poteen

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I have it," says he, slapping his knee; "I'll be sworn that Coo never saw a drop of poteen, as old as he is, and that's the thing to settle him!

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"If they 're cows, begad they must have got at that sixty-three gallons of poteen you talked of; for they're all drunk."

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Give’s a taste of rum, which is the best makeshift for poteen, and I’ll tell ye.

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"Thrue for ye, boy; the sport was soon over—raich me over the bottle," and with that, Miles finished the poteen at a draught, and then lay back against the wall, as if to sleep.

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But nothing's perfect in this world except the wisdom of owls and Congressmen, and Mrs. O'Korrigan's military virtues and wholesome command of her husband had the slight drawback of a constitutional taste for poteen.

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