tle; for when
he turned to the bride's house, instead of pulling up as he ought to
do--why, to show his horsemanship to the crowd that was out looking at
them, he should begin to cut up the horse right and left, until he
made him take the garden ditch in full flight, landing him among the
cabbages. About four yards or five from the spot where the horse lodged
himself was a well, and a purty deep one, by my word; but not a sowl
present could tell what become of the tailor, until Owen Smith chanced
to look into the well, and saw his long spurs just above the water; so
he was pulled up in a purty pickle, not worth the washing; but what did
he care? although he had a small body, the sorra one of him but had a
sowl big enough for Golias or Sampson the Great.

* Flush is a pool of water that spreads nearly across a
road. It is usually fed by a small mountain stream, and in
consequence of rising and falling rapidly, it is called
"Flash."

"As soon as he got his eyes clear, right or wrong, he insisted on
getting the bottle: but he was late, poor fellow, for before he got
out of the garden, two of them comes up--Paddy Doran and Peter
Flanagan--cutting one another to pieces, and not the length of your nail
between them. Well, well, that was a terrible day, sure enough. In the
twinkling of an eye they were both off the horses, the blood streaming
from their bare heads, struggling to take the bottle from my father, who
didn't know which of them to give it to. He knew if he'd hand it to
one, the other would take offince, and then he was in a great puzzle,
striving to raison with them; but long Paddy Doran caught it while he
was spaking to Flanagan, and the next instant Flanagan measured him with
a heavy loaded whip, and left, him stretched upon the stones.--And now
the work began: for by this time the friends of both parties came up
and joined them. Such knocking down, such roaring among the men, and
screeching and clapping of hands and wiping of heads among the women,
when a brother, or a son, or a husband would get his gruel! Indeed, out
of a fair, I never saw anything to come up to it. But during all this
work, the busiest man among the whole set was the tailor, and what was
worst of all for the poor creature, he should single himself out against
both parties, bekase you see he thought they were cutting him out of his
right to the bottle.

"They had now broken up the garden gate for weapons, all except one