Say he died a true Catholic; it will serve him on the hustings.

Meet us in Athlone on Saturday, and bring your uncle's mare with you.

He says he'd rather ride home.

And tell Father Mac Shane, to have a bit of dinner ready about four o'clock, for the corpse can get nothing after he leaves Mountmellick.

No more now, from Yours ever, HARRY BOYLE To CHARLES O'MALLEY, Esq., O'Malley Castle, Galway.
When this not over-clear document reached me I was the sole inhabitant of O'Malley Castle,--a very ruinous pile of incongruous masonry, that stood in a wild and dreary part of the county of Galway, bordering on the Shannon.
On every side stretched the property of my uncle, or at least what had once been so; and indeed, so numerous were its present claimants that he would have been a subtle lawyer who could have pronounced upon the rightful owner.