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d daycrement I mane to take the liberty of producing in the same mixed quantity," says he, follying his Holiness's epistolical example. "By all that's good," says the Pope, "that's the best stuff I ever tasted; you call it a mixed quantity, but I say it's prime." "Since it's ov the first ordher, then," says his Riv'rence, "we'll have the less deffeequilty in reducing it to a simple equation." "You'll have no fractions at my side, anyhow," says the Pope. "Faix, I'm afeared," says he, "it's only too asy ov solution our sum is like to be." "Never fear for that," says his Riv'rence, "I've a good stock of surds here in the bottle; for I tell you it will take us a long time to exthract the root ov it, at the rate we're going on." "What makes you call the blessed quart an irrational quantity?" says the Pope. "Becase it's too much for one, and too little for two," says his Riv'rence. "Clear it ov its coefficient, and we'll thry," says the Pope. "Hand me over the exponent, then," says his Riv'rence. "What's that?" says the Pope. "The shcrew, to be sure," says his Riv'rence. "What for?" says the Pope. "To dhraw the cork," says his Riv'rence. "Sure the cork's dhrew," says the Pope. "But the sperits can't get out on account of the accidents that's stuck in the neck ov the bottle," says his Riv'rence. "Accident ought to be passable to sperit," says the Pope, "and that makes me suspect that the reality ov the cork's in it afther all." "That's a barony-masia," says his Riv'rence, "and I'm not bound to answer it. But the fact is, that it's the accidents ov the sperits too that's in it, and the reality's passed out through the cortical spacies as you say; for, you may have observed, we've both been in real good sperits ever since the cork was dhrawn, and were else would the real sperits come from if they wouldn't come out ov the bottle?" "Well, then," says the Pope, "since we've got the reality, there's no use troubling ourselves wid the accidents." "Oh, begad," says his Riv'rence, "the accidents is very essential too; for a man may be in the best ov good sperits, as far as his immaterial part goes, and yet need the accidental qualities ov good liquor to hunt the sinsible thirst out ov him." So he dhraws the cork in earnest, and sets about brewing the other skillet ov _scaltheen_; but, faix, he had to get up the ingredients this time by the hands ov ould Molly; though devil a taste ov her little
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