Her father taught her a great many things that we ignorant people in Ireland used to think a great deal of.

Oh, she was a good and tender mother to me, ladies, avourneen.
'My father was an Irishman, and a fine, handsome man.

He was a soldier, a corporal in the Welsh Fusiliers, and used to be called Corporal O'Grady.

He was going through this country to Ireland, to visit his friends, on leave, when he first saw mother, and fell in love with her, and she with him.

She knew that her father would not be willing that they should marry, so she ran away with him to Ireland.