The colours on his threadbare bag,
And Pinch is twice as hairy
And thin-spare as when first I saw
Himself and Caoch O'Leary.
"God's blessing here!" the wanderer cried,
"Far, far be hell, black viper;
Does anybody hereabouts
Remember Caoch, the piper?"
With swelling heart I grasped his hand;
The old man murmured, "Deary,