“Darby M’Graw! Darby M’Graw!”—a wail that rises and falls, always ending with a demand for rum.

“Darby M’Graw,” it wailed--for that is the word that best describes the sound--“Darby M’Graw! Darby M’Graw!” again and again and again; and then rising a little higher, and with an oath that I leave out: “Fetch aft the rum, Darby!”