d you'll appear quite
another man in the mornin', plaise God!"

I did not awake the next morning till ten o'clock, when I found the sun
shining full into the room. I accordingly dressed myself partially, and
I say partially--for I was rather surprised to find an unexpected chasm
in my wardrobe; neither my hat, coat, nor waistcoat being forthcoming.
But I immediately made myself easy, by supposing that my kind companion
had brought them to be brushed. Yet I relapsed into something more than
surprise when I saw my fellow-traveler's redoubtable jacket lying on the
seat of a chair, and her hare's-skin cap on the top of it. My misgivings
now were anything but weak; nor was I at all improved, either in my
religion or philosophy, when, on calling up the landlady I heard that my
two companions had set out that morning at four o'clock. I then inquired
about my clothes, but all to no purpose; the poor landlady knew nothing
about them: which, in fact, was the case; but she told me that the old
one brushed them before she went away, saying that they were ready
for me to put on whenever I wanted them. "Well," said I, "she has made
another man of me." The landlady desired me to try if I had my purse;
and I found that the kind creature had certainly spared my purse, but
showed no mercy at all to what it contained, which was one pound in
paper, and a few shillings in silver, the latter, however, she left me.
I had now no alternative but to don the jacket and the hare's-skin cap,
which when I had done, with as bad a grace and as mortified a visage
as ever man dressed himself with, I found I had not the slightest
encouragement to throw my eye over the uniform gravity of my appearance,
as I used to do in the black, for, alas! that which I was proudest of,
viz. the clerical cut which it bestowed upon me was fairly gone--I had
now more the appearance of a poacher than a priest.

[Illustration: PAGE 818-- In this trim did I return to my friends]

In this trim did I return to my friends--a goose stripped of my
feathers; a dupe beknaved and beplundered--having been almost starved
to death in the "island," and nearly cudgelled by one of the priests. As
soon as I crossed the threshold at home, the whole family were on their
knees to receive my blessing, there being a peculiar virtue in the Lough
Derg blessing. The next thing I did, after giving them an account of
the manner in which I was plundered and stripped, was to make a due
distribution