We've a strain of Irish blood in us, Mr. Howard, and I always stand up for the ould counthry.

If ye've no relish for a fortification, in a time of war, ye've only to shoulther yer knapsack, and go out into the open counthry, where ye'll have all to yer own satisfaction.

It's a cursed counthry to live in, Misther Strides, where a young lady of the loveliness and pithiful beauty of Miss Maud can be lost in the woods, as it might be a sheep or a stray baste that was for tasting the neighbour's pastures.

He calls hisself a 'son of the poor'atin's,' and poor 'ating it must have been, in the counthry of his faders, to have produced so lane and skinny a baste as that same.

T'ree cuts wid a knife, half a dozen pokes in the side, and a bullet scraping; the head, makes a man mindful of what has happened; to say nothing of the captain, and Madam Willoughby, and Miss BeulyGod for ever bless and presarve 'em all t'reeand, if there was such a thing as a bit of a church in this counthry, wouldn't I use this gould for masses?dat I would, and let the scalps go to the divil!"

"This woful saison, along wid the low prices and the high rents, houlds out a black and terrible look for the counthry, God help us!" said Sullivan.

"How they hoont Ducks in the ould Counthry."A

" "Where did you come from?" "The ould counthry, ov coorse, sur.

Divil a day would yez kitch me stoppin' in a counthry like this, iny longer thin it would take to git out of it.

o' the counthry, an' that taste was the mark of it.'

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

Well, all the bottom in this counthry is of that same natur'.

He says this counthry's job is jist a-mindin' av her biz, And imparyilism's thrayson, so ut is, so ut is.

One crone raised herself sufficiently to remark that it was a fine thing for the counthry, glory be to God!

They do in the owld counthry.

I've sailed this a way many a time in th' ould counthry.

Thin all nate people in that counthry must stand in great nade of ombrellys.

"Do you call this a counthry?" asked Sweeny, after an awe-stricken silence.

An' it's me opinyin he made this whole counthry for the same rayson.

"It's a big hippycrit av a counthry.

It's a way we have in th' ould counthry.