Helen!" "Well, papa." "I have doubts whether I shall allow you to sound Reilly on.

Popery." "I would rather decline it, sir." "I'll tell you what; I'll see Andy Cummiskey--Andy's opinion is good on any thing." And accordingly he proceeded to see his confidential old servant.

With this purpose, and in his own original manner, he went about consulting every servant under his roof upon their respective notions of Popery, as he called it, and striving to allure them, at one time by kindness, and at another by threatening them, into an avowal of its idolatrous tendency.

Those to whom he spoke, however, knew very little about it, and, like those of all creeds in a similar predicament, he found that, in proportion to their ignorance of its doctrines, arose the vehemence and sincerity of their defence of it.

This, however, is human nature, and we do not see how the learned can condemn it.