Seumas Beg

A MAN was sitting underneath a tree Outside the village, and he asked me what Name was upon this place, and said that he Was never here before. He told a lot

Of stories to me too. His nose was flat. I asked him how it happened, and he said The first mate of the Mary Ann done that With a marling-spike one day, but he was dead,

And jolly good job too ; and he'd have gone A long way to have killed him, and he had A gold ring in one ear ; the other one " Was bit off by a crocodile, bedad."

That's what he said. He taught me how to chew. He was a real nice man. He liked me too.