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014 - The Piper and the Puca - Daniel O'Rourke · Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

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Speaker 1: Section thirteen of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
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Speaker 1: Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry, edited and selected by W. B. Yates.
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Speaker 1: Section thirteen. The Piper and the Puca Douglas Hyde translated
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Speaker 1: literally from the Irish of de laa Seglikcha. In the
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Speaker 1: old times, there was a half fool living in Dunmore,
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Speaker 1: in the County Galway, and although he was excessively fond
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Speaker 1: of music, he was unable to learn more than one tune,
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Speaker 1: and that was the Black Rogue. He used to get
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Speaker 1: a good deal of money from the gentlemen, for they
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Speaker 1: used to get sport out of him. One night, the
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Speaker 1: piper was coming home from a house where there had
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Speaker 1: been a dance, and he half drunk. When he came
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Speaker 1: to a bridge that was up by his mother's house.
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Speaker 1: He squeezed the pipes on and began playing the Black Rogue.
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Speaker 1: The puca came behind him and flung him up on
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Speaker 1: his own back. There were the long horns of the puka,
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Speaker 1: and the piper got a good grip of them, and
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Speaker 1: then he said, destruction on you, you nasty beast. Let
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Speaker 1: me home. I have a tenpenny piece in my pocket
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Speaker 1: for my mother and she wants snuff. Never mind your mother,
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Speaker 1: said the puka. But keep your hold. If you fall,
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Speaker 1: you will break your neck and your pipes. Then the
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Speaker 1: pukah said to him, play up for me the chan
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Speaker 1: van Vocht. I don't know it, said the piper. Never
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Speaker 1: mind whether you do or don't, said the puka. Play up,
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Speaker 1: and I'll make you know. The piper put wind in
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Speaker 1: his bag, and he played such music as made himself wonder.
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Speaker 1: Upon my word, you're a fine music master, says the piper. Then,
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Speaker 1: but tell me where you're for bringing me. There's a
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Speaker 1: great feast in the house of the Banshee on the
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Speaker 1: top of Kragpatrick to night, said the Puka, And I'm
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Speaker 1: for bringing you there to play music. And take my word,
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Speaker 1: you'll get the price for your trouble. By my word,
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Speaker 1: you'll save me a journey, then, says the piper. For
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Speaker 1: father William put a journey to Croakpatrick on me because
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Speaker 1: I stole the white gander from him last martinmus The
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Speaker 1: Puka rushed him across hills and bogs in rough places,
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Speaker 1: till he brought him to the top of Krowgpatrick. Then
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Speaker 1: the pukah struck three blows with his foot, and a
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Speaker 1: great door opened, and they passed in together into a
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Speaker 1: fine room. The piper saw a golden table in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the room, and hundreds of old women sitting
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Speaker 1: around about it. The old women rose up and said,
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Speaker 1: a hundred thousand welcomes to you, you Puca of November.
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Speaker 1: Who is this you have with you? The best piper
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Speaker 1: in Ireland, says the Puka. One of the old women
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Speaker 1: struck a blow on the ground, and a door opened
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Speaker 1: in the side of the wall. And what should the
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Speaker 1: piper see coming out but the white gander, which he
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Speaker 1: had stolen from father William by my conscience, then said
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Speaker 1: the piper, myself and my mother ate every taste of
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Speaker 1: that gander, only one wing, and I gave that to Moiroua,
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Speaker 1: and it's she told the priest, I stole his gander.
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Speaker 1: The gander cleaned the table and carried it away, and
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Speaker 1: the pukah said, play up music for these ladies. The
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Speaker 1: piper played up, and the old woman began dancing, and
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Speaker 1: they were dancing till they were tired. Then the pukah
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Speaker 1: said to pay the piper, and every old woman drew
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Speaker 1: out a gold piece and gave it to him by
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Speaker 1: the tooth of Patrick said he, I'm as rich as
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Speaker 1: the son of a lord. Come with me, says the Puka,
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Speaker 1: and I'll bring you home. They went out then, and
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Speaker 1: just as he was going to ride on the puka,
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Speaker 1: the gander came up to him and gave him a
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Speaker 1: new set of pipes. The Puka was not long until
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Speaker 1: he brought him to Dunmore, and he threw the piper
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Speaker 1: off at the little bridge, and then he told him
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Speaker 1: to go home, and says to him, you have two
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Speaker 1: things now that you never had before. You have sense
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Speaker 1: and music. The piper went home and he knocked at
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Speaker 1: his mother's door, saying, let me in. I'm as rich
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Speaker 1: as a lord, and i'm the best piper in Ireland.
