ed recipients.

These people _will_ believe anything. But who tells them this? And why
do not the clergy undeceive them?

A final Black-mouth must be quoted. He said that the seller of the
standing grass preferred the heretical bid, although lower, "because
he felt more sure of the money," and pointing across the triangular
square, yclept the Diamond, said:--"All those corner-men are Home
Rulers. You never see a Unionist idling the day away at
street-corners. We have no Protestant corner-boys in Donegal, nor
anywhere else, so far as I know." The townsfolk are fairly
industrious, that is, when compared with the people of Southern Irish
towns, but there is a residuum--a Home Rule residuum. It sometimes
happens that jaded men, worn out with overwork, are recommended to go
to some quiet place and to do absolutely nothing. They can't do
nothing, they don't know how to begin. They should go to Donegal. The
place is silent as the tomb, and if they would learn to do nothing
they will there find many eminent professors of the science, who,
having devoted to it the study of a lifetime, have attained a virtuoso
proficiency.

Donegal, August 3rd.

No. 57.--BAREFOOTED AND DILATORY.

"The Ballyshannon foundered on the coast of Cariboo, And down in
fathoms many went the captain and his crew. Down went the owners,
greedy men whom hope of gain allured. O, dry the starting tear, for
they were heavily insured."

And thereby hangs a tale.

Professor Crawford, of Trinity College, Dublin, says that when walking
down Regent Street, London, with William Allingham, then editor of
_Fraser's Magazine_, and a native of this Donegal town, the pair met
Charles Dickens, who advanced with beaming countenance, and taking
both Allingham's hands in his own, said in a hearty voice:

"Well done, Ballyshannon!"

This was in allusion to a recent article written by the _Fraser_
editor, who among his intimate friends and brother litterateurs was
playfully named after his birthplace. W.S. Gilbert was especially fond
of the sonorous appellation, and in the above-quoted Bab Ballad, his
gem of gems, named the ship Ballyshannon in remembrance of Allingham.

The Ballyshannon folks are "going to" erect a memorial to Allingham,
of whose poems they have often heard. They are "going to" advertise
their town, and make its beauties known to the world--some day. They
are "going to" charter a steam dredger, and so improve the harbour,
which is dangerou