Thinks I to myself, if Master Dan wants to be after giving me a whack on the skull, I shall have had time to jump up before he has done for me; but the Spalpeen did not find me out, I've a notion, and I'll be on the watch for him if he does, another night.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
"We'll ride on slowly, and if he doesn't catch us up we'll turn back to look for the Spalpeen, though the delay will be provoking," observed the major.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston
And one time a great brute of a Spalpeen did catch me, and he nearly broke me in two with the squeeze he gave me, so that I wouldn't get away till I'd showed him the gold.
"Fairies and Folk of Ireland"
William Henry Frost