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. To just such a cottage as this (or rather
Payee for no Irishman wou!'d confess to
a cottage) a party was gathered on the night before ‘Ali-Saints’ Eve.’ It was after sundown, aud the door was closed at last against the chill sea-breeze which had blown through it so keenly all day.
‘What wil! ye have for supper the mor- row, Madge?’ said a tall young man, who leaned near the tiny equare of minute panes which wus dignified by the title of window. He addressed his sister, who was dexterous- ly peeling potatoes into a round pot, as she balanced herse'! on a block of turt at his feet,
‘Cen’t ye see yourself that I’m peeling for buteen.t Me’heal? Mother bade Nap- ey bring # quarter stone ‘of flour, ‘There’s no stint for tay or sugar, either, If you or Anthony will cross the terry fora bit of flesh-meat, we should put Halley-eve past in grand style ’ : All-Hallow's Sve is the great festival, or, as they term it, ‘set-night,” of Western Ireland, Asa social period it eomes far before Christmas Day or Kaster Sunday in the estimate of tbe people Most wonderful efforts the people make to pay all dee honors to its observation; ewen the very poorest among them collect their eggs or save up ‘heir pence to procure the upwonted luxury of ‘ white bread’ at this time,
Michael O* Donne) and bis family were accustomed to a scrt of rough pleuty, Their
their father’s death, Michael and his brother Anthony bad found it easy to keep the house in plenty potatoes during the autumn upd winter, and in Indian meal and oaten cakes through the spring and summer. They bad their own milk, butter and eggs; and what cou'd they possibly want more? No- thing, surely, except on * Hallow-Eve ;’ and then a little white flour, and even butcher’s meat, with rice, biscuits, and a handful of nuts, to make up their yearly feast,
‘Ie it the morrow you’.e talking of, Madge ;’ said a yowag man, whose air and dress as well as bis cuperior mode of speech, | prociaimed his superiority to other ore | pan's of the room, ‘Take advice as is | kindly given, and meddle only with pots of | bruteen and scones of boqy,t aad dou’: go | trying charms aud spells on this bleveed | night, Folks do more harm and draw nigher | to danger than they know of by them came | things, as I well kuow. ’ Madge looked up. knife and potato my haud, astonished atthe unusual solemaity of bis tone, and Mighael said:
‘What’s that sou’re saying, Shaun? You’re thinking of some story 1’.! be boun’, | Be aisy Anthony lad; hold your clatter! } Shaun is going to te! us the danger of Ha’-| ley-eve spell=,”’
* No then, indeed and I could not Troth, | Michael, it’s no subject for laughing.’
‘I’m pever Jaughio’ at all, man alive Te!] away ; there’s but ourselves to listen, Put over some sods on tie fire, Anthony. Now. Shaun, we’reall ears,’
But Shauo hung back — his fsce wae where the leapiog light of the peat fire sould not reach it — nor did he aaswer a- word to Michael’s loud demands for his story.’ It wes only when Madge and her mother joized in urging him, and even Anthony had edaed his rcugh pleading, that, seeing he bad no choice but to com- ply he began, spe-kiag in a low, faltering tone, which, however, soon regained its deep and somewhat gruff composure.
‘1 think l’ve told you I was jiving in County Kerry when I was a Jad, far enough from here. My father was keeper to Lord | Ratheonuel, and we had the cosiest house | in the pork My sister was lady’s-maid up | to the Hill ; and oh, but my lady was kind |
to the both of us{ {1 had wonderful learu- | ing for a poor dad, and my lady would come sepping over the grass to our house, carry-| ing books for me with ber own bands. 1
mind I thought myself as grand as the
priest himself, when she wou'd give me the
packets, and promised me more when | had
finished with them, I believe, now, the
angels in heaven can be no better or fairer
than she was.
‘We kept Halley-eve much as ye Co ip these parts, But I don’t rightly know if you hold to a thing I’d heard talked of there. They ead, if at midnight a man took a riddle and some thrashed corn, and opened the two doors of the barn so as the wind swept clear throvgh, then began to winnow the grain, aod gay the pame of the Kyi] One, that you would see the form of her who was to be your wife passing before your eyes.
