sion passed over the dark grim features of her
husband. "Did I give them lave?" he replied; "well, indeed, you may take
your davy, I did. Why would I refuse a dacent gintleman, and a friend of
Mogue Moylan's lave to shoot? Poor dacent Mogue, too, that loves thruth
and religion so well--ha! ha! ha!--whisht!--here's some one."

The words were scarcely uttered, when our friends, M'Carthy and Mogue,
made their appearance in the caretaker's house, both evidently in a
fatigued state, especially M'Carthy, who had not been so well accustomed
to travel over mountain scenery as his companion.

"Well, blessed be God that we have got the roof of a house over us at
last!" exclaimed Mogue. "Frank Finnerty, how are you? an' Vread, achora,
not forgettin' you--my hand to you both, but we're lost--especially this
gentleman, Mr. M'Carthy--a great friend of Mr. O'Driscol's and Procthor
Parcel's--but a betther man than either o' them, I hope."

"I am fairly knocked up, I admit," said M'Carthy--"in fact, I am more
jaded than I ever was in my life."

"Take a chair, sir," said Finnerty; "you are welcome at all events,
and I am glad to see you, or any friend of Mogue's; take this chair,
sir--and--here, Mogue, do you take a stool; you must be both in a sad
state, sure enough."

"Thank you, Frank," replied Mogue, "oh, then, bad cess to it for a dirty
mist--God pardon me for cursin' the poor mist though, for sure it wasn't
it's fault, the crathur of a mist we oughn't to curse anything that
God has made, but indeed I'm a great sinner that way, God forgive me;
howandever as I was sayin', only for it afther all, Mr. Francis, it's
atin' your comfortable dinner, or rayther drinkin' your fine wine you'd
be now at Mr. Purcel's illigant table, instead of bein' here as you are,
however, sure it's good to have a house over our heads any way."

Finnerty and his wife heaped more turf on the fire, and the poor
woman, with that kind spirit of hospitality and sympathy for which her
countrywomen are so remarkable, told them that they must necessarily
be hungry, and said she would lose no time in providing them with
refreshment.

"Many thanks," replied M'Carthy, "it is not refreshment, but rest we
require; we have had more refreshments of every kind with us than he
could use, and it is well we were so provident, otherwise we never would
or could have reached even this house alive. Such a day I have never
spent--we have done nothing but wade through this d--