Is it any wonder if I remember no more?
There I was, the chosen one of the widow Boggs, the elder elect, the favored friend and admired associate of Mr.M'Phun, taking an airing on a summer's evening on the back of a drunken Irishman.

Oh, the thought was horrible! and certainly the short and pithy epithets by which I was characterized in the crowd, neither improved my temper nor assuaged my wrath, and I feel bound to confess that my own language was neither serious nor becoming.

Tim, however, cared little for all this, and pursued the even tenor of his way through the whole crowd, nor stopped till, having made half the circuit of the wall, he deposited me safe at my own door; adding, as he set me down, 'Oh, av you're as throublesome every evening, it's a wheelbarrow I'll be obleeged to bring for you!' "The next day I obtained a short leave of absence, and ere a fortnight expired, exchanged into the -- th, preferring Halifax itself to the ridicule that awaited me in Londonderry.".