Others joined in mixing up half a dozen songs in one musical outpouring, and the result was laughable in the extreme.

"If all the young maidens were ducks in the water,

'Tis then the young men would jump out and swim after . . "

"I'm Barney O'Hare from the County Clare

I'm an Irish cattle drover,

I'm not as green as ye may think

Although I'm just new-over . . ."

"For a sailor courted a farmer's daughter

That lived convainint to the Isle of Man . . ."

"As beautiful Kitty one mornin' was trippin'