Her daughter would smile at her mother's sallies,--but she did so simply in kindness.

Kate did not share her mother's sense of humour,--did not share it as yet.

With the young the love of fun is gratified generally by grotesque movement.

It is not till years are running on that the grotesqueness of words and ideas is appreciated.

But Mrs.O'Hara would expend her art on the household drudge, or on old Barney Corcoran who came with the turf,--though by neither of them was she very clearly understood.