be a fairy need. Sure enough, well
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Speaker 1: as I said, and it comes to the thick of them.
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Speaker 1: But the very appearance of it was enough. Of the
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Speaker 1: three clergy tests, and of the whole Wagner's danced after them,
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Speaker 1: everyone making the best of their way home, but not
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Speaker 1: as all of them able to break out of the
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Speaker 1: step if they were to be hanged for it. But
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Speaker 1: it wouldn't have loft in you to see the parson
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Speaker 1: dancing down the road on his way home, and the
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Speaker 1: minister and Methodist preacher cutting the buckle as they went
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Speaker 1: along enough opposite direction to make short work of it.
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Speaker 1: They all danced home at last, with scarce a proof
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Speaker 1: of Windham. The bright and bright room danced away to bed.
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Speaker 1: And now, boys, car let us dance the horror lay
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Speaker 1: in the barn. I know, my Jessie, boys, before we go,
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Speaker 1: And in order that I may make everything clean, I
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Speaker 1: had as good to tell you that Harry, in crossing
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Speaker 1: the bridge of bell Builting, a couple of miles below
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Speaker 1: square Brackshaws the mice wall, saw the pudding floating down
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Speaker 1: the river. The truth is he was waiting for it.
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Speaker 1: But with this as it may, he took it out,
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Speaker 1: for the water had made it as clean as a
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Speaker 1: new pin, and tucking it up in the tail of
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Speaker 1: his big coat, contrived, as you all guess, I suppose
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Speaker 1: to change it to all Patty's standing and his wife
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Speaker 1: were examining the sky, and for the other he contrived
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Speaker 1: to be witched in the same manner by getting a
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Speaker 1: faerry to go into it. For indeed, it was pretty
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Speaker 1: well known that the same Harry was hand a glove
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Speaker 1: with the good people. Others will tell you that it
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Speaker 1: was half pound of quicksilver he put into it, but
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Speaker 1: that doesn't stand to reason at any Great boys, I've
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Speaker 1: told you the adventures of the mad Pudding of Vale Bulletin,
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Speaker 1: but I don't wish to tell you many other things
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Speaker 1: about it that happened for trade, I feel all lie. Footnote.
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Speaker 1: Someone assist that a fairy man or fairywoman has the
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Speaker 1: power to bewitched a pudding by putting a fair into it,
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Speaker 1: whilst others maintain that a competant portion of quicksilver will
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Speaker 1: make it best over half the parish and the footnote
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Speaker 1: and of section twenty six