"I have not closed an eye in bed,

And the clock has just struck three.

Who has been standing you on your head

In the ash-barrel, pardie?"

"I am not drunk, Lad' Shane," he said:

"And so late it cannot be;

The clock struck one as I enteréd—

I heard it two times or three;

It must be the salmon on which I fed

Has been too many for me."