"What then?"
"Potatoes again."
"Potatoes! Sheeley with her apron full of—"
"Excellent Irish potatoes."
"Would anybody have imagined such a desecration!"
"They do it, sir; and having thus laughed at the Irish, the Dutch go parading through the streets; and in consequence—"
"The Irish—?"
"Yes—"
"Make bloody noses and cracked crowns, and pass them current, too?" asked Ralph, quoting from Shakspeare.
"Yes, exactly," said Mr. Jinks; "and the day on which this takes place—Saint Patrick's day—is generally submerged in gore!"