He was in a state of the highest Paddy excitement.

He grinned and bounced like a caravan of monkeys.

But he was not much scared; he was mainly in a furious rage.

Pointing his musket first at one and then at another, he returned yell for yell, and was in fact abusive.
"Oh, fire yer bow-arreys!" he screamed.

"Ye can't hit the side av a waggin.