"'Have done with your joking,' says Judy, 'and go home to your own dacent wife.'
"'I have her yet to look for,' replied he.
"'Devil have the liars,' says Judy.
"'Ah then, amen!' said Magan.
"'I wouldn't believe ye,' continued she, 'if you kissed the vestment on it.'
"'Liggum lathé,'[65] says he.
"'Why, what good Irish you have for a Northman!' replied Judy.
"'My mother was a Munster woman,' says Mr. Magan.
"'Is she alive?' inquired she.
"'Dead as Cleopatra,' he said, with a laugh; and Judy afterwards remarked, 'she knew he was a rascal, or he would have added, 'God rest her soul!'