At last he died, and eight thousand of the ten was buried with him.

My grandfather followed his father all in good course of time, and only left my father about one hundred acres of bog, to keep up the dignity of the family.

I am the youngest of ten, and devil a copper have I but my pay, or am I likely to have.

You may talk about _descent_, but a more _descending_ family than mine was never in existence, for here am I with twenty-five pounds a-year, and a half-pay of 'nothing a day, and find myself,' when my great ancestor did just what he pleased with all Ireland, and everybody in it.

But this is all nothing, except to prove satisfactorily that I am not worth a skillagalee, and that is the reason which induces me to condescend to serve his Majesty.