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to be. Och! Musha, English barracks and a mail-coach road in Dangan-naCarthy! When in Florence M'Carthy's time, the English sheriff daren't set his foot in the place, but the country round rose to oppose him; and all this now in respect of the jobs, and the patronage, and the protectees, taxing the country: and before that road is finished, which it never will, many a false oath will be sworn, and many a sowl lost, and many a poor man's cattle be driven; and for all that, I remember me the portrieve's father, ould Paddy Crawley, herd to M'Carthy, of Castle M'Carthy, there. beyont, that's the late ould titular Earl of Clancare. And now, there's Mount Crawley, płaze your lordship, on the top of that green sod hill, once called the Thane's heap, in regard of a Macarthy was slain there in an engagement between them and the Fitzadelms, about

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taking a prey of cattle, that's when the Macarthies' greatness overshadowed all the southern chiefs; and they made that day an elegant retrait through the pass of Mashanaglass, there below, to their own castle, as will be seen in my genealogical history. Sorrow much the retrait of Xenophon was in comparaisment to that of Mashanaglass: but now, Dioul! its the reign of the CRAWLEYS.”’

At the gates of the principal entrance to Mount Crawley O'Leary took his leave, observing, that he had made a vow in the year of the rebellion never to cross the threshold of a Crawley, "till they had no longer a threshold to crass, plaze your Lordship." At the word Lordship,' the Commodore put his forefinger to his lips, and O'Leary, recovering himself, added, "your honor I mane." He then retreated, leaving him, whom he persisted in believing Lord Adelm, persuaded, that among his virtues, the "excellent quality of dis

cretion" could not be numbered; and that this affectionate, but inconsiderate person, was the last to be trusted with a secret, in which his own strong and ungoverned feelings had an interest. He had in the course of his desultory and incoherent conversation betrayed circumstances detrimental to the family honour of the Fitzadelms, and which had long slept in oblivion; that Baron Fitzadelm had been reduced by his distress, and influenced by his brother, to conceal the existence of his son, in order to raise money on the little that was left of his estate; that he had afterwards yielded to the story suggested by his brother; that this unfortunate boy was not his son, but the substituted child of his first nurse, to whom O'Leary's wife had succeeded; that the boy had afterwards been sent to the wilds of Kerry, to his foster father, to be kept for some sinister purpose out of the way; that immediately after his

father's death he was drowned by accident (though some told a different tale); that the herald's office had for some years after the death of the father and son refused to grant Gerald Fitzadelm the title of Baron Fitzadelm: all these circumstances, once the common topic of conversation in the province, had now. died away, with the greater part of the generation who had witnessed them; and the details were only known to the few persons interested in their occurrence, and still surviving: these were the superior of the friars of St. John's, the old baccah of Lis-nasleugh, and, above all, the fosterer of the deserted and persecuted heir of Fitzadelm, Terence Oge O'Leary.

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