“No,” said Pat, “I don’t like it at all, at all, and I’ll never be buried in it as long as I live.”
“What an unreasonable ould fool ye are, to be sure,” said Mike, losing his temper. “Why man alive, it is a fine cemetery, and if my life is spared, sure I’ll be buried in it.”
An Irishman said that a friend of his had died suddenly. “Did he live high?” he was asked. “I can’t say as to that,” replied Mike “but he died high,—he was hung.”
Mrs. O’Regan—“Did yez ever hov yer palm read, Mrs. O’Reilly?”
Mrs. O’Reilly—“Phwat a question, Mrs. O’Regan! Haven’t I had ten children an’ had to spank all o’ thim?”
CELTIC SARCASM