"Here's Ryan and Moss"
"Here's Whistle and Bristle"
"Here's Whistle and Bristle and the Russian (ie Buckley)
Wheel: Here's tobacco and who dare smoke it?"
"Begod", says one of the older faction giving him a hardy whack of a plant over the but of the ear:
Counter: "I'll cut it. Let who likes, smoke it".
(Tobacco = Ryan (Tobacco).
Wheel: Hall, Wall, Lane and Moss"
Counter: I'll hang my hat in the Hall
I'll hang my hat against the Wall
I'll hang my hat in the Lane, and
I'll ll hang my hat with the Moss".
"Twelve o clock and not a man killed in Cappawhite yet" as the old woman said for nine years running a man had been killed at the fair.
Last man killed in faction fight in Cappawhite was the Russian (ie the Russian Buckley i.e Michael Burke of the Fox Cover, so called from his great physique. I knew his son well - the last Russian 6 ft high 18 stone who as fine a man as you ever saw
"They considered it an honour in former days . In making a match they liked to join a fighting faction"