But nothing of the kind ensued; the mob were already beginning to disperse, and before I recovered perfectly from the excitement of these few and terrible moments, the square was nearly empty, and I almost felt as if the wild and frantic denunciation that still rang through my ears, had been conjured up by a heated and fevered imagination.
When I again met our party at the dinner table, I could not help feeling surprised on perceiving how little they sympathized in my feeling for the events of the day; which, indeed, they only alluded to in a professional point of view--criticising the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the character of the different witnesses who were examined.
"Well," said Mr.Daly, addressing our host, "you never could have had a conviction to-day if it wasn't for Mike.

He's the best evidence I ever heard.

I'd like to know very much how you ever got so clever a fellow completely in your clutches ?" "By a mere accident, and very simply," replied the justice.

"It was upon one of our most crowded fair days--half the county was in town, when the information arrived that the Walshes were murdered the night before, at the cross-roads above Telenamuck mills.

The news reached me as I was signing some tithe warrants, one of which was against Mickey.