The young one spotted Simeon, and set up a whoop.
"'Oh! there's the funny whiskers,' he sings out.
"'Good evenin', my son,' says the priest.
"'Who's the fat man ?' remarks Archibald, sociable.

'I never saw such a red fat man.

What makes him so red and fat ?' "These questions didn't make Father McGrath any paler.

He laughed, of course, but not as if 'twas the funniest thing he ever heard.
"'So you think I'm fat, do you, my boy ?' says he.
"'Yes, I do,' says Archibald.

'Fat and red and funny.