“Cut out the ‘sup,’ Larry. Cut out that gang of bums at Grogan’s, too. There are too many Germans hanging out around Grogan’s these days. You Sinn Feiners or Clan-na-Gael, or whatever you are, had better manage your own affairs, anyway. The old-time Feinans stood on their own sturdy legs, not on German beer-skids.”
“Wisha then, sorr, d’ye mind th’ ould song they sang in thim days:
“Then up steps Bonyparty
An’ takes me by the hand,
And how is ould Ireland,
And how does she shtand?
It’s a poor, disthressed country
As ever yet was seen,
And they’re hangin’ men and women