"I hear that Slugem and Hittem met last night."
"Yes, so they did."
"Which one of them got the worst of it?"
"Oh, there was no damage done. They made it all up, and nothing suffered but their New Year Resolutions!"
In the Legislature.
"An' Oi say, Moike," said Patrick O'Ferrall, to his neighbor Mike O'Neill, "Oi say, Moike, have ye heerd from yer bye Dennis lately who wint out wist?"
"Thet Oi hev, Pat."
"An' how is the poor bye gettin' on?"