swarm  o'  bees.  Ocli !  if  we  had  but  attacked  thim
as  I  wanted,  not  a  mother's  son  would  have  lived
to  tell  the  story ;  but  they  got  to  the  whiskey  and
the  pipes,  and  the  reinforcement  came  up,  and  it
was  all  over.  Kelly,  I  remimber  you  were  blind
with  the  drink,  and  yet  ye  kept  on  playing  for  the
dear  life —

"  We'll  down  wid  the  orange  and  up  wid  the  green,
Success  to  the  croppies  wherever  they're  seen  !"

"  Whisht,  Jim,  whisht ! "  cried  Kelly,  looking
about  quite  frightened  ;  "  how  do  you  know  who's
listening? — and,  as  I'm  a  sinner,  yon's  the  master
down  in  the  glin,  looking  as  mild  as  new  milk."

"  How  can  ye  tell  how  he  looks,  and  his  back  to
ye,  ye  nataral?"*  slyly  inquired  the  tailor;  "but
I'm  sorry  he  is  there,  for  I  thought  we  might  have
taken  the  short  cut  through  the  round  meadow."

"  We  may  do  that  still,"  replied  Kelly,  "for
his  honour's  too  much  the  jontleman  to  look  back
whin  onct  on  the  road;  and  there's  others  know
that  as  well  as  me,  I'm  thinking;  for  I  see  Biddy
Parrel  turning  her  two-year-ould  calf  in  through
the  gap ;  well,  that  bates  all — and  she  only  a  Kerry
woman    "

*  Fool.
