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and dull walks ; or why, as in Scotland, whis- 

 tling even should be considered* as a crime 

 on Sunday, and humming a tune, however 

 sacred, out of doors, as a reason for violent 

 anger and persecution. 



Orn. — I agree with Poietes, in his views 

 of the subject. I have suffered from the pe- 

 culiar habits of the Scotch Church, and there- 

 fore may complain. Once, in the north of 

 Ireland, when a very young man, I ventured 

 after the time of divine service to put together 

 my rods, as I had been used to do in the 

 Catholic districts of Ireland, and fish for sea 

 trout in the river at Rathmelton, in pure inno- 

 cence of heart, unconscious of wrong, when I 

 found a crowd collect round me — at first I 

 thought from mere curiosity, but I soon dis- 

 covered I was mistaken ; anger was their mo- 

 tive, and vengeance their object. A man soon 

 came up, exceedingly drunk, and began to 

 abuse me by various indecent terms ; such as 

 a Sabbath-breaking papist, &c. It was in 

 vain I assured him I was no papist, and no 

 intentional Sabbath breaker: he seized my 

 rod, and carried it off with imprecations ; and 



