taphrase of some words. With a due circumspection of the use
of their synonymy, taking care that the import and acceptation of each
phrase and word should not appear frequently synonymous. Again. I have
applied the whip unsparingly to his back, and have given him such a
laudable castigation, as to compel him to comport himself in future with
propriety and politeness; yes, it is quite obvious that I have done it,
by an appropriate selection of catogoramatic and cencatogoramatic terms
and words. I have been particularly careful to adorn it with some
poetic spontaneous effusions, and although I own to you, that I have no
pretensions to be an adept in poetry, as I have only moderately sipped
of the Helicon Fountain; yet from my knowledge of Orthometry I can
prove the correctness of it; by special and general metric analysis. In
conclusion, I have not indulged in Rhetorical figures and Tropes, but
have rigidly adhered to the use of figurative and literal language;
finally I have used a concatination of appropriate mellifluous epithets,
logically and philosophically accurate, copious, sublime, eloquent, and
harmonious.

"Adieu! Adieu! Remember, JOHN O'KELLY, Literary Teacher, And a native of
Dromcoloher."

"The author of this extempore production of writing a Treatise on Mental
Calculations, to which are appended more than three hundred scientific,
ingenious, and miscellaneous questions, with their solutions.

"Mental calculations for the first time are simplified, which will
prove a grand desideratum and of the greatest importance in mercantile
affairs.

"You will not wonder when I will ye,
You have read some pieces from 0' Kelly;
Halt he does, but 'tis no more
Than Lord Byron did before;
Read his pieces and you'll find
There is no limping in his mind;
Reader, give your kind subscription,
Of you, he will give a grand description.

Price 2s., to be paid in advance,

"There are Sixty-eight Subscribers to the forthcoming work, gentlemen
of considerable Talents, Liberality, and worth;--who, with perfect
cheerfulness, have evinced a most laudable disposition to foster,
encourage, and reward, a specimen of Irish Manufacture and Native
Talent, in so humble a person as their extremely grateful, much obliged,
and faithful servant,

"JOHN O'KELLY."

THE MIDNIGHT MASS.

Frank M'Kenna was a snug farmer, frugal and industrious in his habits,
and, what is rare among