"Was it only lately ?" "It was since that other bloody murder, your honour," said Nance Maguire.
"Only since then.

He would talk of it as we sat over the fire there at nights.

'There's murder in the air,' says he.

'Bloody murder is all around us!' he says.

'And it's myself will have to pick my steps careful,' he says, 'for there's him about would give his two eyes to see me a stark and staring corpse,' he says.