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Occasionally Sergeant Colgan spoke a word of kindly advice to anyone who looked as if he had drunk more than two bottles of porter. "It would be as well for you, Patsy," he would say, "to be getting along home." Or, "I'm thinking, Timothy John, that you'd be better this minute if you were at home." There are no stronger believers in the value of the domestic hearth than the police.
In Henry of Saltrey's account, as given by Messingham in 1624 and Colgan in 1647, this portion of the life of Enius is despatched even with more succinctness, but in Montalvan's 'Vida y Purgatorio de San Patricio', all his early crimes are detailed nearly in the order and almost in the very words that Calderon has used.
Sergeant Colgan, his tunic unbuttoned, his grey flannel shirt open at the neck, dozed uncomfortably in a corner. Moriarty looked at him enviously. The sergeant was much the older man of the two, and was besides of portly figure. Sleep came easily to him under the most unpromising circumstances. Moriarty was not more than twenty four years of age. He was mentally and physically an active man.
'As St. Patrick, says an ancient life of St. Mac Carthainn preserved by Colgan in his Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae, was on his way from the north, and coming to the place now called Clogher, he was carried over a stream by his strong man, Bishop Mac Carthainn, who, while bearing the Saint, groaned aloud, exclaiming: "Ugh! Ugh!"
True, we cannot trace the genealogy of the present version beyond middle of the sixteenth century, but its references to ancient monuments existing at date of its compilation show it to be many centuries older. Its language proves little or nothing, for, being a popular work, it would be modernised to date by each successive scribe. Colgan was of opinion it was a composition of the eighth century.
In Latin, the great tomes of O'Sullivan, Usher, Colgan, Wadding, and White, were written volumes which remain as so many monuments of the learning and industry of that age.
In the folio edition of Mathew Paris, London, 1604, the history of Oenus begins at the 72nd and ends at the 77th page. In Montalvan's life of St. Patrick, the adventures of Enius are given much more fully than either in Matthew Paris or Colgan.
We have taken from this translation several facts contained in this chapter, the work of the Franciscan being not accessible to us. Dr. Todd, from Irish MSS., has given a few pages showing the accuracy of Colgan, although the good father did not scruple occasionally to condense and abridge, unless the MSS. he used differed from those of Dr. Todd.
He realised at once that both Sergeant Colgan and Constable Moriarty wanted to have their photographs taken. "Go over to the door of the barrack," he said, "and arrange yourselves in such a way as to look as ornamental as possible. I'll try to get the gentleman to take another photograph." Mr. Billing had slipped his dark slide into his pocket, and was unscrewing his camera from its stand. Dr.
"It might be," he said, "it very well might be." "It is not then," said Doyle. "Nor it's not the Chief Secretary." "If it's not," said Gallagher, "it's some other of them fellows out of Dublin Castle." "It's a high up gentleman surely," said Sergeant Colgan. "And one that has money to spare," added Constable Moriarty. "It could be that he's one of the bosses of the Congested Districts Board.