from the drama "Arrah na Pogue"
By Dion Boucicault and E. H. Hope
1865
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As he did so there came from down the road the brisk tramp of feet and a cheerful whistling of "The Wearing of the Green." It is a lugubrious song as a rule, but, as rendered by Officer Keating returning home with theatre tickets, it had all the joyousness of a march-tune.
Death at the Excelsior. Misunderstood