quensequences. Were wealthy now.'

"I was so much frightened at the kind of voice that he spoke to me in,
that I awoke; an' sure enough, the first thing I heard was the fizzin'
o' bacon on the pan. I wondered! who could be up so early, an' puttin'
my head through the door, there was Dinny busy at it, wid an ould knife
in one hand, an' an iron skiver in the other imitatin' a fork.

"'What are you doin' so early, Dinny?' says I.

"'I'm practisin',' says he.

"'What for?' says I.

"'Oh, I'm practisin',' says he, back again, 'go to bed; I'm practisin'
for the church, an' the Station that's to be in Pether Rafferty's
to-day.'

"Now, Dinny, between you an' me, that dhrame didn't come for nothin'. So
give the gorsoon his way, an' if he chooses to be a gintleman, why let
him; he'll be the more honor to thim that reared him."

"Thrue for you, indeed,--Mave; he always had a high spirit ever since
he was intinded for the robes, and would have his own way and will in
whatever he took into his head, right or wrong, as cleverly as if he had
the authority for it."

"An' so he ought, seein' he wasn't to be slavin' at the spade, like the
rest o' the family. The ways o' them that have great larnin' as he has,
isn't like other people's ways--they must be humored, and have their own