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seven o'clock
`` Me ! ha , ha , ha , well , sure enough , Syl , you 're the quarest fellow alive ; why , man , is n't it yourself you have to plaise , not me . '' `` No matther for that , I 'm not goin ' to put my judgment in comparishment wid yours , at any rate ; an ' Paddy M'Gartland himself said , ` Syl , my boy , you know what you 're about ; if this patthern plaises Art Maguire , it 'll plaise anybody ; see what it is , ' says he , ` to have the fine high ould blood in one 's veins . ' Begad he did ; will you come up this evenin ' about seven o'clock , now , like a good fellow , an ' pass your opinion for me ? Divil a dacent stitch I have , an ' I want either it , or another , made up before the ball night . '' * * Country dances , or balls , in which the young men pay from ten to fifteen pence for whiskey `` to trate the ladies . '' We hope they will be abolished .