The bucket of water was missing.

The stage hand who was very mellow exclaimed: "I had it here a moment ago but I can't find it now.

Ah, here it is," and he drew a pail from under a table and deluged Paul.

Up went the curtain, the audience screamed, Paul looked down on his armor in dismay, instead of water he was covered with white calsomine, when a voice from the gallery roared: "That's the first rale white-washed Yankee I've ever seen." A white washed Yankee is an Irishman who has spent about two years in America and returning to his own country apes the accent and eccentricity of the down east Yankee.
Before leaving Dublin, Paul gave an exhibition in the lake in the Zoological Garden, Phenix Park and so intense was the desire to see him in the water that the sum of seventy pounds was received from admissions.

He also made a run down the Liffy through the heart of the city, during which time it is estimated that over a hundred thousand people turned out to see him.
On November 9th Paul made a swim from Howth Head to the historic Island of Dalkey, a distance of about ten miles.