He went home one night, out of this, with the parson's outside coat and shovel hat upon him, and did not return them for two days." "Does this habit proceed from stupidity, papa ?" "Not at all; but from mere carelessness.

The next two days he was out with his laborers, and if a cow or pig chanced--( the villain! we'll hang him to a certainty)--chanced, I say, to stray into the field, he would shy the shovel hat at them, without remorse.

Oh! we must have him, by all means.

But who next?
Sir Jenkins Joram.

Give him plenty to drink, and he is satisfied." "But what are his political principles, papa ?" "They are to be found in the bottle, Helen, which is the only creed, political or religious, to which I ever knew him to be attached; and I tell you, girl, that if every Protestant in Ireland were as deeply devoted to his Church as he is to the bottle, we would soon be a happy people, uncorrupted by treacherous scoundrels, who privately harbor Papists and foster Popery itself.