Father Tom And the Pope, Or a Night in the Vatican
The book Father Tom And the Pope, Or a Night in the Vatican was written by author Maginn, William, 1793-1842 Here you can read free online of Father Tom And the Pope, Or a Night in the Vatican book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Father Tom And the Pope, Or a Night in the Vatican a good or bad book?
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my dear, the very first snuff he got ov it, he cried out, the dear man : " Blessed Vargin, but it has the divine smell ! " and crossed himself and the bottle half-a-dozen times running. " Well, sure enough, it's the blessed liquor now," FATHER TOM AND THE POPE. 19 says his Riv'rence, " and so there can be no harm any way in mixing a dandy of punch ; and," says he, stirring up the materi'ls with hia goolden mud- dler — for everything at the Pope's table, to the very schrew for drawing the corks,... was ov vergin goold — "if I might make bould," says he, "to spake on so deep a subjic afore your Holiness, I think it 'ud considherably facilitate the invistiga* tion ov its chemisthry and phwarmaceutics, if you'd jist thry the laste sup in life ov it inwardly." " Well, then, suppose I do make the same expiii- ment," says the Pope, in a much more condescinding way nor you'd have expected — and wid that he mixes himself a real stiff facer. " Now, your Holiness," says Father Tom, " this bein' the first time you ever dispiused them chym- icals," says he, " I'll just make bould to lay down one rule of orthography," says he, " for conwhound- ing them, secundwm mortem.'''' " What's that ?
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