«Yes, Medge, it was wicked—it was as the sea ie deep, as the spink) out yonder is high. But the tales of the people worried me. Were my books right in cailing such things foolish old wives tales ? or was there a truth and a power in them whiok ail the learning in the world could not shift away or hide? J could oot tell; so I thought I’d prove this night if there was indeed truth io them, or if they were as sbule || and empty as | had read that they weve. Lord Rathconnell’» Coachman lived in a house at the end of the stable-yard. He had only the wife and a pretty wee daughter, a little Gissab{ of eght or nine, Often I’d been at the kennels feeding the dogs, and wee Norah would come to pat their heads, and give her chosen pets some ecraps she had saved for them; and the brutes kuew her right well, and would miod her lightest word. Hers were the prettiest ways Many’s the bit of a basket 1’ve made for her, and muny’s the boat 1’ve cut for her out of the slagh-mara¥* She would stand
*-¢Shaan,” Ivan; Juan (which last is pro- nouced by the Spaviards very much iike the Irish “ Shaun ’) are &ll varieties of the same John.
t ‘ Brateen,’ potatoes mashed with miik and batter.
¢ ‘Boxty,” a kind of bread made of the fibres ot raw potato mixed with flour, ~
“* Spink,’ cliff,
* Stale,” shallow.
“ Gissai:," girl. ** **Slagh-mara,’? the stem of the seaweed;
Dee, 5, 1879. Geptember 19, 1879.
,ofteg fou as thick as x woman's arm.
farm was large, their. cows many; and since,
‘gee her as she wa3 then ?”
| loud,
| When there I saw, standing with the broad | dear!”
CHARLOTTETOWN, PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1871,
a eels A EE serena
watching her father as he etrapped the clothes on the horses, with her echool-bag in her band, aod a black silk handkerchie! (knotted over ber head, Sometimes, if it was in a lonely lane be met her, Wiiliam would iift her on the back of one o the
-be’d sit as easy and as happy as a bird on a high-grown twig.
“Tt was Haliey eve—not such a night as this, blastering and cold as January — but as clear and soft, and the moon nigh to the
bat nail in the kitchen of William’s house.
of getting my fingers on them. the chance was easy found. The kitchen was empty, and the keys hung handy to the
voice said, behind me,
‘Where are you going to-night, Shaun ?
‘To the grain loft or to the meal room? Gr are you going to the barn, aad-—— ‘may I go with you to look after my pigeon? |My white pigeon wii roost in there, and it ‘must not. ©, Shaun dear, catch it for me!’
‘I’m going to the barn, abaska #f and and 1’jj look for the pigeon. Bat 1’m not going yet Sitdowna bit, Is your motker out? Well just sit here on the creepy-stoo), and 1’}] put some big wood on to blaze for us ??
‘ And 80 seyiog, I slipped the keys in my pocket, and we talked away by the five, she telling me of the wonderful shells the coast gaurd’s wife at the poist bad shewn her
and silver, Do you think they are all made of all the old rambows tbat falis into the seat—they look just like that” And then | told her of the boos my lady lent me, How a brave, good keight was angry and black hearted to bis beautifal, innocent wive, because he believed a lie of her; how he forced her to ride one long summer day
on ahead of himself, an¢€ eharged her pot to
full, and the sea like the fair pool down have suffered ’ yonder, IL knew there would be no living| soul in the yard at midnight, The big loft | There was a strange element of poetry and would just do for my evil charm, could [| passion in this man, almost peasant born as get hold of the keys. ‘They were on a|he was. But there runs through the [rish Soj|nature a vein of high-toned feeling for there I went at night failing tosee a chance| whieh we must search ia vain among the And, faith, |
door. I took them down when wee Norah’s |
“And, Shaun, they are all green and gol.~ and stood gaging into the tur!-fire,
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‘feed the dogs, and watch the dumb brates (waiting for her, and longing for her? | Could I meet their eyes—J who had killed ber? And so I came away. His lordship _was rare and kind, and got me this place here with Mr. Heygate. And my lady—
have died; [ think I must have died, | though hearts don’t break as often as some ‘folks say—my lady, she wrote to me two | whole letters as kind and good as herself ‘She knew I suffered. My God! how I
His voice died away in a kind of wall
coarser, blunter, lower classes of Kngiand. It may strike some ears as unpatural that one like*Shaun O’ Donnel! could even dream over * End,’ or be capable of the deep and lasting anguish that had so nearly erushed his life. Years had passed since that ter- rible night, and had borne away with them | somewhbat of the keener edze of his remorse, Icaving a curious, tender self-pity in its stead, Bat now lately this had grown iv- to anguish, unknown, save ia such intense natures as bis, until he could bear it no longer, and he felt he must atter it.’
