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190 Here is a variant of "countings out":—

This was stated to be the way in which a Highlander counted a score of sheep.

On page 58 the story of working out tailors is told. Fifty years ago the perambulating tailor was in great request, and to see three or four of them marching out of Stanhope to some distant farmhouse was of common occurrence; their work might extend over several days, during which time they lived with the family. The following lines addressed to an applicant tells its own story:—

Fixing the day on which his working party would begin their work, he finished thus:—

The newest fashions in dress and factory-made clothing have I expect extinguished the itinerating tailor.

Superstition in Ireland.—Ellen Cushion and Anastatia Rourke were arrested at Clonmel on Saturday charged with cruelly illtreating a child three years old, named Philip Dillon. The prisoners were taken before the Mayor, when evidence was given showing that the neighbours fancied that the boy, who had not the use of his limbs, was a changeling left by the fairies in exchange for the original child.