were
suspended from a ring over the tester, and throwing them from his
hand, passed them through the ring thrice, saying--'No human being
could do that.'

"'And yet, replied the lady, it is possible that people may say I did
it myself. Can you give me no better token?'

"Then the spectre caught her by the wrist, exclaiming--'Unto thee
shall this be a token!'--when the sinews of that wrist immediately
shrivelled up, and the apparition, laying his hand on an escritoire,
vanished!

"Captain Georges instantly awoke; and his lady asking him whether he
had seen or heard any thing, he replied in the negative; but the
sinews of her wrist were seared and shrunken ever after, and the
impression of a hand was burnt into the escritoire.[15]

[15] This escritoire is said to be in the possession of Lady
Clauwilliam, at Giltown, her father having married the
sister and co-heiress of Lady Beresford; and a picture
was lately existing, and may he now, at Catherine Grove
(the seat of Richard Georges Meredith, Esq., her grandson
on Capt. Georges' side), exhibiting Lady B. with a broad
black ribbon round the wrist, which the apparition of Sir
Tristram is said to have scorched.

"Shortly afterwards accounts arrived, identifying the hour of Sir
Tristram's decease with that in which his apparition had appeared to
his widow; and she was a second time married to Capt. Georges, with
whom she lived some years, and had four children; but as she
experienced much ill-treatment from him, they parted: he joined his
regiment, and she continued to reside in Ballygawley Castle.

"Some years after this separation, they again became friends. He
returned to reside with her; and in giving birth to their fifth child,
she died, as had been foretold by the apparition.

"The son of Sir Tristram by this lady was Sir Marcus Beresford, who
married the heiress of the estates and title of Le Pen; was created
Baron Beresford and Earl of Tyrone; and was father of George
Beresford, first Marquess of Waterford, the late Right Hon. John
Beresford, William Beresford, late Archbishop of Tuam, Lady Frances
Flood, Lady Araminta Monk, Lady Catherine Jones, Lady Glenawley, and
Lady Betty Cobbe."

(_To be concluded in our next._)

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OLD POETS

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WILL.

Will puts in practice what the will deviseth,
Will e