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His worship left word, Barney, didn't he, ch ? ’r
“ No, sorra a sentence hi a honor did say,
Bui sure we can’t tell how they'll be till we’ve tried,
So six ilia.ll be bifed, and the rest shall be fried.”

Wellr Barney biled six with the taters, he did.
And the other half dozen he fried in the lid,
‘‘ The quare hitle spalpeens are doing divinely,
llo ly Virgin," said he, "but my mouth waters finely.
It's long, wifie dear. since you had such a irate,M
Said he, as lie brought her a knife and a plate;
I hen he raised he:' in bed and the leeches he hr ought her,
And stood bv to wait as a yentles'ium ouyht ter,

Wifie looked pleased, very much, and she smiled
As she daintily stuck her fork into a bilcd;
Then with great satisfaction the odd little eratur
She popped in her mouth with a piece of pertatcr.
She mundicd, but her face, it grew longer and longer;
The doubt on her features grew stronger and stronger,
Still the leech with an effort she managed to swallow'.
Bui a storm of dismast the boiled leeches did follow.
Barney, who wifie in wonder had c^ved,
S;:id, “ Darling, don't eut tin ; try one of the fried.1'

Wifie tried two, and by some means or other,
She bolted thorn down, but. she tried not another;
Barney did press her, but still, we must own.
He wouldn't fed hurt if she left them alone.
No dinner he'd had, ?md lie thought that his l.aters
Would he greatly improved by the fat little ciaturs,
So he finished the nine without any more fussing,
While she, in her beurt, the young vannins was cussing.