human
I never shall desist, he had replied.
gpt
As to that you may take my word.
human
I don't think this kind of thing will go on, he continued, still addressing Frank Jones.
gpt
The people are so fickle that they cannot be constant even to anything evil. It is quite on the cards that Black Tom Daly should next year be the most popular master of hounds in all Ireland, and that Mr. Kit Mooney should not be allowed to show his face within reach of Moytubber Gorse on hunting mornings.
human
They'd have burned the gorse before they have come round to that state of feeling. Look at Raheeny.
gpt
It isn't so easy to destroy anything, said the philosophic Clayton.
human
If the foxes are frightened out of Raheeny or Moytubber, they will go somewhere else. And even if poor Tom Daly were to run away from County Galway, as you're talking of doing, the county would find another master.
gpt
Not like Tom Daly,
human
There are as good fish in the sea as ever were caught. Tom Daly is a first-class man, I admit; and he had no more obedient slave than myself when I used to get out hunting two or three days in the session. But he is a desponding man, and cannot look forward to better times. For myself, I own that my hopes are fixed. Hang Lax, and then the millennium!
gpt
I will quite agree as to the hanging of Lax, said Frank;
human
Oh, certainly! Of course, I'm an Irishman myself, and might have been a Lax instead of a policeman, if chance had got hold of me in time. As it is, I've a sort of feeling that the policeman is going to have the best of it all through Ireland.