And Madge? She sat very still, her face hidden im the deep shadow, She ut- tered no word, nor joined in the exclama- tions and expressions of pity and interest, whieh fell from her mother and brothers, Neither she vor O’ Donnell heard their im- port; but the murmur annoyed her, and she silently rose and s'ipped away.
He had risen as he Gnished his recital [t had bursed out all ite leaping glories now, and lay quiet the glowing embers bordered by a ring of pearly ashes, Tho similisude struck him. Youth, gwith its passion. its anguish its keen joys; and the inevitable end, when dull age creeps on, and dims aad deadeus both pain and joy iato grayness and coldness, Was it ———— for him? Was this fresh command the new born
dare to speak to him, but ride on in silence ; how three robbers came on him, and she | screamed to let him know the danger; and how he vanquished them, and then blamed | ber for ber disobedience in speaking the word even to warn him
‘ Ah!’ said Norah, ‘* sure his anger had darkened his heart and his eyes, And she dido’t koow why he was that wild with ber? Then, if I had been her, 1’d bave c'ung tight, tight hold of bis arms, and made bim tell me and love me again. Did he love ber again, Shaun ?
‘And J told the child that he had loved the whole time, hard and hot; and how, when he was wounded ard half kiiled, he found out all his thoughts of her badoess were false; that she was as »rave and pure hearted as even bis mad love would ask for her to be; how they rode homeward on the one horse, ber cheek lying against his shou'der, and ber hasd pressing the soarf to hie wounded side.’
*«Come again, and tell me more about my lady’s books, Staun, ome again won’t you?’ And so [ said I would, in-| deed, and soon; but’-—the voice of the strong man sank to 60 Jow a cadence that the listeners bent forward to catch his words—-‘but never again did I sit by the coachman’s fire. Only onze more did [ ever ho'd wee Norah’s hand ia mine, and hear her sweet, pretty words, And that once —oh, Virgin Mother? can ever I cease to
**Shaun,’ and it was Madge’s voice that spoke, ‘Don’t ye goon, It is hurting ye cruel, and—’ She stopped; her own eyes were fn}] of tears,”
‘No, Madge, Jass. I wanted to tell this to you. 1’d best tell it quick, and be done with it, It’s long years since I spoke of it to mortal maa or woman, and the words | stick in my throat,’
‘I went to the barn, and opened the big doors wide, and the silent moonlight came ina broad path along the floor, I stood waiting for the stable clock to strike twelve L ean hear it oftea now in my sleep—the deep sound whieh made me start ev.n though it was waiting for it, [ was. I winnowed the corn upon the floor, and God forgieef I spoke the evil name.
moonlight on her white dress, wee “Norah! { stood still in a strange kind of fear, Oh, if that had been the ocly dread that I was to feel that night! I stood, and she stood; and thea softly und glidingly she came up a’ong the moonlight track right fornenst me,’
‘| suppose [ thought it was a svirit for L sprung dack, knocking with ail my weight against something behind me,’
* There was a terrible crash, and I heard wee Norah’s sharp scream; aad i myself gave the echo of ber ery in a loud shout, Faey heard it in the house and whea they found us I wes holding the pretty chiid in my arms, calling madly on ber to open ber eyes, And there beside us lay the heavy long ladder which my wild spring had
brought crashing down on her innocent
head. The yellow hair was all stained with blood, ¢nd on her white = ae there, I can’t say more about iti She
spoke to me once: ‘Shaun, come to mor- row evening, and tell me more of the gentle lady and the knight who loved her,’
‘] suppose she was raving, Certainly she did not groan or sigh or seem to know she was burt, She lifted herself from
love pain, the last effort of his ——— at his heart, but the last effort of his youth's leaping fire? White hairs threaded his thick brown curls, long lines were drawn on his forehead avd round the still, grave mouth. But--and the convic- tion struck bim with beak eertainty—be was not o'd; he felt be was pot old, There was warmth aod strength yet .in his heart that would defy years to quench or time to kill, No, he must struggle on, and suffer still,
He turned with rather a choked * Good night.”
