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When the next night arrived, the hopes of the crock of gold got the better of his fears, and taking care to arm himself with a bottle of potheen, away he went to the field.

Oh, ne'er may the potheen pass round But—Erin so beseeches— The Isle may with one theme resound,— O'Brien—and his breeches!

Motto for a Bottle of Potheen.—"Oireland! with all thy faults I love thy still."

In Mrs. Knox's disengaged arm was something that I discerned to be the bottle of potheen, and I instantly resolved to minimise the extent of my injuries.

Both oars were gone; there remained to him an empty bottle of "potheen," and a bucket.