ssher?"

"Shure he made no bones about it all--but told me straight out that
he'd killed him in the avenue."

"Did he say why he had done so?"

"Faix I don't remember his saying thin why he'd done it--and I didn't
think to ask him. He was in a flurry like, as war nathural, and he
and I carrying the dead man that'd been hearty only a few minutes
afore! But shure, yer honour knows the thing had been talked over."

"What thing had been talked over?"

"Why, the Captain's death."

"You mean to say by that, that arrangements had been made by certain
persons to kill Captain Ussher?"

"I don't know about arrangements; but there war boys through the
counthry determined to have a fling at him."

"Now I am going to ask you a question particularly affecting the
prisoner, and one to which you must give me a direct answer. Have
you ever been in the prisoner's company, when he and others have
expressed their determination to murder Captain Ussher?"

"Faix, I don't know about dethermination and murder, but I've heard
him threatened."

"Have you heard him threatened with murder?"

"I've heard the boys say that he would be undher the sod that day six
months."

"Have you heard Captain Ussher threatened with death in the
prisoner's presence?"

"I don't know that they ever said death or murder; they don't spake
out that way; av they war going to hole a chap, it's giving him his
_quiatis_ or his _gruel_ they'd be talking about."

"Well, now, on your oath, have you ever, in the prisoner's presence,
heard such language used respecting Captain Ussher as made you think
that he was to be killed?"

"Didn't I tell yer honour I thought all along how he'd be killed."

"Were you ever at Mrs. Mulready's in Mohill?"

"I war."

"Did you ever hear Captain Ussher's name mentioned there?"

"I did."

"Now tell the jury as nearly as you can what was said respecting him
there."

"Why a lot of boys swore together over a noggin or two of sperrits,
to put him undher the sod--that's all; but shure, yer honour, Mr.
Thady, that's him there," and he pointed to the dock, "was niver at
Mother Mulready's."

"Well, but when the boys swore to put the Captain under the sod was
the prisoner's name mentioned?"

"Oh, it war ofthen."

"And what was said about him?"

"Why, yer honour it was this way--and I'll tell you all I know about
it off hand--and thin you'll not be throubling yer honour's self
wid all these questions. The boys war mostly