Well, Your Hanner, I Joined With The Cause And Became A Papist, I Mane A Catholic Once More, And Went At The Head Of Processions Covered All Over With Green Ribbons, Playing Croppies Get Up, Granny Whale, And The Like.

But, your hanner, though I went the whole hog with the repalers and emancipators, they did not make their words good by making a man of me.

Scant and sparing were they in the mate and drink, and yet more sparing in the money, and Daniel O'Connell never gave me the sovereign which he promised me. No, your hanner, though I played Croppies Get Up, till my fingers ached, as I stumped before him and his mobs and processions, he never gave me the sovereign: unlike your hanner who gave me the shilling ye promised me for playing Croppies Lie Down, Daniel O'Connell never gave me the sovereign he promised me for playing Croppies Get Up. Och, your hanner, I often wished the ould Orange days were back again. However as I could do no better I continued going the whole hog with the emancipators and repalers and Dan O'Connell; I went the whole animal with them till they had got emancipation; and I went the whole animal with them till they had nearly got repale - when all of a sudden they let the whole thing drop - Dan and his party having frighted the Government out of its seven senses, and gotten all they could get, in money and places, which was all they wanted, let the whole hullabaloo drop, and of course myself, who formed part of it.

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