rotestant
clargy; our Dinis was at the head of them, wid a three-cocked hat, an'
a wig upon him; he was cuttin' up beef an' mutton at the rate of a
weddin', an' dhrinkin' wine in metherfuls."

"'Musha, Dinis,' says myself, 'what's all this for?'

"'Why,' says he, 'it's all for the good of the church an' the faithful.
I'm now Archbishop of the county,' says he; 'the Protestants are all
banished, an' we are in their place.'

"The sorra one o' myself all this time but thought he was a priest
still; so says I, 'Dinny, you're a wantin' to anoint Paddy Diarmud,
who's given over, an' if you don't I make haste, you won't overtake
him?'

"'He must wait then till mornin',' says Dinny; 'or if he chooses to
die against my will, an' the will o' the church, let him take the
quensequences. Were wealthy now.'

"I was so much frightened at the kind of voice that he spoke to me in,
that I awoke; an' sure enough, the first thing I heard was the fizzin'
o' bacon on the pan. I wondered! who could be up so early, an' puttin'
my head through the door, there was Dinny busy at it, wid an ould knife
in one hand, an' an iron skiver in the other imitatin' a fork.

"'What are you doin' so early, Dinny?' says I.

"'I'm practisin',' says he.

"'What for?' says I.

"'Oh, I'm practisin',' says he, back again, 'go to bed; I'm practisin'
for the church, an' the Station that's to be in Pether Rafferty's
to-day.'

"Now, Dinny, between you an' me, that dhrame didn't come for nothin'. So
give the gorsoon his way, an' if he chooses to be a gintleman, why let
him; he'll be the more honor to thim that reared him."

"Thrue for you, indeed,--Mave; he always had a high spirit ever since
he was intinded for the robes, and would have his own way and will in
whatever he took into his head, right or wrong, as cleverly as if he had
the authority for it."

"An' so he ought, seein' he wasn't to be slavin' at the spade, like the
rest o' the family. The ways o' them that have great larnin' as he has,
isn't like other people's ways--they must be humored, and have their own
will, otherwise what 'ud they be betther than their neighbors?"

The other arrangements laid down by Denis, touching his determination
not to be addressed so familiarly by his brothers and sisters, were next
discussed in this conversation, and, of course, the same prejudice in
his favor was manifested by his indulgent parents. The whole code of his
injunctions was subsequently disclosed t