"Now, boys, I am goin' to indite a small taste of literal correspondency over at the public-house here; you literati will hear the lessons for me, boys, till afther I'm back agin; but mind, boys, absente domino strepuunt servi meditate on the philosophy of that; and, Mick Mahon, take your slate and put down all the names; and, upon my soul hem credit, I'll castigate any boy guilty of misty mannes on my retrogadation thither; ergo momentote, cave ne titubes mandataque frangas."