They have both too much sense to carry religion about with them like a pair of hawkers, crying out 'who'll buy, who'll buy;' neither do they wear long faces, nor make themselves disagreeable by dragging religion into every subject that becomes the topic of conversation.

On the contrary, they are cheerful, moderately social, and to my own knowledge, with all their pleasantry, are active exponents of much practical benevolence to the poor.

Come, man, take your wine, and enjoy good company." "Lindsay," said one of the guests, a magistrate, "how are we to get the country quiet?
Those rapparees and outlaws will play the devil with us if we don't put them down.

That young scoundrel, _Shawn na Middogue_, is at the head of them it is said, and, it would seem, possesses the power of making himself invisible; for we cannot possibly come at him, although he has been often seen by others." "Why, what has been Shawn's last exploit ?" "Nothing that I have heard of since Bingham's robbery; but there is none of us safe.

Have you your house and premises secured ?" "Not I," replied Lindsay, "unless by good bolts and bars, together with plenty of arms and ammunition." "How is it that these fellows are not taken ?" asked another.
"Because the people protect them," said a third; "and because they have strength and activity; and thirdly, because we have no adequate force to put them down." "All very sound reasons," replied the querist; but as to _Shawn na Middogue_, the people are impressed with a belief that he is under the protection of the fairies, and can't be taken on this account.