"An upstart family!--that'll do--oh, murdher--well, 'tis respectable at all events; however, as to havin' the Hogans about them--they wor always about them; it was the same in their father's time.

I remember ould Laghlin Hogan, an' his whole clanjamfrey, men an' women, young an' old, wor near six months out o' the year about ould Gerald Cavanagh's--the present man's father; and another thing you may build upon--that whoever ud chance to speak a hard word against one o' the Cavanagh family, before Philip Hogan or any of his brothers, would stand a strong chance of a shirtful o' sore bones.

Besides, we all know how Philip's father saved Mrs.
Cavanagh's life about nine or ten months after her marriage.

At any rate, whatever bad qualities the vagabonds have, want of gratitude isn't among them." "'-- ----That are true, boys, true, The sky of this life opens o'er us, And heaven--' M'Bride, ma'am, will be a severe loss to his family." "Throth he will, and a sarious loss--for among ourselves, there was none o' them like him." "'Gives a glance of its blue--' "I think I ought to go to the wake to-night.

I know it's a bit of a descent on my part, but still it is scarcely more than is due to a decent neighbor.