Crossword-Solution: BLA 3 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

But what a pleasure it was to lie awake at night and listen to their voices calling the hours! The calls began at the stroke of eleven, and then from beneath the window would come the wonderful long drawling call of _Las on--ce han da--do y se--re--no,_ which means eleven of the clock and all serene, but if clouded the concluding word would be _nu--bla--do,_ and so on, according to the weather.

PAN oedd y ci ryw noson, Yn ceisio crafu’r crochon, ’Roedd Wil o’r Pant, nai Beti Sian, Yn cynnal bla’n ’i gynffon.

Carv._ No liberty at all, my good Gerald--I am always ready to advise--only to-day--certainly, the fair day of Ballynavogue, there are so many calls upon me, both in a public and private capacity, so much business of vital importance! _O’Bla._ (_aside_) Vital importance!--that is his word on all occasions.

But what was I going to say? _O’Bla._ (_aside_) Burn me, if I know; and I pray all the saints you may never recollect.

Gerald O’Blaney, the counsellor, be within? _O’Bla._ (_quick brogue_) Oh, my best friend, Matthew McBride, is it you, dear? Then here’s Gerald O’Blaney, always at your sarvice.