CHAPTER VIII. 



A WELL -SPENT SUNDAY. 



A Surprise — Cockburn's Hotel — Streets of Bally- 

 shannon on a Sunday — The Court-house — Exami- 

 nations — Cross-examinations. 



It was so much the custom for the fisher- 

 men to congregate on Sundays at Bally- 

 shannon, that the Parson, on turning out in 

 the morning, the day after the Lough Derg 

 expedition, was in no way surprised to hear 

 that the Squire and Scholar, after fishing 

 their way down the river on the preceding 

 evening, had not returned to Belleek ; and 

 that, in consequence, he and the Captain 

 were now sole tenants of the inn. 



Most of the fishermen, indeed, had relays 

 of clothes and dressing apparatus at Cock- 

 burn's Hotel, and occasionally dined or slept 

 there, as caprice or convenience dictated. 

 The place is not so centrical, nor so handy 



