bench to study his HUMANITIES, as he said, at the college of
Maynooth; but after he had gone through his course of Humanities, he
determined to be a soldier instead of a priest.

GLOSSARY 19. FLAM.

--Short for flambeau.

GLOSSARY 20. BARRACK-ROOM.

--Formerly it was customary, in gentlemen's houses in Ireland, to fit up
one large bedchamber with a number of beds for the reception of
occasional visitors. These rooms were called Barrack-rooms.

GLOSSARY 21. AN INNOCENT

--in Ireland, means a simpleton, an idiot.

GLOSSARY 22. THE CURRAGH

--is the Newmarket of Ireland.

GLOSSARY 23. THE CANT

--The auction.

GLOSSARY 24. AND SO SHOULD CUT HIM OFF FOR EVER BY LEVYING A FINE,

AND SUFFERING A RECOVERY TO DOCK THE ENTAIL.--The English reader may
perhaps be surprised at the extent of Thady's legal knowledge, and at
the fluency with which he pours forth law-terms; but almost every poor
man in Ireland, be he farmer, weaver, shopkeeper, ox steward, is,
besides his other occupations, occasionally a lawyer. The nature of
processes, ejectments, custodiams, injunctions, replevins, etc., is
perfectly known to them, and the terms as familiar to them as to any
attorney. They all love law. It is a kind of lottery, in which every
man, staking his own wit or cunning against his neighbour's property,
feels that he has little to lose, and much to gain.

'I'll have the law of you, so I will!' is the saying of an Englishman
who expects justice. 'I'll have you before his honour,' is the threat of
an Irishman who hopes for partiality. Miserable is the life of a justice
of the peace in Ireland the day after a fair, especially if he resides
near a small town. The multitude of the KILT (KILT does not mean KILLED,
but hurt) and wounded who come before his honour with black eyes or
bloody heads is astonishing: but more astonishing is the number of those
who, though they are scarcely able by daily labour to procure daily
food, will nevertheless, without the least reluctance, waste six or
seven hours of the day lounging in the yard or court of a justice of the
peace, waiting to make some complaint about--nothing. It is impossible
to convince them that TIME IS MONEY. They do not set any value upon
their own time, and they think that others estimate theirs at less than
nothing. Hence they make no scruple of telling a justice of the peace
a story of an hour long about a tester (sixpence); and if he grows
impatien