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Speaker 1: You're drunk, said the mother. No, indeed, says the piper,
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Speaker 1: I haven't drunk a drop. The mother let him in
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Speaker 1: and he gave her the gold pieces. And wait now,
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Speaker 1: says he, till you hear the music i'll play. He
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Speaker 1: buckled on the pipes, but instead of music, there came
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Speaker 1: a sound as if all the geese and ganders in
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Speaker 1: Ireland were screeching together. He wakened the neighbors and they
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Speaker 1: were all mocking him until he put on the old pipes,
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Speaker 1: and then he played melodious music for them, and after
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Speaker 1: that he told them all he had gone through that night.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, when his mother went to look at
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Speaker 1: the gold pieces, there was nothing there but the leaves
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Speaker 1: of a plant. The piper went to the priest and
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Speaker 1: told him his story, but the priest would not believe
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Speaker 1: a word from him until he put the pipes on him.
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Speaker 1: And then the screeching of the ganders and geese began.
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Speaker 1: Leave my sight, you thief, says the priest. But nothing
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Speaker 1: would do the piper till he would put the old
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Speaker 1: pipes on him. To show the priest that his story
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Speaker 1: was true, he buckled on the old pipes and he
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Speaker 1: played melodious music. And from that day till the day
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Speaker 1: of his death, there was never a piper in the
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Speaker 1: county Galway was as good as he was. Daniel O'Rourke
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Speaker 1: t Crofton Crooker. People may have heard of the renowned
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Speaker 1: adventures of Daniel O'Rourke. But how few are there who
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Speaker 1: know that the cause of all his perils above and
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Speaker 1: below was neither more nor less than his having slipped
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Speaker 1: under the walls of the Pucah's Tower. I knew the
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Speaker 1: man well. He lived at the bottom of Hungry Hill,
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Speaker 1: just that the right hand side of the road as
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Speaker 1: you go towards Bantry. An old man was he at
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Speaker 1: the time he told me the story, with gray hair
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Speaker 1: and a red nose. And it was on the twenty
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Speaker 1: fifth of June eighteen thirteen that I heard it from
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Speaker 1: his own lips, as he sat smoking his pipe under
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Speaker 1: the old poplar tree on as fine an evening as
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Speaker 1: ever shown from the sky. I was going to visit
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Speaker 1: the caves in Dursey Island, having spent the morning at Glengariffe,
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Speaker 1: I am often axed to tell Sir, said he so
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Speaker 1: that this is not the first time the master's son,
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Speaker 1: you see, had come from beyond foreign parts in France
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Speaker 1: and Spain, as young gentlemen used to go before Bonaparte
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Speaker 1: or any such was heard of. And sure enough there
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Speaker 1: was a dinner given to all the people on the ground,
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Speaker 1: gentle and simple, high and low, rich and poor. The
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Speaker 1: old gentlemen were the gentleman after all, saving your honor's presents.
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Speaker 1: They'd swear at a body a little, to be sure,
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Speaker 1: and maybe give one cut of a whip now and then.
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Speaker 1: But we were no losers by it in the end.
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Speaker 1: And they were so easy and civil, and kept such
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Speaker 1: rattling houses and thousands of welcomes that there was no
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Speaker 1: grinding for rent. And there was hardly a tenant on
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Speaker 1: the estate that did not taste of his landlord's bounty,
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Speaker 1: often and often in a year. But now it's another thing,
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Speaker 1: no matter for that, sir, for i'd better be telling
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Speaker 1: you my story. Well, we had everything of the best,
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Speaker 1: and plenty of it, and we ate and we drank,
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Speaker 1: and we danced, and the young master, by the same token,
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Speaker 1: danced with Peggy Berry from the Boherene. A lovely young
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Speaker 1: couple they were, though they are both low enough now
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Speaker 1: to make a long story short. I got as a
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Speaker 1: body may say, the same thing as tipsy, almost, for
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Speaker 1: I can't remember ever at all. No ways, how it
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Speaker 1: was I left the place. Only I did leave it,
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Speaker 1: that's certain. Well, I thought for all that in myself,
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Speaker 1: I'd just stepped to Molly Cronhand's the fairy woman, to
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Speaker 1: speak a word about the bracket heifer that was bewitched.
