Lone footfalls echo through the corridors of Saint Bridget's school in Loughrea.

There, within that now poor garden still bloom Saint Bridget's leek, and once ran flowers.

By Saint Bridget, Kennedy, we were not far wrong when we called you a knight errant.

Take Saint Thomas, the Treasure of God, as Saint Bridget calls him: where was he born?

What is paid to the treasury of Saint Bridget, cannot, agreeably to our rule, be on any account restored.

This celebrated man has always ranked with Saint Patrick and Saint Bridget as the most glorious triad of the Irish Calendar.

I wish we had strung you up to Saint Bridget's oak when we had you and your uncle in our power.

"Holy Saint Bridget!" said Bertha, shivering, "how cold it is!

The stories include that of Saint Bridget and the King's Wolf, Saint Fronto's Camels, Saint Rigobert's Dinner, and Saint Francis of Assisi.

Bring these fine-coated gentlemen along, boys, and we'll set them dangling to a branch of Saint Bridget's oak, to teach their likes better manners.

"In three days hence, let me receive thy shrift at the convent of Saint Bridget," continued the ecclesiastic.