"Dar," said the domineering conductor; "dar, dat will do; put da box down
dar. Now, Missis, look here, jist give dat chap a shillin."
"A shilling! What for?"
"Cos he bring up dar plunder from de bay."
"Why didn't you bring it yourself?"
"Look here. Somehow I rader guess I should ha let dar box fall and
smashiated de contents, so I jist give dat white trash de job jest to let
de poor crittur arn a shillin."
Remonstrance was vain, so the money was paid; the lady declaring, for the
future, should he think proper to employ a deputy, it must be at his own
expense. The above term "white trash" is the one commonly employed to
express their supreme contempt for the "low Irish wulgar set."
Their dissensions among themselves are irresistibly comic. Threatening
each other in the most outrageous manner; pouring out invectives,
anathemas, and denunciations of the most deadly nature; but nine times in
ten letting the strife end without a blow; affording in their quarrels an
apt illustration of
"A tale full of sound and fury,
Told by an idiot, signifying nothing."
Suppose an affront, fancied or real, put by one on another, the common
commencement of ireful expostulations generally runs as follows:--
"Look here! you d--m black nigger; what you do dat for, Sar?"
"Hoo you call black, Sar? D--m, as white as you, Sar; any day, Sar.
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