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Speaker 1: And so as I was crossing the stepping stones of
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Speaker 1: the ford of Ballyashanov, and was looking up at the
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Speaker 1: stars and blessing myself for why it was, lady day,
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Speaker 1: I missed my foot and sows I fell into the water,
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Speaker 1: death alive, thought I I'll be drowned now. However, I
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Speaker 1: began swimming, swimming, swimming away for the dear life, till
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Speaker 1: at last I got ashore somehow or other, But never
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Speaker 1: the one of me can tell. How upon a dissolate island,
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Speaker 1: I wandered and wandered about there, without knowing where I wandered,
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Speaker 1: until at last I got into a big bog. The
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Speaker 1: moon was shining as bright as day or your fair
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Speaker 1: lady's eyes, sir, with your pardon for mentioning her. And
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Speaker 1: I looked east and west, and north and south and
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Speaker 1: every way, and nothing did I see but bog bog bog.
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Speaker 1: I could never find out how I got into it,
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Speaker 1: and my heart grew cold with fear. For sure and
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Speaker 1: certain I was that it would be my barren place.
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Speaker 1: So I sat down upon a stone, which, as good
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Speaker 1: luck would have it, was close by me, and I
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Speaker 1: began to scratch my head and sing the Ouligan, when
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden the moon grew black, and I
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Speaker 1: looked up and saw something for all the world as
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Speaker 1: if it was moving down between me and it, and
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Speaker 1: I could not tell what it was. Down it came
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Speaker 1: with a pounce and looked at me full in the face.
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Speaker 1: And what was it? But an eagle, as fine a
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Speaker 1: one as ever flew from the Kingdom of Carry. So
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Speaker 1: he looked at me in the face and says he
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Speaker 1: to me, Daniel O'Rourke says he, how do you do
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Speaker 1: very well? I thank you, sir, says I, I hope
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Speaker 1: you're well, wondering out of my senses all the time,
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Speaker 1: how an eagle came to speak like a Christian? What
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Speaker 1: brings you here, Dan says he Nothing at all, Sir,
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Speaker 1: says I. Only I wish I was safe home again.
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Speaker 1: Is it out of the island you want to go,
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Speaker 1: Dan says he. Tis, Sir, says I, So I up
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Speaker 1: and told him how I had taken a drop too
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Speaker 1: much and fell into the water, how I swam to
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Speaker 1: the island, and how I got into the bog and
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Speaker 1: did not know my way out of it, dan, says he,
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Speaker 1: after a minute's thought. Though it is very improper for
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Speaker 1: you to get drunk on lady day. Yet, as you
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Speaker 1: are a decent sober man who tends mass well and
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Speaker 1: never flings stones at me or mine, nor cries out
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Speaker 1: after us in the fields, my life for yours, says he.
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Speaker 1: So get up on my back and grip me well,
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Speaker 1: for fear you'd fall off, and I'll fly you out
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Speaker 1: of the bog. I am afraid, says I, your honor's
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Speaker 1: making game of me, for whoever heard of riding a
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Speaker 1: horseback on an eagle before? Upon the honor of a gentleman,
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Speaker 1: says he, putting his right foot on his breast. I
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Speaker 1: am quite in earnest, and so now either take my
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Speaker 1: offer or starve in the bog. Besides, I see that
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Speaker 1: your weight is sinking the stone. It was true enough,
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Speaker 1: as he said, for I found the stone every minute
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Speaker 1: going from under me. I had no choice, so thinks
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Speaker 1: I to myself, faint heart never won fair, lady, and
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Speaker 1: this is fair pursuadance. I thank your honor, says I,
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Speaker 1: for the loan of your civility, and I'll take your
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Speaker 1: kind offer. I therefore mounted upon the back of the
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Speaker 1: eagle and held him tight enough by the throat, and
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Speaker 1: up he flew in the air like a lark. Little
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Speaker 1: I knew the trick he was going to serve me. Up, Up, up,
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Speaker 1: God knows how far up he flew. Why, then, said
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Speaker 1: I to him, thinking he did not know the right
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Speaker 1: road home, very civilly, because why I was in his
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Speaker 1: power entirely, sir, says I please your honors glory, and
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Speaker 1: with humble submission to your better judgment, if you'd fly
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Speaker 1: down a bit, you're now just over my cabin and
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Speaker 1: I could be put down there and many thanks to
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Speaker 1: your worship. Ah ah Dan said he. Do you think
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Speaker 1: me a fool? Look down in the next field, and
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Speaker 1: don't you see two men and a gun? By my word,
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Speaker 1: it would be no joke to be shot this way,
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Speaker 1: to oblige a drunken black guard that I picked up
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Speaker 1: off of a cold stone in a bog bother, you,
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Speaker 1: said I to myself, But I did not speak out,
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Speaker 1: for where was the use? Well, sir? Up he kept flying, flying,
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Speaker 1: and I asking him every minute to fly down, and
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Speaker 1: all to no use. Where in the world are you going, sir,
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Speaker 1: says I to him, hold your tongue, Dan says he.
