“She is,” replied Sally.
“Begob,” said Tim Croak, after a minute’s serious reflection, “it ought to be put in the papers. I never h’ard afore av a wrong notion bein’ got out av a woman’s head. But Shawn Gow is no joke to dale wud, and it took him seven years to do id.”
Charles Joseph Kickham (1828–1882).
IRISH ASTRONOMY.
A veritable myth, touching the constellation of O’Ryan, ignorantly and falsely spelled Orion.
O’Ryan was a man of might
Whin Ireland was a nation,
But poachin’ was his chief delight
And constant occupation.
He had an ould militia gun,