But do you know how Roger Cooke sarved Adam Blakely of Glencuil ?" "Perfectly well," replied Hycy, "he ruined him." "But we don't know it," said Ned; "how was it, Teddy ?" "Why, he set up a still on his property--an' you know Adam owns the whole townland, jist as Bryan M'Mahon does Ahadarra--an' afther three or four runnin she gets a bloody scoundrel to inform upon Adam, as if it was him an' not himself that had the still.

Clinton the gauger--may the devil break his neck at any rate!--an' the redcoats--came and found all right, Still, Head, and Worm." "Well," said Bat, "an' how did that ruin him ?" "Why, by the present law," returned Phats, "it's the townland that must pay the fine.

Poor Adam wasn't to say very rich; he had to pay the fine, however, and now he's a beggar--root an' branch, chick an' child out of it.

Do you undherstand that, Misther Hycy ?" "No," replied Hycy, "you're mistaken; I have recourse to the still, because I want cash.

Honest Jemmy the gentleman has taken the _sthad_ an' won't fork out any longer, so that I must either run a cast or two every now an' then, or turn clodhopper like himself.