With throwing of brickbats,
Drowned puppies and dead rats,
These ruffin democrats themselves did lower:
Tin kettles, rotten eggs,
Cabbage-stalks, and wooden legs,
They flung among the patriots of Shannon shore.
“Cut down the bloody horde!”
Says Meagher of the sword,
“This conduct would disgrace any blackamore;”
But the best use Tommy made