I was thinkin'"leaning her arms affably on the half-door"any ould things, ye know, that wouldn't be worth yer while to bring along wid yous 'ud come in very handy for me down below.

That's the ould boy that's going to hang you.

I'm a regular ould gomeril.

No budgett to bee com by; my ould mayster, Hee stands on consciens to deliver it To the trew owner, but I thinke in consciens To cheate mee and to keepe it to him selfe; Which hee shall never doo, to prevent which I'l openly proclayme it.

So if ye weren't goin' to take your big ould pot away wid ye, ma'am, I thought I'd just mention it.

"Ah! then," said he, "gintlemin and ancient ould saints as you are, don't kill the father of a large small family, who never did hurt to you or yours.

He's a cute ould schemer, Tim is, though.

"It's a horrible ould story.

He can neither read nor write, but he can recollect 'thuck ould tree,' and can depose to a fact worth perhaps hundreds of pounds.

'Twas an ould wine o' the counthry, an' there's niver been the match of it before or since.

C ould angel's voice, or poet's lays, A ttune my votive song to praise R esistless then I'd touch the lyre, O r chant her praise, whom all admire.

And the Clancys is as good as the Rorkes, an' an oulder family, though we are down in the world, along wid bad luck an' misfortun'.