Brigaded with British regulars, the Princess Pat's were a sort of corps d'élite.

" Pat, pat went the horses' feet on the prairie sod.

Do you think I could look Lorry in the face when he knew that I sat idle while the man that murdered Pat was riding the country free?" "Pat was your friend.

How he and his wife and their last remaining child, a son born to them when Pat was already old, managed thenceforth to eke out a living would have been a marvel to their neighbours, if similar problems of existence had not been so common in the countryside.

And if it were not, Pat was not the man to back down from a bluff.

Our Engineer to my right was about one hundred yards off, and Pat himself on the extreme right, at about the same distance from H. Behind us was the road, and in the rear the long line of nets, with their concealed watchers.

Brian Brennan here says that Pat is afther bein' the death of him.

I then inflicted the sentence which had been pronounced,two pats of the hand, which the girls asked might be soft ones, and sent him to his seat, while I concluded the whole with some appropriate exhortations.

I sometimes think Pat is the worst of all.