f one of the Seven deadly
sins."

"Ha, ha, ha!--Faix, an' Invy is one o' them sure enough; but a joke is
a joke in the mane time. A pleasant gintleman is the same Father Murray,
but yer Reverence is too deep for him in the jokin' line, for all that.
Ethen, Sir, but it's you that gave ould Cokely the keen cut about his
religion--ha, ha, ha! Myself laughed till I was sick for two days afther
it--the ould thief!"

"Eh?--Did you hear that, Dominick? Are you sure that's the poteen,
Ellish? Ay, an' the best of it all was, that his pathrun, Lord
Foxhunter, was present. Come, Dominick, try that--it never seen wather.
But the best of it all was--"

--"'Well, Father Kavanagh,' said he, 'who put you into the church?
Now,' said he, 'you'll come over me wid your regular succession from St.
Peter, but I won't allow that.'

"'Why, Mr. Cokely,' says I, back to him, 'I'll giye up the succession;'
says I, 'and what is more, I'll grant that you have been called by the
Lord, and that I have not; but the Lord that called you,' says I, 'was
Lord Foxhunter.' Man, you'd tie his Lordship wid a cobweb, he laughed so
heartily.

"'Bravo, Father Kavanagh,' said he. 'Cokely, you're bale,' said he; 'and
upon my honor you must both dine with me to-day, says he--and capital
claret he keeps."

"Your health, Father Kavanagh, an' God spare you to us! Hah! wather! Oh,
the divil a taste itself did the same stuff see! Why, thin, I think your
Reverence an' me's about an age. I bleeve. I'm a thrifle oulder; but I
don't bear it so well as you do. The family, you see, an' the childhre,
an' the cares o' the world, pull me down: throth, the same family's a
throuble to me. I wish I had them all settled safe, any way."

"What do you intind to do with them, Dominick?"

"In throth, that's what brought me to yer Reverence. I've one
boy--Jimmy--a smart chap entirely, an' he has taken it into his head to
go as a poor scholar to Munster. He's fond o' the larnin', there's not
a doubt o' that, an' small blame to him to be sure; but then again, what
can I do? He's bint on goin', an' I'm not able to help him, poor fellow,
in any shape; so I made bould to see yer Reverence about it, in hopes
that you might be able to plan out something for him more betther nor
I could do. I have the good wishes of the neighbors, and indeed of the
whole parish, let the thing go as it may."

"I know that, Dominick, and for the same rason well have a collection at
the three althars. I