There's no tellin' What the prison-surgeon would have done to him.

It is saltpetre, they tell me, the English doctors rub into the Irish wounds, to kape them smartin'.

And, by the like token, they do the same too in the English House of Commons.

Saltpetre in Ireland's wounds is what they give us." "Is he much hurt ?" asked Angela.
"Well, they've broken nothin'.

Just blackened his face and made a few holes in his skin.