laining of getting nothing, But it's
damned hard when the doctor won't take what's offered to him, when we've
had to work early and late to get it for him. Would you believe it now,
Mr. Flanagan, he's refused to certify half of the ones we've found for
him?"

"Do you tell me that?" said Flanagan.

"Throwing good money away," said the sergeant; "and to-day, when I took
him to see that boy that does be living in Finnegan's, which would have
put two guineas into his pocket, on account of being outside his own
district, instead of saying 'thank you' like any ordinary man would,
nothing would do him only to be cursing and swearing. 'It's a crime,'
says he, 'and a scandal,' says he, 'and it's swearing away the liberty
of a poor man,' says he; and more to that. Now I ask you, Mr. Flanagan,
where's the crime and where's the scandal?"

"There's none," said Flanagan. "What harm would it have done the lad to
be put away for a bit?"

"That's what I said to the doctor. What's more, they'd have let the boy
out in a fortnight, as soon as they knew what way it was with him. I
told the doctor that, but 'crime,' says he, and 'scandal,' says he, and
'conspiracy,' says he. Be damn, but to hear him talk you'd think I was
trying to take two guineas out of his pocket instead of trying to put it
in, and there's the thanks I get for going out of my way to do the
best I could for him so as he'd rest content in this place and let Dr.
Farelly stay where he is to be cutting the legs off the Germans."

"It's hard, so it is," said Flanagan, "and I'm sorry for you, sergeant.
But that's the way things is. As I was saying to you once before and
maybe oftener, the English is queer people, and the more you'd be trying
to please them the less they like it. It's not easy to deal with them,
and that's a fact."

V. THE BANDS OF BALLYGUTTERY

The Wolfe Tone Republican Club has its headquarters at Ballyguttery. Its
members, as may be guessed, profess the strongest form of Nationalism.
There are about sixty of them. The Loyal True-Blue Invincibles are an
Orange Lodge. They also meet in Ballyguttery. There are between seventy
and eighty Loyal Invincibles. There are also in the village ten adult
males who are not members of either the club or the lodge. Six of these
are policemen. The other four are feeble people of no account, who
neglect the first duty of good citizens and take no interest in
politics.

Early in September the Wolfe Tone Republica