IRISH SERVANTS 145 



He was to be stopped at once, why not. 



But one old man shook his head. " Ye cannot 

 sthop him," he said placidly. 



" Why not ? They could stop anyone they 

 chose. What did Mist her Dempsey mean ? " 



" I tell ye ye cannot sthop him." 



A perfect chorus now and a wrathful one. 

 " And why can we not sthop him ? " 



A pause. " Ye cannot. . . . Because ye have 

 no conthrol over the King's high road." 



The County Council gasped as they remembered 

 that the gentlemen in question never jumped a fence. 



Concerning second horses I often believe that 

 the good people must help Cuthbert. I tell him 

 one covert or cross-roads. We run out of that 

 country and find ourselves somewhere five miles 

 away and there is Cuthbert. He has seen the 

 crows circlin', or the neighbours runnin' over the 

 hill. He never makes a mistake. 



Other people's second horses may never be found. 

 Mine never fail me. 



The grooms all watched the hunt from the rail- 

 way bridge at Bruree and Cuthbert tells me gravely 

 that *' if ye do not hurry on at the commencement 

 ye will not be there to hurry at the tail of it," 

 which is quite true. 



" I could see Sandy goin' away and he spinnin' 

 with the pace." This is my fretful httle chestnut, 

 whom it would take a cleverer person than I am 

 to stop, " hurryin' in the commincement." 



lO 



