Salemina confided to her partner that she feared she was getting a bit old to dance.

He looked at her grey hair carefully for a moment, and then said chivalrously: "I'd not say that that was old age, ma'am.

I'd say it was eddication." When the sets, which are very long and very decorous, are finished, sometimes a jig is danced for our benefit.

The spectators make a ring, and the chosen dancers go into the middle, where their steps are watched by a most critical and discriminating audience with the most minute and intense interest.

Our Molly is one of the best jig dancers among the girls here (would that she were half as clever at cooking!); but if you want to see an artist of the first rank, you must watch Kitty O'Rourke, from the neighbouring village of Dooclone.