Food thus spoilt becomes sin,"

Exclaimed Flanagan John, with a ravenous grin;

"For, believe when I say,

Scarce a toothful to-day

I have eat, that I honour to all things might pay.

I now too feel quite sinking,

While I cannot help thinking

They've mistook the day." He continued by winking;

When his speech was cut short by a loud joyful shout

From young Patrick O'Neal, who had kept the look-out.