CATHLEEN.

These bad times,

Can any news be bad or any good?

GARDENER.

A crowd of ugly lean-faced rogues last night—

And may God curse them!—climbed the garden wall.

There is scarce an apple now on twenty trees,

And my asparagus and strawberry beds

Are trampled into clauber, and the boughs

Of peach and plum-trees broken and torn down