The poor crayter hasn't the use of all her faculties.

I have taken no end o' pains with her, but I can't get her to count twenty on her finger ends wid a whole life's tachein'.

Fortune has turned her dark side to me this long time, now; and, bedad, iv it wasn't for contrivin', an' workin' hard to boot, I wouldn't be able to keep above the flood.

I assure ye it goes agin me to trouble the gentlemen o' the Board; an' so long as I am able, I will not.

I was born in King's County; an' I was once well off in the city of Waterford I once had 400 pounds in the bank.