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Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life, The two young offenders. (search)
amusing himself in this way for a while, he would tell them, It is true I did come from Ireland; but, to confess the truth, I went there first. Once, when he saw two Irishmen fighting, he seized one of them by the arm, and said, I'm from ould Ireland. If thou must fight, I'm the man for thee. Thou hadst better let that poor fellow alone. I'm a dale stouter than he is; and sure it would be braver to fight me. The man thus accosted looked at him with surprise, for an instant, then burst ou Ye may jist go round by the ould road. Och! said Friend Hopper, and is this the way I'm trated by my coontryman? I'm from Ireland meself; and sure I did'nt expect to be trated so by my coontrymen in a strange coontry. And are ye from ould Ireland? inquired they. Indade I am, he replied. And what part may ye be from? said they. From Mount Mellick, Queen's County, rejoined he; and he began to talk familiarly about the priest and the doctor there, till he got the laborers into a