right-of-threes

Updated: May 27, 2025

'Quarter, says he, in the richest brogue you'll hear out of Cork 'quarter! you bloody thieves! will you stick a countryman, an' a comrade, ye murtherin' villains, like a boneen in a butcher's shop! He'd have gone on, I dare say, for an hour, but the men had their lances through him before you could say 'knife. As my right-of-threes, himself a Paddy, observed he was discoorsin' the devil in less than five minutes.

G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville - M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur."