"Well, M'Dowel, mark-me,--I neither can, nor will, overlook neglect in
these matters. The man that neglects them wilfully, is a man I won't
depend upon--and two of your neighbors were absent from parade on
Wednesday week. Now, it's really too bad to expect that I, or any other
gentleman in the country, will exert ourselves so strenuously to sustain
and extend our own principles, or! to speak plainly, to keep them up--to
maintain our ascendancy,--if we cannot reckon upon the earnest and
cordial support of those for whose sake we take all this trouble--upon
my honor it's a shame."

"It is a shame, Captain, and I say here's one," placing his hand upon
his heart, "of the right kidney. By the holy William, there is."

"We're all so, your worship," replied Sharpe, "and sure every one knows
it--but, plaise your honor, what's to be done about Harman?"

"Why, prosecute him for the murder of course."

"But then," said one of them, "sure Harman didn't murder him,
Captain--among ourselves, it was all accident."

M'Clutchy seemed surprised at this, and after hearing their individual
opinions, which indeed, conflicted very much, some positively asserting
that he did, and others that he did not, murder the man, he began to
view the matter in a somewhat different and more cautious light. He
mused for some time; however, and after a second and more deliberate
investigation, finding that there were two for the murder and only one
against it, he at length took their informations, resolving to bring the
matter to trial at all hazards. The warrant for Harmon's apprehension
was accordingly issued, and entrusted to a dozen of the most resolute
fellows in his corps; who so far enabled our magistrate to fulfil his
intention, that they lodged his enemy in the county prison that very
night.

The next morning, when reading the papers, our Captain was not a little
surprised at reading in one of them an advertisement to the following
effect:

"To the public--found, in the office of Mr. Solomon M'Slime, a Bank
of Ireland Note, of large amount. The person losing it may have it by
giving a proper description of same, and paying the expenses of this
advertisement. N. B.--It is expected, as the loser of the note must be
in affluent circumstances, that he will, from principles of Christian
sympathy, contribute, or enable some Christian friend to contribute, a
moderate donation to some of our greatest public charities. Thus will
that which at t