the chaise ordered to be at the inn door in half an hour, the time assigned to visit King Cormac's chapel. Meantime, the master of the Kilcoleman chaise undertook to inform the host of the Star that his horses would not be wanting; and when the travellers returned from their antiquarian visit, they found all ready for their departure. While the light luggage was removing into the new vehicle, the appearance of that vehicle, its horses, and driver, were a source of affected entertainment to the disappointed landlord and his satellites.. "Barney, that's a nate article of a chay," observed Tim. "Troth, I would not wonder if it was ould Cormac Mac Coleman's travelling landau, when he went the pilgrimage to Holy-cross. دو "Faith, Tim, lad, you're not much out, I believe; for there's a crown on it, shure enough, which shews it be longed to th' ould kings of Munster, any how, King Flann or Brien Borru, may be." "Why then, for all that, Barney, I wisht I had all the chickens that ever was hatch'd in it, grand as it is. And look at the garans, * Sir; Och! but their grate bastes, and warranted not to draw. I'll engage they'd rather die than run, and no ways skittish, that's certain, any way." The owner of this equipage, against which so many sarcasms were launched, was hitherto coolly rubbing down his horses with a whisp of straw; and singing, or rather humming, "I am a rake and a rambling boy, He now paused, however, to observe, "The cattle's shurely not so fine as them was shot in the mail, near Kilworth, Mr. Barney Heffernan, but they are good mountain cattle, for all that, Poor hack horses. and will take the gentlemen better through the Galties, and safer too, than handsomer bastes, plase Jasus!" The former part of this observation had caused a very obvious revulsion in the colour of Mr. Heffernan's face, who, drawing some straws from between the wheels of the chaise, said, in a conciliating voice, " I'm glad to see you about the world again, Ownywhen did you set up driver?" "A little after the tithe-proctor's business in the murdering glen below, in the county of Waterford," replied Owny, significantly. Barney Heffernan slunk away, and no further sarcasm was launched against Owny's set-out, which both the gentlemen stood for some minutes examining with curiosity; the Commodore wiping with his handkerchief the dust from the pannel on which the coronet, alluded to by one of the drivers, was visible, surmounting a defaced crest and armo rial bearing. The chaise was indeed of a very singular and antique build; low, angular, with a projecting roof. The large windows, which once perhaps entitled it to the appellation of a glass coach, were now partly filled up with wooden pannels; and through the rents of the coarse check modern lining, remnants of crimson velvet, and rich, but thread-bare livery lace, spoke its former gentility. The travellers had proceeded some miles from Cashel, in a silence which the younger seemed little inclined to break, when the falling down of an old green silk blind roused him from his reverie. "This curious old vehicle," he observed," doubtless belonged to some noble family. Did you perceive a baron's coronet on the side pannel, and a crest beneath it ?" "Yes, a dexter arm, issuing out of a cloud, and holding a naked sword, all proper, with the motto, Vigueur de dessus-the cognizance and motto of some Norman adventurer, who formerly ravaged this country, and who, like more modern victors, took the sanction of heaven for their deeds of violence, and believed, or affected to believe, that "Dieu est toujours pour les gros bataillons." "It is the motto and crest of the Fitzadelm family, of the present Marquis of Dunore, the representative of that family," said De Vere. A silence of a few minutes followed this observation, and the Commodore then carelessly added-" The Fitzadelms! a branch of the far-spreading Geraldines? Yes, they got their portion of this fair province by grant from Henry the Second, to whom they were SEWERS, as the Ormond family were BUTLERS; and shared with Hamo de Valois, Philip of Worcester, William de Barri, and other Norman adventurers, the princely palatinate of the Macarthies |