'And so you don't really know where they come from, nor can't guess ?' 'Maybe, Peru,' said Mr.Burke, innocently.

'Try again, sir,' said Sharkey, with a knowing grin.

'Is it Behring's Straits ?' said Mr.Burke.

'What do you think of Galway, sir ?' said Sharkey, with a leer intended to cement a friendship for life; the words were no sooner out of his lips, than Burke, who immediately took them as a piece of direct insolence to himself and his country, felled him to the earth, and was in the act of continuing the discipline when I arrived on the field of battle.".