They're thracin' themselves to some DURPHY, O'NEILL, or McCANN, or O'TAAFFE, I'll go bail the bowld conqueror MURPHY 'S too owld to be caught wid sich chaff.

An Irishman at our side, who had been puzzling some time to comprehend the problem thus submitted to him, finally broke out: "An' may I ax ye, misther, to be koind enough to exshplain phat in the wurruld that owld roosther's doin'?" pointing to the figure of the kneeling monarch.

I was standin' by owld Foley's gate, whin I heard the cry of the hounds coming across the tail of the bog, an' there they wor, my dear, spread out like the tail of a paycock, an' the finest dog fox ye ever seen a sailin' ahead of thim up the boreen, and right across the churchyard.

I know not what to terme them, but for thee, Owld fornicator, that jad'st mee at home And yet can fend

I'll have ye, owld haythen, yit, or me name isn't Teddy McFadden, from Limerick downs.

"Git out, ye owld sarpent!"

He suddenly looked out into the darkness which shrouded the still watchful beast from sight, and exclaimed: "Ye owld shivering assassin, out there, did yees ever hear till how Tom O'Reilly got his wife?

She was about the same age as Kitty, and the owld woman took her out of kindness and brought them up together.

It wasn't often that he could saa her, and when he did; she was mighty offish, and was sure to have the owld woman present, like a dumb-waiter, to be sure.

The owld fellow must have been expecting him, for before he could knock, he opened the door and let him in.

The owld praist wasn't so bad after all.

"Begorrah, but yees are a fine owld gintleman, if yer face does look like a paint-jug, and ye isn't able to lay claim to one-half the beauty meself possesses.

If it wasn't for this owld whisky-jug I wouldn't be l'aving her," said Teddy, indignantly.

I allers used to stay at home when he's gone, for fear that owld thaif of a hunter might break into the pantry and shtail our winesthat is, if we had any, which we haven't.

"Who knows but Master Harvey has gone to the village, and Miss Cora stands in the door this minute, 'xpacting this owld spalpaan?" "No go till arternoon," said the savage.

"My dog is good to catch a hen, A duck and goose is vood vor men; And where good company I spy, Oh, thether gwoes my dog and I. "Droo aal the world, owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes scramblin' vur and nigh, We bides at whoam, my dog and I.

"My dog is good to catch a hen, A duck and goose is vood vor men; And where good company I spy, Oh, thether gwoes my dog and I. "Droo aal the world, owld Gaarge would bwoast, Commend me to merry owld England mwoast; While vools gwoes scramblin' vur and nigh, We bides at whoam, my dog and I.

Why did you marry me?" "Did I want owld Jack Dwyer to murther me as soon as the people's backs was turned?" said Matty.

"Ah! then, it bates the owld country intirely, it does," replied O'Riley, wiping the perspiration from his forehead.

My old gran'mother used to tell me, whin I refused to go to the school that was kip be an owld man as tuck his fees out in murphies and potheen,says she, 'Ah! ye spalpeen, ye'll niver be cliverer nor the pig, ye won't.'

He had plenty of murphies and also a pigthe latter "bein'" he said, "so like the wan that belonged to his owld grandmother, that he thought it must be the same wan corned alive agin, or its darter.

Well, the poor man come in afther a bit,' says the Gout, 'an' I slipped in through a crack in his owld wore-out brogue, an' into his toe.

Well,' says the Gout, 'if the fellow didn't go an' put his fut, an' me in it, into an owld rusty bucket full of pitaty-wather!

They do in the owld counthry.

Where's my mother and my sister?" "Miss Somers is taking her exercise, sir, and Mrs. Somers is with the owld gentleman"; opening the door, with the performance of taking father's hat.