4 Ab, but nonsense! sure you’re not ge- ing away this early, and it raining, too? Sit down, aca, and eat a bit of supper,’ urged Michwel.
But be would not listen, With hasty thanks he »assed out into the stormy au- tumo vight, almost knocking over a wo- aen’s form as be shut the door behind him,
‘Madge! is it you? Goin Ye are wet aodcold, Go in Oh, my darling. ex’ jeytha slan, ahultélish mahuil agus machree!’ t¥
‘Shaun, what are ye doing?’ she cried in a broken, frightened voice, as she felt bis arms aroued her, and heard his pas- sionate words,
He let her go instantly,
‘Wheat am IL doing? I don’t rightly know. I only know 1 love you, Madge, But [ did not mean to tell you so. J did not mean to tell you so!—lI have no right [ was te see my wife that hideous night, and now I must remain married to the spir- it that comes to me often ia my lonely house by the river—comes to me with the moonlight on ita smiling face, end the blood stains on its yellow bair Madge!’ and the fire flashed again into his voice whieh had been speaking in grave, lifeless tones—‘ Madge, 1 tell you it wanted but my love of you to break my heart entirely. Was not my life black enough already ?’
Be telt ber Bogers on his arm.
*You mistake. It is not Norah that eomes to hauat you. She did not even know it was your hand that struck the Jad- der down on ber pretty head, She is not angered with you She joved you well, and may be she’s leaning down from heaven to
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horses which he was exercising; and there if it hadn’t been for that angel, I should lamp was so badiy made that it exploded,
and the man’s wile was injured,
held that she could not jdatllios aaa tradesman sold a man some bair was? to be used by the man’s wife, The heir wash was 60 badly made that the man’s wife was injured. Jt was held she could reeover In some of these casa, the extreme subtlety of the distinctions causes an Apparent contra- diction, waile it is hard to say that either case is wrongly decided, If a man
to build a house, bie death does aot put an end to the eoptract, but it does if he
to “build a light-house. © Agaib, the ques- tion whether a husband has reduced bis wife’s property into possession or not has given rise to very fine distinetions, In one Gase, a wife’s trustee had paid the wif> the rent of some property settled on her, and had borrowed from ber part of the money which was 60 re it was beld that this money was re into possession by the busband, aad that after his wite’s death he might recover it from the trustee, In an- otber case, a man who had receiyed mone for a wife, wrote to ber and told her that he held the money at her disposal, It was beld that after the wife’s death this money did not pass to her husband,
Another question of some difficulty ie whether a servant who is sent by bis master to sell a borse can warrant the borse @o a8 to bind his master, Th» servant of a horse- dealer can bind his master by ® warrant, even though his master has forbidden bim to warrent, A servant sent to sell a horse at a fair, and not authorized to Warrant, a a servant Sent to scli a horse at Tatiersall’s, and authorized 10 give o limited warranty, were a'so held to bind their masters, But where o.e man applied to another for a horse. and the owner of the horse sent it by his ‘aria builiff, the farm bailiff’s warraaty was he/d aot to bind the owner.
SUPREMACY OF ENGLAND ON THE OUEAN,
We commend to those who have becn troubled with doubis as to Kngland’s ability to hold her own against Russianand Ameri« can combivation, to read the following ex- tract from an editora! of the London Times as to ths efficiency of the British navy .—
‘« [nverting the order of recent discussions let us-speak first of our Navy, We stiil enjoy the adventage of an insula: position, and, what is more, we .enjoy it to an ex- tent rarely experienced since the days of the first Napoleon. At no period withia recent times has the British Navy been for certain purposes 80 powerfal as at present. {t is scarcely to be imagined that any ex- isting fleet or combination of fleets could cope with us in our waters, for instance, of the Mediterranean, We could even des- pateh ecross the Atiuotic a squardron far stronger than any which could be sent across the Atlantic against us. no fact as regards general actions at sea, after the old fashion, our Navy would find no match, No ships yet afloat could stand agaiast our ironelads in line of battle, for they sere built, and sueccessfaliy built, to beat the French ships, and the MNrench ships were then the strongest in the world, Bat this, it will be easily seop, represents only one function of a great Navy, Tho truth is, for \wepty years togetaer.we simply ran race with France. Our fleet was measuied agsinst the French fleet yesr after year, not only in popuiar imagination, but io Min- wierial statements, and we thought we had done all that was necessary when our ‘force was raised io the standard thus indicated. We resolved at all cost to keep the command of the Channel and the ascendaney in the Mediterranean, and at these two points England is mistrese of the seas,
** Excepting however, with some ia desig:s it is improbgble vhat any ‘Ponts would attempt to compe'e with us on the con- ditionsimplied The immediate duties of our Navy, in the event of war, would be of « different character. Qur first-rate iron clade would easwer forthe defence of our shores, aod we have, or eball shortly have, ships which, as their constructor tells us, would
see if you are buppy too. Ab, Shaun,
The pleading tone mede itself beard | amidst the tumuit of hia feelings and an- | other thought. Madge loved him. Was she to be sacrificed too to the memory of his iife’s sorrow 4
He turned to her suddenly.
