n divils out of me, which he should get
printed at the printing-press of the blessed Columba, and should send me
through all Ireland to sell the copies, the profits of which would go
towards the support of the holy society for casting out unclane spirits,
to which he himself belonged. Well, the people showed that they were
plased by a loud shout, and went away longing for the next Sunday when I
was to be presented to them without a divil in me. Five times the next
week did I go to the priest's house, to be read to, and be sprinkled, and
have cloths put upon me, in order that the work of casting out the last
divil, which it seems was stronger than all the rest, might be made
smooth and aisy, and on the Saturday I came to have the last divil cast
out, and found his riverince in full canonicals, seated in his aisy
chair. 'Daughter,' said he when he saw me, 'the work is nearly over.
Now kneel down before me, and I will make the sign of the cross over your
forehead, and then you will feel the last and strongest of the divils,
which have so long possessed ye, go out of ye through your eyes, as I
expect you will say to the people assembled in the chapel to-morrow.' So
I put myself on my knees before his reverence, who after muttering
something to himself, either in Latin or Shanna Gailey--I believe it was
Latin, said, 'Look me in the face, daughter!' Well, I looked his
reverence in the face, and there I saw his nose looking so large, red,
and inviting that I could not resist the temptation, and before his
reverence could make the sign of the cross, which doubtless would have
driven the divil out of me, I made a spring at it, and seizing hold of it
with forefinger and thumb, pulled hard at it. Hot and inctious did it
feel. Oh, the yell that his reverence gave! However, I did not let go
my hold, but kept pulling at the nose, till at last to avoid the torment,
his reverence came tumbling down upon me, causing me by his weight to
fall back upon the floor. At the yell which he gave, and at the noise of
the fall, in came rushing his reverence's housekeeper and stable-boy, who
seeing us down on the floor, his reverence upon me and my hand holding
his reverence's nose, for I felt loth to let it go, they remained in
astonishment and suspense. When his reverence, however, begged them, for
the Virgin's sake, to separate him from the divil of a woman, they ran
forward, and having with some difficulty freed his reverence's nose from