"Lizzie--you're unique," she said.

"But I'm glad you didn't give her bonnet a shake--though I've no doubt you could." "Humph!" said Lizzie snorting, the fire of battle in her eye.

"And is it any Black Irish from Ulster would play impudence to a Kerrywoman without getting the flat of a hand in--but that's neither here nor there.

The truth of it is, Miss Neily," her voice grew solemn, "it's my belief they're scared--both of them--by the haunts and the banshees here--and that's all." "If they are they're very silly," said Miss Cornelia practically.

"No, they may have heard of a better place, though it would seem as if when one pays the present extortionate wages and asks as little as we do here--but it doesn't matter.