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'It could not be Counsellor Gallagher, that was kilt in the jewel with Colonel Ruck he was hot in the head bud it could not be augh! not at all. 'Why not, Misther Mattocks? 'No, nor the Mattross neither. This, ye see, is a dhry bit o' the yard here; there's ould Darby's coffin, at the bottom, down there, sound enough to stand on, as you see, wid a plank; an' he was buried in the year '93.
But though he was no chicken, his memory did not go far enough back to throw any light upon the matter. 'Could it be the Mattross that was shot in the year '90, as I often heerd, for sthrikin' his captain? suggested a by-stander. 'Oh! that poor fellow's buried round by the north side of the church, said Mattocks, still eyeing the skull.
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