From the house of death, the corpse of an aged female was carried out amidst the shrieks and imprecations of both men and women! The sick child that clung with faintness to the bosom of its distracted mother, was put out under the freezing blast of the north; and on, on, onward, from house to house, went the steps of law, accompanied still by the increasing tumult of misery.

This was upon Christmas eve--a day of "joy and festivity!" At length they reached O'Regan's,and it is not our intention to describe the occurrence at any length.

It could not be done.

O'Regan clasped his hands, so did his wife; they knelt--they wept--they supplicated.
They stated the nature of his malady--decline--from having ruptured a blood-vessel.

They ran to M'Clutchy, to M'Slime, to the squat figure on horseback.