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Speaker 1: Mind your own business, and don't be interfering with the
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Speaker 1: business of other people. Faith, this is my business, I think,
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Speaker 1: says I. Be quiet, Dan says he, so, I said
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Speaker 1: no more. At last, where should we come to but
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Speaker 1: to the moon itself? Now you can't see it from this,
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Speaker 1: but there is, or there was in my time, a
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Speaker 1: reaping hook sticking out of the side of the moon
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Speaker 1: this way, drawing the figure thus on the ground with
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Speaker 1: the end of his stick, Dan said the eagle, I'm
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Speaker 1: tired with this long fly. I had no notion twas
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Speaker 1: so far, And my lord sir said I, who in
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Speaker 1: the world axed you to fly so far? Was it? I?
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Speaker 1: Did not? I beg and pray and beseech you to
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Speaker 1: stop half an hour ago. There's no use talking, Dan
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Speaker 1: said he. I'm tired bad enough, So you must get
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Speaker 1: off and sit down on the moon until I rest myself.
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Speaker 1: Is it sit down on the moon? Said I? Is
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Speaker 1: it upon that little round thing? Then? Why then? Sure
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Speaker 1: I'd fall off in a minute and be kilt and
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Speaker 1: spilt and smashed all to bits. You are a vile deceiver,
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Speaker 1: so you are not at all, Dan said he. You
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Speaker 1: can catch fast hold of the reaping hook that's sticking
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Speaker 1: out of the side of the moon, and twill keep
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Speaker 1: you up. I won't, then, said I maybe not, said
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Speaker 1: he quite quiet. If you don't, my man, I shall
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Speaker 1: just give you a shake and one slap of my
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Speaker 1: wing and send you down to the ground, where every
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Speaker 1: bone in your body will be smashed as small as
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Speaker 1: a drop of dew on a cabbage leaf in the morning.
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Speaker 1: Why then, I'm in a fine way, said I to myself,
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Speaker 1: ever to have come along with the likes of you,
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Speaker 1: and so giving him a hearty curse in Irish, for
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Speaker 1: fear he'd know what I said. I got off his
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Speaker 1: back with a heavy heart, took hold of the reaping hook,
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Speaker 1: and sat down upon the moon and a mighty cold
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Speaker 1: seed it was. I can tell you that when he
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Speaker 1: had me there fairly landed, he turned about on me
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Speaker 1: and said good morning to you. Daniel O'Rourke said he,
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Speaker 1: I think I've nicked you fairly now. You robbed my
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Speaker 1: nest last year. Twas true enough for him, but how
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Speaker 1: he found it out is hard to say. And in
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Speaker 1: return you are freely welcome to cool your heels dangling
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Speaker 1: upon the moon like a cock throw? Is that all?
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Speaker 1: And is this the way you leave me? You brute?
