We Would Not Give Up Our Own

I'll Take No Charity! What I Get I'll Earn By Taking It. I Would Feel No Pleasure It Being Given To Me, Any More Than A Huntsman Would Take Pleasure Being Made A Present Of A Dead Fox, In Place Of Getting A Run Across Country After It.

It's A Grand Thing To Be Able To Take Your Money In Your Hand And To Think No More Of It When It Slips Away From You Than You Would A Trout That Would Slip Back Into The Stream.

Queen Victoria Was Loyal And True To The Pope; That Is What I Was Told, And So Is Edward The Seventh Loyal And True, But He Has Got Something Contrary In His Body.

It's Best Make Changes Little By Little, The Same As You'd Put Clothes Upon A Growing Child.

Irish History Having Been Forbidden In Schools, Has Been, To A Great Extent, Learned From Raftery's Poems By The People Of Mayo, Where He Was Born, And Of Galway, Where He Spent His Later Years.