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Updated: May 19, 2025
"I don't think I've ever heard any of his; but if you will talk of ballads," said the Counsellor, "give me old Mosey M'Garry's: what's finer than" and here began, with a most nasal twang and dolorous emphasis, to sing "'And I stepp'd up unto her, An' I made a congee And I ax'd her, her pardon For the making so free. "And then the next verse, she says
"Why, sir, you ax'd for a bootjack, sure, and I brought you the best I had and it's not my fault it's bruk, so it is, for it wasn't me bruk it, but Biddy batin' the cock." "Beating the cock!" repeated the little man in surprise. "Bless me! beat a cock with a bootjack! what savages!"
"O, as for that matther," said Barny, "the same high-road sarves a coach and four and a lowback car, the thravellin' tinker an' a lord a' horseback." "That's very true," said the captain, "but the cases are not the same, Paddy, and I can't conceive what the devil brings you here." "And who ax'd you to consayve anything about it?" asked Barny, somewhat sturdily.
"The next day, in consequence of his long journey, he was ax'd to do nothing; but in the coorse of the evening, the dark chap brought him into a long, frightful room, where there were three hundred and sixty-five hooks sticking out of the wall, and on every hook but one a man's head.
Den he'd peartin' up, an' he alwuz rode at de head o' de company 'cause he wuz tall; an' hit wan' on'y in battles whar all his company wuz dat he went, but he use' to volunteer whenever de cun'l wanted anybody to fine out anythin', an' 'twuz so dangersome he didn' like to mek one man go no sooner'n anudder, yo' know, an' ax'd who'd volunteer.
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