"It's funny," he added, "that in Ireland the word loyal always means being true to the Union Jack, standing by King George and his crowd." "Well, what would you have ?" said Dyck.

"For this is a day and age when being loyal to the King is more than aught else in all the Irish world.
We're never two days alike, we Irish.

There are the United Irishmen and the Defenders on one side, and the Peepo'-Day Boys, or Orangemen, on the other--Catholic and Protestant, at each other's throats.

Then there's a hand thrust in, and up goes the sword, and the rifles, pikes, and bayonets; and those that were ready to mutilate or kill each other fall into each other's arms." Erris Boyne laughed.

"Well, there'll soon be an end to that.