As my friend Captain Con O'Donnell says, it's plain to the naked eye as a pair of particularly fat laundry drawers hung out to dry and ballooned in extension--if mayhap you've ever seen the sight of them in that state:--just held together by a narrow neck of thread or button, and stretching away like a corpulent frog in the act of swimming on the wind.

His comparison touches the sentiment of disunion, sir.' Mr.Colesworth had not ever seen such a pair of laundry drawers inflated to symbolise the breach between Ireland and England; nor probably, if he had, would the sentiment of national disunion have struck his mind: it was difficult to him in the description.

He considered his Rev.friend to be something of a slippery fish, while Father Boyle's opinion of him likewise referred him to an elemental substance, of slow movement-earth, in short: for he continued to look argumentative after all had been said.
Or perhaps he threw a coveting eye on sweet Miss Kathleen and had his own idea of mending a stitch of the breach in a quite domestic way.

If so, the Holy Father would have a word to say, let alone Kathleen.

The maids of his Church do not espouse her foes.