O'Brien, I see, Tis emotion that smothers Your voice, for to me You're the dearest of brothers And not like the scum and the jackdaws—Tim Healy, McCarthy, and others, You'll help me, and shall, this broadest of ditches You've married a gal, Who they say has got riches And even Price Hughes inst' admire your virtuous views about breeches.
You've goto t mind, In you I shall find And rt Weart be sevoder 5 A most eloquent pleader 5 And while I lie low and wed Kitty it's you shall be chosen us leader, Metarthy! Vain fool Should think he can rule It is really quite odd, he For the doited old body—Is fit but to put his poor feet in hot water and mop up his toddy.
But, William, you Are a sleuth-hound unsleeping You'll staunch be and true, To the Cause in your keeping You'llfight—I say, hang it, old man, that allusion need not provoke weeping.
Tim Healy—Ah Tim Is a different matter, But I'll settle him, If he gives us more chatter as at, Nenagh, shall seo if jus won't shut up his patter.
What matter their jeers, They're not worth a brass garden (Come turn off those tears)
They shall kneel and ask pardon So let's drink to the wily old fraud that is gloomily squirming at Hawarder The Palt Ball's treatment of the Couference is not much kinder to Mr, O'Brien, who, it is said, has been turned towards Mr. Parnell by his wife's relations, who do not see why Mr. Parnell's moral delinqueucies should be allowed to influence his political career. The Pall Mull calls the Conference "The Boulogne Harlequiand under this heading writes as The policy of the pockethandkerchief has ended in what we may call " programme of the pocket. Mr. O'Brien hus wept.; but Mr. Parnell has won, He is willing to pay over some money to New Tij; but, on the other hand, he bus pocketed Mr. O'Brien, And the use to which he proposes to place this new occupant of his pocket is to stultify the Patriots by persuading them to depose their leader in favour of hie own noriinee in return for a transparently fictitious " retirement." Such, if the information we have received is correct, is the outcome of Mr. O'Brien's tears and talk at Boulogne... Mr. Harlequin O'iirien appears on the scene, and hopes that a of his wand will reverse the situation. His soft tears are to avail against all the hard facts; the Patriots-cum-Parnellites are to kiss and be kind, while Mr. Parnell, standing in the background behind nominee of his own, is to bless them both Of such a dénowement all that-we can' say is, that to us brutal Saxons it would show the Patriots to be a8 maudlin as Mr. Parvell has shown himself to be mad. And, lastly,
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