The Welsh speak their language so fast, that divil a word could I ever contrive to pick up." "Do you speak Irish ?" "I do, yer hanner; that is when people spake to me in it." I spoke to him in Irish; after a little discourse he said in English: "I see your hanner is a Munster man.

Ah! all the learned men comes from Munster.

Father Toban comes from Munster." "I have heard of him once or twice before," said I.
"I daresay your hanner has.

Every one has heard of Father Toban; the greatest scholar in the world, who they, say stands a better chance of being made Pope, some day or other, than any saggart in Ireland." "Will you take sixpence ?" "I will, your hanner; if your hanner offers it; but I never beg; I leave that kind of work to my wife and daughter as I said before." After giving him the sixpence, which he received with a lazy "thank your hanner," I got up, and followed by my daughter returned to the town.
Henrietta went to the inn, and I again strolled about the town.

As I was standing in the middle of one of the business streets I suddenly heard a loud and dissonant gabbling, and glancing around beheld a number of wild-looking people, male and female.