"She hadn't a leg to stand upon for the last three hours." "Not a leg to stand upon! Faix, then, and it's she'd have the four good legs if she travelled every inch of the way from Donagh-a-Dee to Ti-vora," to which distance Mr.O'Dwyer specially referred as being supposed to be the longest known in Ireland.
"She may be able to do that; but I'm blessed if she's fit to go to Kanturk and back." "She's done the work, anyhow," said Mr.O'Dwyer, who evidently thought that this last argument was conclusive.
"And a precious time she's been about it.

Why, my goodness, it would have been better for me to have walked it.

As Sir Thomas said to me--" "What! did you see Sir Thomas Fitzgerald ?" Hereupon Aby gave his father a nudge; but the father either did not appreciate the nudge, or did not choose to obey it.
"Yes; I did see him.

Why shouldn't I ?" "Only they do say he's hard to get to speak to now-a-days.

He's not over well, you know, these years back." "Well or ill he'll see me, I take it, when I go that distance to ask him.