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Speaker 1: You said I, you ugly unnatural bast And is that's
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Speaker 1: the way you serve me? At last? Bad luck to
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Speaker 1: yourself with your hooked nose, and to all your breed
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Speaker 1: you blackered twas all no matter of use. He spread
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Speaker 1: out his great big wings, burst out a laughing and
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Speaker 1: flew away like lightning. I bald after him to stop,
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Speaker 1: But I might have called and bald forever without his
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Speaker 1: minding me away he went, and I never saw him
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Speaker 1: from that day to this sorrow fly away with him,
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Speaker 1: you may be sure. I was in a disconsolate condition
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Speaker 1: and kept roaring out for the bare grief, when all
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Speaker 1: at once a door opened right in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the moon, creaking on its hinges, as if it had
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Speaker 1: not been opened for a month before. I suppose they
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Speaker 1: never thought of greasing him, And out there walks who
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Speaker 1: do you think but the man in the moon himself.
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Speaker 1: I knew him by his bush. Good morrow to you,
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Speaker 1: Daniel O'Rourke, said he. How do you do very well?
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Speaker 1: Thank your honor, said I. I hope your honor's well.
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Speaker 1: What brought you here, Dan said he. So I told
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Speaker 1: him how I was a little overtaken in liquor at
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Speaker 1: the master's, and how I was cast on a dissolute island,
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Speaker 1: and how I lost my way in the bog, and
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Speaker 1: how the thief of an eagle promised to fly me
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Speaker 1: out of it, and how instead of that he had
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Speaker 1: fled me up to the moon, Dan, said the man
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Speaker 1: in the moon, taking a pinch of snuff when I
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Speaker 1: was done. You must not stay here, indeed, sir, says
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Speaker 1: I tis much against my will. I'm here at all,
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Speaker 1: But how am I to get back? That's your business,
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Speaker 1: said he. Dan, mine is to tell you that here
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Speaker 1: you must not stay, So be off in less than
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Speaker 1: no time. I'm doing no harm, says I, only holding
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Speaker 1: on hard by the reaping hook lest I fall off.
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Speaker 1: That's what you must not do, Dan says. He pray.
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Speaker 1: Sir says I may I ask how many you are
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Speaker 1: in family that you would not give a poor traveler lodging.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure tis not so often your troubled with strangers
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Speaker 1: coming to see you, For tis a long way. I'm
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Speaker 1: by myself, Dan says he. But you'd better let go
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Speaker 1: the reaping hook faith, and with your leave, says I.
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Speaker 1: I'll not let go the grip. And the more you
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Speaker 1: bids me, the more I won't let go. So will
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Speaker 1: you had better, Dan, says he again. Why then, my
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Speaker 1: little fellow, says I, taking the whole weight of him
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Speaker 1: with my eye from head to foot. There are two
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Speaker 1: words to that bargain, and I'll not budge, but you
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Speaker 1: may if you like. You'll see how that is to be,
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Speaker 1: says he, And back he went, giving the door such
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Speaker 1: a great bang after him, for it was plain he
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Speaker 1: was huffed that I thought the moon and all would
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Speaker 1: fall down with it. Well, I was preparing myself to
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Speaker 1: try strength with him, when back again he comes, with
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Speaker 1: the kitchen cleaver in his hand, and without saying a word,
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Speaker 1: he gives two bangs to the handle of the reaping
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Speaker 1: hook that was keeping me up. And whap it came
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Speaker 1: into good morning to you, Dan, says the spiteful little
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Speaker 1: old blackhard when he saw me cleanly falling down with
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Speaker 1: a bit of the handle in my hand. I thank
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Speaker 1: you for your visit and fair weather after you, Daniel,
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Speaker 1: I had not time to make any answer to him,
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Speaker 1: for I was tumbling over and over, rolling and rolling
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Speaker 1: at the rate of a fox hunt. God help me,
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Speaker 1: says I, but this is a pretty pickle for a
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Speaker 1: decent man to be seen in at this time of night.
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Speaker 1: I am now sold fairly. The word was not out
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Speaker 1: of my mouth when whiz what should fly by close
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Speaker 1: to my ear? But a flock of wild geese all
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Speaker 1: the way from my own bog of Balishenov. Else, how
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Speaker 1: should they know me? The old gander, who was their general,
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Speaker 1: turning about his head, cried out to me, is that
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Speaker 1: you dan? The same? Said I not a bit daunted
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Speaker 1: now at what he said, for I was by this
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Speaker 1: time used to all kinds of bedevilment, and besides I
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Speaker 1: knew him of old. Good morrow to you, says he.
