JULY 177 



Lieutenant when the throuble was with the Land League. 

 There niver was any onquateness in County Fermanagh, 

 though ; they 're a dacent lot of bhoys in these parts, let 

 alone the loud talking at election times and the like. All 

 the while they were stretching landlords and agents in the 

 south, there niver a gintleman need look over his shoulder 

 within twenty Irish miles of Ballyshannon. But they 

 were afther telling his Excellency terrible tales in Dublin 

 Castle, and, let him go where he would, there was an 

 inspector and four constables following on the side-cars 

 and a detective in private clothes on a horse. 



'So when he comes to the bridge one morning, and 

 asks quite agreeable-like about the fishing, and the wather, 

 and the way we would go, says I, " Me lord your Excellency, 

 the first throw is immadiately upon the spot you stand, 

 and a good throw it is for a new-run fish, the way there 's 

 a nice sup o' wather in her to-day." So I puts a box for 

 him to stand on, the same as I was afther doing for your 

 honour this morning, convanient for him to angle nicely 

 over the par'pet. 



' Now your honour would be noticing for yourself the 

 way the bhoys and gerr-ls gathers round when they see 

 a gintleman begin to fish off Ballyshannon bridge. Av 

 coorse they like to see the sport, tho' be the same token 

 it 's little sport they seen wid your honour this morning. 

 But his Excellency grew unaisy-like when the people 

 came round him and he looked to the right and left and 

 every way to see that the polis were handy ; so says I : 

 " Me lord your Excellency, maybe you 'd be afther going 

 to a more private spot, and indeed the fishing is betther 

 above the eel- weir. If your lordship's Excellency will 

 step this way along the path, the polis on the cyars can 

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