'I'll go up and give him a slap.' She lost no time in reaching the little room, and when she entered she saw the bed with what she thought was Mike under the clothes.

'Mike, ye rascal,' she exclaimed, 'turn down the sheet this minute.

It's mesilf as'll tache ye to raise a noise at this time o' night.

For shame, ye spalpane! What, ye won't obey your own mother?
I'll show ye.

Take that!' She brought her hand down upon the figure outlined under the sheet with a resounding whack.