began to feel incapable of continuing his toil. The son bore it better;
but whenever a cold rush of stormy rain came over them, both were
compelled to stand with their sides against it, and their heads turned,
so as that the ear almost rested back upon the shoulder in order to
throw the rain off their faces. Of each, however, that cheek which was
exposed to the rain and storm was beaten into a red hue; whilst the
other part of their faces was both pale and hunger-pinched.

The father paused to take breath, and, supported by his spade, looked
down upon the sheltered inland which, inhabited chiefly by Prostestants
and Presbyterians, lay rich and warm-looking under him.

"Why, thin," he exclaimed to the son--a lad about fifteen,--"sure I know
well I oughtn't to curse yez, anyway, you black set! an yit, the Lord
forgive me my sins, I'm almost timpted to give yez a volley, an' that
from my heart out! Look at thim, Jimmy agra--only look at the black
thieves! how warm an' wealthy they sit there in our ould possessions,
an' here we must toil till our fingers are worn to the stumps, upon this
thievin' bent. The curse of Cromwell on it!--You might as well ax the
divil for a blessin', as expect anything like a dacent crop out of
it.--Look at thim two ridges!--such a poor sthring o' praties is in
it!--one here an' one there--an' yit we must turn up the whole ridge for
that same! Well, God sind the time soon, when the right will take place,
Jimmy agra!"

"An' doesn't Pasthorini say it? Sure whin Twenty-five comes, we'll have
our own agin: the right will overcome the might--the bottomless pit will
be locked--ay, double: boulted, if St. Pettier gets the kays, for he's
the very boy that will accommodate the heretics wid a warm corner; an'
yit, faith, there's: many o' thim that myself 'ud put in a good word