’lire Padi y drew the eoikand tould me to make it hot, so ho gave his tunga hoPyday whin 1 was mixing it. Here’s to you, Toby, ses he ; I’m sorry that we didn’t nominate you for the County Council, lor I am sure that Mislher Pykn wud vacate tho chair, if he saw a lit ami proper person to All the ollice. In leadin’ over the debate about the Chair manship from your paper, the men who voted agon the ould man takin’ the chair, reminded me ov a fisherman 1 red of long

ago. His fisbin rod was a peacock’s feather, An’ his loine was made of the liueit tether, He baited his hook with mites ov cheese, And sat in Lis bed and Ashed for-

Hum, whether he Ashed for plesnre or pro- At history doesn’t state, but I have a no shuu that a minority ov your councillors, like a majority of our own, wud hev skiu’d the animals for the hide and fat, and made beef ov tho karkases afterwards. Were you at the concert at Cromwell the other nite ? Mo, scs I, we eudn’t shut up the house, so Molly and 1 tossed up. She won the to.-s, and tuk young Toby wid her and they bed a grate uite. There was a crowd of young ladies that, jedging from their voices, wud hev been good to look upon, ses Paddy, but me site is failing, and 1 had to depind on me hearing, but were I Turk or Mormon, an’ had every manes of kaping thim comfortable; and a house big enutf to hould thim, and me about 40 yares younger, and able to keep thim from quarrelling, I’d marry the whole lot for the plesher of hearing them sing. But, Toby, there was a wagaboue iaraken sittin’ beside me, and I wud hev seen bis throat cut at tho moment widout any pity for him, for ho was making me la ft' agon me will, and as 1 had neuraigy in the face and stitches in me side, its painful to laff, but lest I wud die restrau ing meself, 1 bed to give way, so the stitches broke and the newraigy went wid it, and I haven’t had pain or ake sinse. 