She behaved like an unbroken filly at first, but soon striking her pace, turned out a capital goer, and took us on without turning a hair till her work was done.

The weather continued to be good, but clouds rolled up around the horizon.
"It'll always be bad weather," said our saturnine jarvey, "when the Judges come to hold court, and never be good again till they rise." Here is a consequence of alien rule in Ireland, never, so far as I know, brought to the notice of Parliament.
"Why is this ?" I asked; "is it because of the time of the year they select ?" "The time of year, sorr ?" he replied, glancing compassionately at me.
"No, not at all; it's because of the oaths!" We reached Letterkenny in time for a very good luncheon at "Hegarty's," one of the neatest little inns I have ever found in a place of the size.
It stands on the long main street which is really the town.

At one end of this street is a very pretty row of picturesque ivy-clad brick cottages, built by a landlord whose property and handsome park bound the town on the west; and the street winds alongside the slope of a hill rising from the bank of the Swilly river.

A fair was going on.

The little market-place was alive with bustling, chattering, and chaffering country-folk.