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Speaker 1: Daniel O'Rourke, How are you in health this morning? Very well, sir,
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Speaker 1: says I. I thank you kindly drawing my breath, for
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Speaker 1: I was mightily in want of some I hope your
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Speaker 1: honor is the same. I think tis falling you are, Daniel,
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Speaker 1: says he. You may say that, sir, says I, And
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Speaker 1: where are you going? All the way? So fast, said
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Speaker 1: the king, And so I told him how I had
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Speaker 1: taken the drop, and how I came on the island,
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Speaker 1: and how I lost my way in the bog, and
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Speaker 1: how the thief of an eagle flew me up to
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Speaker 1: the moon, and how the man in the moon turned
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Speaker 1: me out. Dan said he, I'll save you. Put out
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Speaker 1: your hand and catch me by the leg, and I'll
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Speaker 1: fly you home. Sweet is your hand in a pitcher
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Speaker 1: of honey, my jewel, says I. Though all the time
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Speaker 1: I thought within myself that I don't much trust you.
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Speaker 1: But there was no help. So I caught the gander
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Speaker 1: by the leg, and away I and the other geese
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Speaker 1: flew after him as fast as hops. We flew, and
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Speaker 1: we flew, and we flew until we came right over
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Speaker 1: the wide ocean. I knew it well, for I saw
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Speaker 1: cape clear to my right hand, sticking up out of
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Speaker 1: the water. Ah, my lord, said I to the goose,
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Speaker 1: for I thought it best to keep a civil tongue
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Speaker 1: in my head. Anyway, fly to land, if you please.
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Speaker 1: It is impossible, you see, Dan said he for a while,
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Speaker 1: because you see, we are going to Arabia. To Arabia,
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Speaker 1: said I. That's surely some place in foreign parts, far away, Oh,
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Speaker 1: mister goose, Why then to be sure. I'm a man
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Speaker 1: to be pitied among you. Whist wist, you fool, said
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Speaker 1: he hold your tongue. I tell you, Arabia is a
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Speaker 1: very decent sort of place, as like West Carberry, as
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Speaker 1: one egg is like another, only there is a little
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Speaker 1: more sand there. Just as we were talking, a ship
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Speaker 1: hove in sight, scudding so beautiful before the wind. Ah.
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Speaker 1: Then Sir said, I will you drop me on the
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Speaker 1: ship if you please. We are not fair over it,
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Speaker 1: said he. If I dropped you now, you would splash
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Speaker 1: into the sea. I would not, says I. I know
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Speaker 1: better than that, for it is just clean under us.
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Speaker 1: So let me drop now at once. If you must,
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Speaker 1: you must, said he. There take your own way, and
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Speaker 1: he opened his claw, and faith he was right. Sure enough,
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Speaker 1: I came down, plump into the very bottom of the
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Speaker 1: salt sea. Down to the very bottom I went, and
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Speaker 1: I gave myself up then forever, when a whale walked
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Speaker 1: up to me, scratching himself after his night's sleep, and
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Speaker 1: looked me fully in the face, And never the word
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Speaker 1: did he say, but lifting up his tail, he splashed
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Speaker 1: me all over again with the cold salt water, till
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Speaker 1: there wasn't a dry stitch upon my whole carcass. And
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Speaker 1: I heard somebody saying, twas a voice I knew too,
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Speaker 1: Get up, you drunk, and brute off o that. And
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Speaker 1: with that I woke up, and there was Judy with
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Speaker 1: a tubful of water, which she was splashing all over me,
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Speaker 1: for rest her soul. Though she was a good wife,
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Speaker 1: she never could bear to see me in drink, and
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Speaker 1: had a bitter hand of her own. Get up, said
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Speaker 1: she again. And of all places in the Paris, would
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Speaker 1: no place Servir turned to lie down upon, but under
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Speaker 1: the old walls of Carrigapucha, uneasy resting. I'm sure you
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Speaker 1: had of it, and sure enough I had, for I
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Speaker 1: was fairly bothered out of my senses, with eagles and
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Speaker 1: men of the moons, and flying ganders and whales driving
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Speaker 1: me through bogs and up to the moon and down
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Speaker 1: to the bottom of the green ocean. If I was
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Speaker 1: in drink ten times over, long would it be before
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Speaker 1: I'd lie down in the same spot again? I know that.
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