Dear old Mick, with his brogue and his blarney, has won every heart in the regiment, and you may be sure we shall see the whites of the enemy's eyes under him, which we never should have done under that odious Hessian, Oswaldin hospital now, thank Heaventhough some time, when I tell you the story, you will see that in this, as in most other things, Heaven helps those who help themselves.

I have as much on me mind as Biddy McGinniss had on her back when she carried Mick home from the gallows.

foreign body, foreign substance, foreign element; alien, stranger, intruder, interloper, foreigner, novus homo [Lat.], newcomer, immigrant, emigrant; creole, Africander^; outsider; Dago [Slang], wop, mick, polak, greaser, slant, Easterner [U.S.], Dutchman, tenderfoot.

Mick Walker was the name of the oldest; he wore a ragged apron, and a paper cap.

It seemed to me so long, however, since I had been among any companions of my own age, except Mick Walker and Mealy Potatoes, that I felt very strange at first.

"'Shure,' he said, ''tis the bhlood av thim as ould Black Mick 'way back in the ould days kilt in their shlape.

It would require long antiquarian researches to discover the origin and mode of playing many of these pastimes, such as des oes, des trois ânes, des accords bigarrés, du jardin madame, de la fricade, du feiseau, de la mick, and a number of others which are named but not described in the records of the times.

Mick Leamy, sor,' sez I, 'from Misther W. wid the sparks.'

sez he; 'it's Mick Leamy, I du b'lieve!'

Hollams and Wilks each got very wholesome doses of penal servitude, to the intense delight of Mick Leamy.

I tell ye wot, old Duffy has a good bit of money and only two children, Susie and Mick.

Ten days afterwards Caldigate, in the presence both of Mick and Dick, declared his purpose of going down to Sydney.

Mick Maggott lived in such a manner that no one near him would have thought that he knew what whisky meant.

She listened not only with patience, but apparently with the greatest pleasure, to all that he could tell her of Dick Shand, and Mr. Crinkett, and Mick Maggott, arousing herself quite to enthusiasm when he came to the finding of the gold.

Much was said of Mick, and much was said of Dick, both of whom were working 'as steady as rocks.'

After three months of hard work and steady conduct Mick Maggott had broken out and had again taken to drinking champagne out of buckets.

And then Shand would sometimes go into the mud with him; and Shand, when drunk, would be more unmanageable even than Mick.

And this went on till Mick hadkilled himself, and Dick Shand had disappeared.

Such was the history of poor Mick Maggott.

Ah, sir, I wish you could have known poor Mick Maggott.' 'If he would have made holes in my lawn I am glad he did not come home with you.'

Mick and Mack and Mary Jane

Mick and Mack and Mary Jane

The ould men were dreaming of meat to come near them, And the Devil cocked ears at the words for to hear them. 'Twice a year we get meat,' said the toothless oul' men, 'Oh, Lord send the meat won't be too tough again.' To clear away dishes Mick Fogarty goes, May the Devil burn the nails off his toes.

I didn't bother about it particularly, for he'd always been a pretty level-headed old Mick, and I supposed that he'd put the money in pickle and keep right along at his job.

I simply looked at Mm, and said sudden, "Git, you Mick," and he wilted back out of the office just as easy as if he hadn't had ten cents.