MR.

O'LEARY'S FIRST LOVE.
"It was during the vice-royalty of the late Duke of Richmond that the incidents I am about to mention took place.

That was a few years since, and I was rather younger, and a little more particular about my dress than at present." Here the little man cast an eye of stoical satisfaction upon his uncouth habiliments, that nearly made us forget our compact, and laugh outright.

"Well, in those wild and headstrong days of youthful ardour, I fell in love--desperately in love--and as always is, I believe, the case with our early experiments in that unfortunate passion, the object of my affection was in every way unsuited to me.

She was a tall, dark-haired, dark-eyed maiden, with a romantic imagination, and a kind of a half-crazed poetic fervour, that often made me fear for her intellect.