seen you're but young in the business yet."

"This is my first night to be out," replied the youth.

"Well, then," rejoined our friend, "it's in the expectation of meetin'
an enemy, especially some one that's _marked_."

"An' what would they do if they did?"

"_Do_? said the other; "_do for him!_. If they met sich a one, they'd
take care his supper wouldn't cost him much."

"Blood alive!" exclaimed the young fellow. "I'm afeard this is a bad
business."

"Faith, an' if it is, it's only beginnin'," said the other, "but whether
good or bad the counthry requires it, an' the Millstone must be got rid
of."

"What's the Millstone?"

"The Protestant church. The man that won't join us to put it down, must
be looked upon and treated as an enemy to his country--that is, if he is
a Catholic."

"I have no objection to that," replied the youth, "but I don't like to
see lives taken or blood shed; murdher's awful."

"You must set it down, then," replied the other, "that both will happen,
ay, an' that you must yourself shed blood and take life when it