Very well, sir, don't you know that there's a prop on one side to keep up one of the cupples that gave way one stormy night, and there's a round hole in the lower part of the door to let the cats in to settle accounts wid the mice and rats." "Come, come, boys, it's all right.

He has described the barn to a hair.
That will do, my Papish old cock.

Come, I say, as every man must have a religion, and since the Papishes won't have ours, why the devil shouldn't they have one of their own ?" "That's dangerous talk," said Steen, "to proceed from your lips, sergeant.

It smells of treason, I tell you; and if you had spoken these words in the days of the great and good King William, you might have felt the consequences." "Treason and King William be hanged!" replied the sergeant, who was naturally a good-natured, but out-spoken fellow--"sooner than I'd take up a poor devil of a beggar that has enough to do to make out his bit and sup.

Go on about your business, poor devil; you shan't be molested.
Go to my uncle's, where you'll get a bellyfull, and a comfortable bed of straw, and a winnow-cloth in the barn.