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 more pasture for her buck goat than her square of fields, and she without a tramp itself to keep in order her place at all.

When you see me contriving in my little gardens, Christy Mahon, you'll swear the Lord God formed me to be living lone, and that there isn’t my match in Mayo for thatching, or mowing, or shearing a sheep.

It's true the Lord formed you to contrive indeed. Doesn't the world know you reared a black ram at your own breast, so that the Lord Bishop of Connaught felt the elements of a Christian, and he eating it after a kidney stew? Doesn’t the world know you've been seen shaving the foxy skipper from France for a threepenny bit and a sop of grass tobacco would wring the liver from a mountain goat you'd meet leaping the hills?

Do you hear her now, young fellow? Do you hear the way she'll be rating at your own self when a week is by?