May be you've heard what happened to myself up at Moronha ?" "Look to that girth there.

Well, go on." "I was coming along one morning, just as day was beginning to break, when I sees a slip of a pig trotting before me, with nobody near him; but as the road was lonely, and myself rather down in heart, I thought, Musha! but yer fine company, anyhow, av a body could only keep you with him.

But, ye see, a pig--saving your presence--is a baste not easily flattered, so I didn't waste time and blarney upon him, but I took off my belt, and put it round its neck as neat as need be; but, as the devil's luck would have it, I didn't go half an hour when a horse came galloping up behind me.

I turned round, and, by the blessed light, it was Sir Dinny himself was on it!" "Sir Dennis Pack ?" "Yes, bad luck to his hook nose.

'What are you doing there, my fine fellow ?' says he.