JULY 179 



' Wid that he gives a down look, and says he, " What 

 made ye do that, anyway ? " but I 'm afther pulling the 

 salmon out o' the bast, and laying them out sthraight 

 upon the green, and as soon as he sees them doesn't he 

 brighten up, the way they made such a beautiful spectacle, 

 wid a five- and- twenty pounder at the head of the class. 



' " Me lord your Excellency," says I, " ye have no more 

 need of an escort, barring meself, on this river, than ye 

 have of the tabernacle of Moses. It 's meself will be afther 

 bringing your Excellency the soonest way to Cliff" (for he 

 was stopping there, ye see, convanient for the fishing), " and 

 proud they '11 be to see you there wid the fish ye have." 



'"Oh, it's not for myself," says he, wid a kind of a 

 shame on his face, " but the men had their orders," says 

 he ; " but lead on," says he, " for it 's time I was home," 

 says he. So I brought him straight to Cliff, and quit him 

 there, and wasn't it then the fun began ? I was travelling 

 down the road to Ballyshannon, when I heard a horse 

 going the great gallop behind me. I looks round, and 

 who 's this but his Excellency's detective. He pulls up 

 all in a lather, and says he, " You 're the man attending 

 upon his Excellency at the fishing," says he. 



' " Faith, 1 11 not be afther giving you the lie," says I, 

 "for that's the truth, supposing ye only spake it in 

 accident." 



'" Oh, hould your fulish tongue," says he in a rage, " an' 

 come along wid me to the polis-oflfice, and answer for your 

 conduct in misguiding the escort." 



'"Be gob, but you'll have to show me the warrant," 

 says I. " It 's a quare pass things is come to if the likes o' 

 you is to give private gintlemen the word of command. 

 Who are ye, anyway ? A stranger in the land, I reckon, 



