reat favorite with the seniors--stood, or rather had the
honor of standing, within the circle, for the purpose of "houldin'
conversation wid him;" for it could not reasonably be supposed that the
Buck could throw away such valuable political information and high-flown
English upon mere boors, who were incapable of understanding either the
one or the other.

"And so, Mr. English," said one of those whom, he had brought within
the circle, "you think the established church, the great heresy of
Luther,--will go down at last?"

"Think it, Tom--why, if you get me a book I'll swear it, and that's
better than thinking any dee. Didn't Emencipation pess? answer me that."

"Begad it did so, sir,"--from the crowd. "Well," proceeded the Buck,
"what doubt or hesiteetion can there be that the seem power and
authority that riz our own church won't be keepable of puttin' down the
great protesting heresy?"

"See that now," from the crowd; "begad it stands to raison sure enough."

"Certainly," he proceeded, "none what-somever; but then the question is,
how can it be effectualized?"

The crowd--"Begad, and so it is."

"Well, my friends, it isn't at oll difficult to determine that
particularity: you oll know that a men lives by food--very well; pleece
that men in a persition where he can't procur food and the nethrel
kensiquence is that he must die. Eh--ha! ha! ha!--do you kimprehind?"

"Not a doubt of it," replied Mr. Crowd, "but sure, at any rate, we will
kimprehend it by-an'-by."

"Very well; take the protesting? church or the parsons, for it is oll
the seem--deprive them of the mains of support, that is to see, deny
them their tithes--don't pay a shilling--hold out to the death, as my
friend the Counsellor--great O'Connell says--and as we oil say, practice
passive resistance,then you know the establishment must stirve and die
of femine and distitootion, as a contributive jidgment for its sins."

Crowd--"Blood alive, isn't that great!"

"What is it?" from the other circle.

"Why, that the parsons, an' all belonging to them, is to die of family
prostitution for their sins!"

"Devil's cure to them, then, for they desarve it--at least many of them
does, anyhow," says one segment.

"Faith, an' I don't know that either," says another segment. "The
parsons, bad as they're spoken of, was, for the most part, willin' to
live among us; and, begad, you all know that they're kind friends and
good neighbors, an' that the money they g