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give twenty pounds to hear that all the weirs 

 were broken from that to the sea. Little 

 else was said, and little notice was taken, 

 apparently, of his observation, but the next 

 morning one of the men came up, and told 

 our honours, in an undertone and with a 

 knowing wink of his eye, that the salmon 

 might come up now, for there was nothing 

 to hinder them : and sure enough, so it 

 was ; they had collected a party and had 

 demolished everything — there was not a 

 single stake or stone left standing ; and 

 at the same time there was not a man in 

 Killarney, except the actors, who had the 

 smallest idea who did it, or why it was 

 done." 



" Did your friend pay the twenty pounds ?" 

 said the Squire. 



" Don't you get a foolish habit of asking 

 inconvenient questions," said the Captain ; 

 " we neither of us could tell whether it was 

 not our own heads that were to come next. 

 So much I will tell you, that my friend was 

 off the next day, and has not seen much of 

 the beauties of Killarnev since.' 1 



" I should not much wonder if we heard 

 that something of the sort was done here," 



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