THE BLARNEY STONE.
Oh, did you ne'er hear of the Blarney,
'Tis found near the banks of Killarney,
Believe it from me, no girl's heart is free,
Once she hears the sweet sound of the Blarney.
Lover.
"I tell you, Mike, agra! it's no manner o' use, for do it I can't, an' that's the long an' the short of it."
"Listen at him, why it isn't bashful that you are, eh, Ned, avic?"
"Faix, an' I'm afeard it is."
"Gog's bleakey! why, they'll put you in the musayum along wid the marmaids an' the rattlin' sneaks; a bashful Irishman! why, a four-leaved shamrogue 'ud be a mutton-chop to that, man alive."