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 creased in value, and about equivalent only to the legal interest thereof. The principal sum, or the leather, he was resolved to have, and this he swore innumerable times, accompanying each oath with a heavy thwack to solemnize it, on the loins of the astonished nag, in order to keep his resolution to the sticking place, and that, being religiously bound, he should have no possible loop-hole for sneaking off unsatisfied.

A tremendous pull at a pitcher of whisky on his arrival at Cashel, about night-fall, augmented his resolution “to get at his rights;” and after shaking hands and shipping tankards with a few old friends in the inn-kitchen, and seeing his horse doubly fed by way of salvo or remuneration for the double beating he had endured, our hero inquired for the Cashel-man.

"Is it Timmy Grogan you mean? Troth then he lives in the overright street just," said the ostler. "What! in the same house he had two years back?" "Not de same—but one like it—de neighbour to it—but if ye're going to Timmy, take heed and don't be foul o' the ould house, the which (his presence be with us!) has been haunted dese ten months. Timmy left it 'kase de ghosts terrified him."

"I'll mind, I'll mind," said Darby, striding forth with his hat cocked, his left arm a-kimbo, and his right hand grasping with superfluous energy a huge shillalah. "I'll mind,” said he, "I'll mind:" thinking of any thing else rather than the instructions of the ostler. He arrived