It was certainly meant for a laugh, as I could perceive by the frightful grin which drew back his lips I from his yellow projecting tusks, as his face appeared to me in the looking-glass--a fact which he seemed to forget.
"'Then, Mr.M'Clutchy, the farms of these men, are they disposed of ?' "'They are disposed of; and, indeed, in any event, I could not, in justice to the landlord's interests, receive the offers which M'Loughlin and Harman made me.

My son here, who, as under agent feels it necessary to reside on the property, and who is about to take unto himself a wife besides, has made me a very liberal offer for M'Loughlin's holding--one, indeed, which I did not feel myself at liberty to refuse.

Mr.M'Slime, our respected law agent, I also considered a very proper tenant for Harman's; and that matter is also closed--by which means I secured two respectable, safe, and unobjectionable tenants, on whose votes, at all events, we can reckon, which was more than we could do with the other two--both of whom had expressed their determination to vote in favor of Hartley.' "'What are the religious opinions of those men, Mr.M'Clutchy ?' "'M'Loughlin is a Papist--' "'But Harman is worse,' interrupted Phil; 'for he's a Protestant, and no Orangeman.' "'I thought,' I replied, 'that nothing could be so bad as a Papist, much less worse.' "'Oh yes,' said Phil, 'that's worse; because one always knows that a Papist's a Papist--but when you find a Protestant who is not an Orangeman, on my sacred honor, you don't know what to make of him.

The Papists are all cowards, too.' "'Then,' said I, 'you have the less difficulty in keeping them down.' "'Upon my soul and honor, sir, you don't know how a naked Papist will run from a gun and bayonet.

I have often seen it.' "At this moment a tap came to the door, and a servant man, in Orange livery, announced a gentleman to see Mr.Philip M'Clutchy.