Yes. And where were you when the flood broke loose? / I would be most of the way to the Old House then. O'Loughlin was after running in wild to tell me he was hearing the Banshee out at The Old House, […].

Still, when a miners’ agent lays himself out to consider the scandalosities of life, it isn’t for mere newspaper folk to offer a word on the subject.

Thy lady is a scurvy lady, and a shitten lady, / And, though I never heard of her, a deboshed lady.

You've been nice enough, but what am I, chopped liver or something?