But what does Murphy care?
He's perfectly enthusiastic when he can tread on a man's feelin's and stamp all the moral sensibility out of him.
"And Mrs.Murphy, she's not much better.

All the warm days she's home she hustles that baby of hers onto me.

Makes me take the little sucklin' out in his carriage for an airin', and then gets mad if he falls out while I'm conversin' for a few minutes with a friend.

I'd a slid him into the river long ago, only I know well enough they'd sentence me for life, and then I'd maybe have to stand Murphy's persecution for about forty years; and that'd kill me.

It would indeed.