I hope in this case--in both cases--it will do all." After some further conversation upon the matter in question, which it is not our intention to detail here, the stranger made an excursion to the country, and returned about six o'clock to his hotel.

Here he found Dandy Dulcimer before him, evidently brimful of some important information on which he (Dandy) seemed to place a high value, and which gave to his naturally droll countenance such an expression of mock gravity as was ludicrous in the extreme.
"What is the matter, sir ?" asked his master; "you look very big and important just now.

I hope you have not been drinking." Dandy compressed his lips as if his master's fate depended upon his words, and pointing with his forefinger in the direction of Wicklow, replied: "The deed is done, sir--the deed is done." "What deed, sirra ?" "Weren't you tould the stuff that was in me ?" he replied.

"But God has gifted me, and sure that's one comfort, glory be to his name.

Weren't--" "Explain yourself, sir!" said his master, authoritatively.