"A Word and a Blow!"—First Gent (Celt). "Ye met'm at me brother's, the mimber, I think?" Second Gent (Saxon). "Yes, but I haven't any favourable impression of him—'n fact—um—he struck me as a liar." First Gent. "Did he, thin?! I hope ye hit'm back, surr!"
Boys at play (after an execution).—First Kilkenny "Boy." "Did ye see the cock-fightin' at Pat Daly's lasst night?" Second Kilkenny "Boy." "I did not." First Kilkenny "Boy." "Did ye see the 'boys' 'suffer-r,' this mornin'?" Second Kilkenny "Boy" (listlessly). "I did not." First Kilkenny "Boy." "Ah, thin, ye take no delight out o' yerself, at all, at all!"
