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the girl passed through after Miss Daly, the moment she saw him She 

 screeched, and ran out as fast as a hare from the dogs ; an' when ]\Iiss 

 Daly axed her what ailed her to make her behave that way, she tould 

 her, that tlie murtherer she saw in her dhrame was sittin' in the kitchen, 

 an' iv he wasn't turned off that instant minute she'd lave the sarvice that 

 very day. An angry girl IMiss Daly was to hear her talk that way, an' 

 tould her to go as fast as she liked, and go she did. Three nights afther 

 that the dhrame come thrue, and the masther and the misthress were 

 killed in their bed — Oh ! the kind misthress that never closed her eyes 

 on her pillow with an angry thought agin mortal breathin'. Am I belyin' 

 ye .''" said she, stepping fiercely up to the corpse, " Didn't I curse ye on 

 m}' bended knees, when ye wakened me up will your bloody hands to 

 tell me what ye had done } Didn't I tell ye that bad loock an' misfortin' 

 id stick to you an' yours to ye're grave, an' that nothin' that touched 

 ye id thrive } An' isn't the curse come thrue ? Where's my child, my 

 beautiful boy, that sickened from that very hour, as if he was sthruck 

 wid an evil eye ? Where's my ould father, that died ov a broken heart 

 wid the shame ye brought upon me ? and where, oh, where is the inno- 

 cent thoughts that used keep me singin' for joy the live-long day, an' I 

 listenin' to the birds in the threes, an' lookin' at the deer in the park, an' 

 gatherin' the flowers on the hill, an' thinkin' nothin' that wasn't good 

 and happy ? An' where is that qviiet sleep that never come near me 

 from the day I knew ye, an' never will 'till I'm laid in my grave } 

 an' the sooner that blessed hour comes the betther, for there I'll be quiet 

 at last. Ye've seen an awful sight. Sir, an' ye've heard an awful story, 

 an' iv it's a warnin' to ye, gentleman as ye are, that company lades to 

 ruin, I'm glad ye come : any how it was kindness made ye stay, an' 

 God 'ill bless ye for it. There's the day breakin', an' the wimin 'ill 

 be comin' here to lay him out wid the first light, and the sooner ye 

 go, the betther for both." 



It was with the utmost difficulty that I could prevail upon this ex- 

 traordinary woman to accept of a trifling sum, which I pressed upon her : 

 she said that " she had done nothing to desarve it," and it was only 

 through fear of offending me by a refusal, that she took it at last. An 

 hour and a half of sharp walking, brought me to the village of Delganny, 

 and though the scenery in that neighbourhood is of a most romantic and 

 picturesque character, you must excuse me from describing it after the 

 events of the night. About two miles from Delganny, I got on board a 

 fishing-boat bound for Dublin, and a bright and tranquil evening found 

 tne at anchor in the harbour of Kingstown, " a sadder and a wiser man," 

 than I was the day before. J. R. O. 



