On seeing him, the school-master got to his limbs, and was about to address him, when Hycy said-- "Finigan, I wish to speak a few words to you." "O'Finigan, sir--O'Finigan, Mr.Burke.It is enough, sir, to be deprived of our hereditary territories, without being clipped of our names; they should lave us those at all events unmutilated.

O'Finigan, therefore, Mr.Burke, whenever you address me, if you plaise." "Well, Mr.O'Finigan," continued Hycy, "if not inconvenient, I should wish to speak a few words with you." "No inconvenience in the world, Mr.Burke; I am always disposed to oblige my friends whenever I can do so wid propriety.

My advice, sir, my friendship, and my purse, are always at their service.

My advice to guide them--my friendship to sustain--and my purse--hem!--ha, ha, ha--I think.

I may clap a payriod or full stop there," he added, laughing, "inasmuch as the last approaches very near to what philosophers term a vacuum or nonentity.