Are you hungry ?" "You'd better believe I am." "Why had I better belave it ?" asked Mickey, with an assumption of gravity that it was impossible for him to feel.

"If ye give me your word of honor, I'll belave you, because I've been hungry myself, and know how it goes.

I have some lunch wid me, and if ye don't faal above ating with common folks, we'll sup together." "I am so glad," responded Fred, who was indeed in need of something substantial.

"I feel weak and hollow." "Ye shall have your fill; take the word of an Irishman for that.

Would you like to smoke ?" "You know I never smoke, Mickey." "I did n't ax ye that question, but if ye doesn't feel inclined to do the same, I'll indulge myself a little." The speaker had been preparing his pipe and tobacco while they were talking, and, as he uttered the last words, he twitched the match against the bowl, and immediately began drawing at it.
As the volumes of smoke issuing from his mouth showed that the flame had done its duty, he held the match aloft, and looked down in the smiling, upturned face of the lad, scrutinizing the handsome countenance, as long as the tiny bit of pine held out.
"Yes, it's your own lovely self, as Barney McDougan's wife obsarved, when he came home drunk, with one eye punched out and his head cracked.
Do ye know that while I was surveying your swate face I saw something behind ye ?" "No.