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"And puts my things in the paper, when he gets the editor's back turned, for the editor is a consaited chap that likes no one's po'thry but his own; but never mind if I ever get a writ against that chap, won't I sarve it!" "And I dar say some day you will have it agen him, sir," said Larry. "Sure of it, a'most," said Goggins; "them litherary men is always in defficulties."
I have had the wret agen you for some time, but couldn't make you off, till my friend says I must carry a note from him to you." "Where is the note?" inquired Tom. "Not ready yet, sir. It's po'thry he's writin' something 'pithy' he said, and 'lame' too. I dunna how a thing could be pithy and lame together, but them potes has hard words at command." "Then you came away without the note?"
And then a rhyme when it has puzzled you all day, the pleasure you have in nabbing it at last!" "Oh, it's po'thry you're spakin' about," said Larry. "To be sure," said Goggins; "do you think I'd throw away my time on prose? You're burning that bacon, Tim," said he to his sub. "Poethry, agen the world!" continued he to Larry, "the Castilian sthraime for me!
Don't think, sir, I mane I could write the 'laders' or the pollitik'l articles, but the criminal cases, sir the robberies and offinces with the watchhouse cases together with a little po'thry now and then. I think I could be useful, sir, and do better than some of the chaps that pick up their ha'pence that way. But here's my place, sir my little bower of repose."
"What do you think o' that, Goggins?" inquired one bailiff from the other; "you're a judge o' po'thry." "It's sevare," answered Goggins, authoritatively, "but coorse, I wish you'd brile the rashers; I begin to feel the calls o' nature, as the poet says." This Mister Goggins was a character in his way.
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