washed, and of
that Semitic outline and expression by no means uncommon in Connaught,
dark flashing eyes, an aquiline nose, and a wide expressive mouth.
Dismounted from his steed and placed up against the wall, the decently
dressed and well-spoken man, propped up on his crutches, would have
been thought rather an object of charitable interest than of distrust,
if not of fear.

This poor and apparently helpless man is a popular speaker and
lecturer--one who does not deliver his harangues in high places, but
rides on his donkey from village to village, spreading the doctrines
now acceptable to the rural population. By the upper classes he is
abhorred as a specially obnoxious and pestilent person. He, on the
other hand, considers himself oppressed. He was a National
Schoolmaster, but got into a scrape about a threatening letter, which,
it is fair to state, was not completely brought home to him. However,
he lost his place. In the hope that he might be reinstated he passed a
science and art examination, but he fared no better, and then found
that the trade of a popular agitator was the most congenial one he
could pursue. He is also an itinerant scribe, writing letters for
people who cannot write, making aggrieved people aware of the full
extent of their grievance, and assisting them to send furious letters
to the smaller local newspapers, concerning which I hesitate to
express any opinion, lest the readers of the _Daily News_ should think
they had stumbled upon the Commination Service.

The bright-eyed, flexible-mouthed _cul-de-jatte_ was firmly planted
against a stone wall, when his eye caught the figures of the two
gentlemen talking to Mr. Drinkwater's quarrymen. Immediately the eye
before-mentioned was aflame, and in sonorous tones the owner
"war-r-r-ned" the foremen and workmen from holding any converse with
Mr. Charles George Mahon, whom he addressed personally as "a
rack-renting landlord," and otherwise held up to scorn and derision.
Perched on his crutches, the cripple defied him, and poured out a
torrent of eloquence on "the fiery dthragon of hunger" and other
direful creatures, including landlords, which would have set at
defiance Canon Dwyer's "exploded shaft of Greek philosophy." The scene
afforded, at least to many there present, as much amusement as
astonishment. That a nephew of a county member should be publicly
attacked before a large number of people and be compelled to hear them
"war-r-r-ned" not to bu