ness was accompanied with
all the clatter that might be expected to attend such an affair; and
when the eatables had been tolerably well demolished, O'Hara stood up
in the midst of his guests and said he should propose to them a toast,
which he knew all the boys would fill their glasses for, and that was,
to drink the health of the King, and long life to him, for seeing into
the rights of the thing, and doing "such a power" for them, and "more
power to his elbow."--This toast was prefaced by a speech to his
friends and neighbours upon the hardships of tithe in particular,
spiced with the laste taste in life of politics in general; wherein the
Repeal of the Union and Daniel O'Connell cut no inconsiderable figure;
yet in the midst of the rambling address, certain glimpses of good
sense and shrewd observation might be caught; and the many and powerful
objections he advanced against the impost that was to be "extinct" so
soon, were put forward with a force and distinctness that were worthy
of a better speaker, and might have been found difficult to reply to by
a more accustomed hand. He protested that he thought he had lived long
enough when he had witnessed in his own life-time two such national
benefits as the Catholic Emancipation Bill and the Abolition of Tithes.
O'Hara further declared, he was the happiest man alive that day only in
the regard "of one thing, and that was, that his reverence, Father Hely
(the priest) was not there amongst them;" and, certainly, the absence
of the pastor on an occasion of festivity in the house of a snug
farmer, is of rare occurrence in Ireland. "But you see," said O'Hara,
"whin his rivirince heerd what it was we wor goin' to do, he thought it
would be purtier on his part for to have nothin' whatsomivir to do with
it, in hand, act, or part; and, indeed, boys, that shews a great deal
of good breedin' in Father Hely."

This was quite agreed to by the company; and, after many cheers for
O'Hara's speech, and some other toasts pertinent to the occasion, the
health of O'Hara, as founder of the feast, with the usual addenda of
long life, prosperity, etc. to him and his, was drunk, and then
preparations were entered Into for proceeding with the ceremony of the
funeral.

"I believe we have nothing to wait for now," said O'Hara, "since you
won't have any more to drink, boys; so let us set about it at once, and
make a clane day's work of it."

"Oh, we're not quite ready yit," said Larry Laniga