island respectively, the former on the third basaltic ridge of the giant’s causeway, the latter embedded to the extent of one foot three inches in the sandy beach of Holeopen bay near the old head of Kinsale. Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west. Messages of condolence and sympathy are being hourly received from all parts of the different continents and the sovereign pontiff has been graciously pleased to decree that a special missa pro defunctis shall be celebrated simultaneously by the ordinaries of each and every cathedral church of all the episcopal dioceses subject to the spiritual authority of the Holy See in suffrage of the souls of those faithful departed who have been so unexpectedly called away from our midst. The work of salvage, removal of débris , human remains etc has been entrusted to Messrs Michael Meade and Son 159, Great Brunswick Street, and Messrs T. & C. Martin 77, 78, 79 and 80, North Wall, assisted by the men and officers of the Duke of Cornwall’s light infantry under the general supervision of H. R. H. , rear admiral, the right honourable sir Hercules Hannibal Habeas Corpus Anderson K. G. , K. P. , K. T. , P. C. , K. C. B. , M. P. , J. P. , M. B. , D. S. O. , S. O. D. , M. F. H. , M. R. I. A. , B. L. , Mus. Doc. , P. L. G. , F. T. C. D. , F. R. U. I. , F. R. C. P. I. and F. R. C. S. I.
You never saw the like of it in all your born puff. Gob, if he got that lottery ticket on the side of his poll he’d remember the gold cup, he would so, but begob the citizen would have been lagged for assault and battery and Joe for aiding and abetting. The jarvey saved his life by furious driving as sure as God made Moses. What? O, Jesus, he did. And he let a volley of oaths after him.
―Did I kill him, says he, or what?
And he shouting to the bloody dog:
―After him, Garry! After him, boy!