midnight
says he , ` get up wid yez , you dirty spalpeens ! There 's St. Pathrick in Jerooslem beyant ; the Pope 's signin ' his mittimus to Ireland , to bless it in regard that neither corn , nor barley , nor phaties will grow on the land in consequence of a set of varmints called Black-dugs that ates it up ; an ' there 's not a glass o ' whiskey to be had in Ireland for love or money , ' says Lucifer . ` Get up wid yez , ' says he , ` an ' go in an ' get his blessin ' ; sure there 's not a Catholic-in the counthry , barrin ' Swaddlers , but 's in the town by this , ' says he : ` ay , an ' many of the Protestants themselves , and the Black-mouths , an ' Blue-bellies , -LRB- * Different denominations of Dissenters -RRB- are gone in to get a share of it . And now , ' says he , ` bekase you wor so heavy-headed , I ordher it from this out , that the present night is to be obsarved in the Catholic church all over the world , an ' must be kept holy ; an ' no thrue Catholic ever will miss from this pariod an opportunity of bein ' awake at midnight , ' says he , ` glory be to God ! ' An ' now , good Christians , you have an account o ' the blessed Carol I was singin ' for yez . They 're but hapuns a-piece ; an ' anybody that has the grace to keep one o ' these about them , will never meet wid sudden deaths or accidents , sich as hangin ' , or drownin ' , or bein ' taken suddenly wid a configuration inwardly . I wanst knew a holy man that had a dhrame -- about a friend of his , it was -- Will any of yez take one ?