spirits up, an' I'll furnish you wid every yarrib in Europe, from the
nettle to the rose."

"Don't despair, my good girl," said the Doctor, addressing Peggy. "I
hope, I trust, that he may recover; but he must be kept easy and quiet."

"May the blessing of God, sir, light down on you for the same words,"
replied Peggy, in a voice tremulous, with gratitude and joy.

"Are you done wid him, Docthor?" said old Reillaghan.

"At present," replied the Doctor, "I can do nothing more for him; but I
shall see him early to-morrow morning."

"Bekase, sir," continued the worthy man, "here's Darby More, who's
afflicted with a comflamboration, or some sich thing, inwardly, an' if
you should ase him, sir, I'd pay the damages, whatever they might be."

The Doctor smiled slightly. "Darby's complaint," said he, "is beyond
my practice; there is but one cure for it, and that is, if I have
any skill, a little of what's in the bottle here, taken, as our
prescriptions sometimes say, 'when the patient is inclined for it.'"

"By my sou--sanctity, Docthor," said Darby, "you're a man of skill, any
how, an' that's well known, sir. Nothin', as Father Hoolaghan says, but
the sup of whiskey does this sarra of a configuration good. It rises the
wind off o' my stomach, Docthor!"

"It does, Darby, it does. Now let all be peace and quietness," continued
the Doctor: "take away a great part of this fire, and don't attempt
to remove him to any other bed until I desire you. I shall call again
tomorrow morning early."

The Doctor's attention to his patient was unremitting; everything that
human skill, joined to long experience and natural talent, could do to
restore the young man to his family was done; and in the course of a
few weeks the friends of Keillaghan had the satisfaction of seeing him
completely out of danger.

Mike declared, after his recovery, that though incapable of motion on
the mountains, he was not altogether insensible to what passed around
him. The loud tones of their conversation he could hear. The oath which
young M'Kenna uttered in a voice so wild and exalted, fell clearly on
his ear, and he endeavored to contradict it, in order that he might be
secured and punished in the event of his death. He also said; that the
pain he suffered in the act of being conveyed home, occasioned him to
groan feebly; but that the sobs, and cries, and loud conversation of
those who surrounded him, prevented his moans from being heard. It is
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