"No kirridge, but an auld gig! There's not much quality about thim two.

I wouldn't be here working for the likes o' thim, if it was not for me wish to oblige Miss Panney, poor old woman as she's gittin' to be." Mike shrewdly believed that it was due to Miss Panney's knowledge of some of Molly's misdeeds, and not to any desire to please the old lady, that the commands of the latter were law to the Irishwoman, but he would not say so.
"Kerridge or no kerridge," said he, "they're good 'nough quality for me, and I reckon I knows what quality is.

They hain't got much money, that's sure, but there's lots of quality that ain't got money; and he's got sense, and that's better than money.

When he fust come here, I jes' goes to him, and ses I, 'How's you goin' to run this farm, sir,--ramshackle or reg'lar ?' He looked at me kinder bothered, and then I 'splained.

'Well,' said he, 'reg'lar will cost more money than I've got, and I reckon we'll have to run it ramshackle.' That's what we did, and we're gittin' along fust rate.