my-cross-scrope

Updated: June 6, 2025

Ye're right, 'twas a my-cross-scrope; ye hit it to a pop; bedad 'tis yerself has the larnin. An' the people looked through it at the wather he put in a glass, an' they seen the wather all swimmin' wid snakes an' scorpions; 'twas enough to terrify the mortal sowl out o' ye. An' so Sheela looked in an' saw them.

Robert John Buckley - Ireland as It Is: And as It Would be Under Home Rule