You wouldn't have
him show the same favor to Papists that he would show to good, honest
Protestants, that are staunch and. loyal to Church and State--by Jabers,
that would be nice work! Do you think a man's not to show favor to his
own side, either as a magistrate or agent?--faith that's good!'

"'And I'll tell you more,' said another of them, addressing John
M'Loughlin, 'do you think, that if he dared to put Papishes on a level
with us, that we'd suffer it? By Gog, you're out of it if you do--we
know a horse of another color, my buck.'

"'To whom do you address such insolent language as this?' asked the
young man, 'you are here in execution of your duty, and you had better
confine yourself to that.'

"'To you, my buck, I address it, and to any Papish that doesn't like
it--and if I'm here to discharge my duty, I'll discharge it,' and he
shook his head with insolence as he spoke; 'an' what's more, I'm
afeard of no man--and I'll discharge my duty as I like, that's another
thing--as I like to discharge it. Ha! d--n me, I'm not to be put down by
a parcel of Priests and Papishes, if they were ten times as bad as they
are.'

"'You are a low ruffian,' replied the young man, 'far beneath my
resentment or my notice; and it is precisely such scoundrels as
you, ignorant and brutal, who bring shame and infamy upon religion
itself--and are a multiplied curse to the country.'

"'Very well, my buck,' persisted this ferocious bigot, 'may be the day
will come when we'll make you remember this traisen, and swally it too.
How would you like to get a touch of the wreckers, my buck?--an' by
Jabers, take care that you're not in for a lick. A lease! d--n me but
it would be a nice thing to give the like o' you a lease! None o' your
sort, my buck, will get that trick, so long as loyal M'Clutchy's on the
property.'

"Father Roche having taken the young man's arm, led him away; wishing
to avoid any further altercation with such persons, and immediately
afterwards they set about completing an inventory of all the property,
machinery, etc., in the establishment.

"'There was one expression used by that man,' I observed, when we
got out again upon the Castle Cumber road, 'which I do not properly
understand; it was, 'how should you like to get a touch of the
wreckers?'

"'The wreckers, sir,' replied old M'Loughlin, 'are a set of men such as
that fellow we have just been speaking to--brimful of venom and hatred
against Catholics and their r