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.