‘Are ye brave enough to wed me, Madge? Will ye dare to face the sprit tinat comes to freeze me into stone? Wiii you, knowing all, come to my freside down by the water? Will you take away the long course off Halley eve by proving it was not my bride [ saw that weary night ? Will you dare to marry a grave, vad man like me? Speak, Madge,’
And she spoke; and through the dark- ness and the rain Rest aad Hope entered his soul with her soft * 1 will.’
tt Farewell to you, light of my éves and of my heart.
THE CURIOSITIES OF THE LAW IN ENGLAND.
A London barrister, Mr, A. V. Dicey,
be able to make en eight orten days run to any menaced point, fight an action, ang return to port, These vessels are most formidable—far surpassing, in armour snd armament. any others afloat, They are designed to combine up to ® certain point the qéalifications of floating batteries und sea-going ships. Ina weight, strength, and power they will exceed the st
known specimens of the former cless; for a given Jength of time they ill be ae movable as the deeiest cwisers, Phis provides us with special meens of effeuce as well as defecce, but even then the oro- vision wo! a limited kind. Al) the ships we have spoken of are large, ponderous, - and in some degree unwieldy vexsels, caleulated to cncouuter ships of their own cluss Again, however, it must be ob- served that it is donbtfal whether the chance of such encounters would ever be offered to us, Our enemies will be well aware of our points of strength, and would decline the attack, Toeir assau!ts would be more likely to be directed against ozr cowmeree, our colonial possessions, aod our outlying ies, while we, on the
has done » good service by showing Luglish- men the absurdities and contradictions of
other hand, should require ships for ofier.- sive operations va foreign coasts and ag.inst
their common lay. His experiencs and il-|foreiga nerbcrs. We should want vessels
my arms when William came, ‘ Father,’ she ewid, ‘oh, father!’ and that was all,’ ‘There was an inquest. They did not blame me. How I wished they would! I did not much care what became of me, But there was no trial. inquest the darling was accustomed to walk in her sleep, and must bave gobolted the door, come into the yard, and strayed by | chance into the open barn, thinking, per- haps, of her pigeon, But 1 knew better, | slot one inch did she stray. She was led by the Black King, whose evil name my ‘guilty lips had spoken, Sie was so lily- pure fe could not barm her; so he made
|me do it—-we, who would have died for } ,
| her.
| 1 could not face the father and mother, who had loved her, though thoy never said one hard word to me. Could J ge and
| {t* Ahaska,’ my dear one,
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‘usirationg are contained in a book entitled | capable o! forcing an entrance into a bostile “A Treatise on the Rules for the Seleetion | port, and destroying ships shelrered yaoder ,of the Parties to aa Action”? — and among |i'8 guns, and, above all, we should need | the curios'ties mentioued are the following : such a fleet of swift and powerful crumersas _ The obetruction of a highway is conzider- would render privateering a desperate ven- | ed to cause peculiar damage to a wan whom sure, |it impedes in his business, but noneto aman! “ At three points we ere deficient, nor \it injures in bis trade, The owner of a dog are quite sure that our deficiencies are pre- is not liable for its biting other men, unless | perly recognized. Out of & score or more he knew of its fiercene s, but without any of ships now building we have only three such knowledge he is liab'e for its biting cat- | frigates of the class required, while we -have .t'e, If a horse is allowed to stray, and it nine heavy turret ships or rams, aud tweive kicks a chi d, the owngr is not liable, for ‘it gunboats — propertious which show clearly is not the ordinary course of the patureofa enough the views hitherto prevailing horse to kick a child.” But if a bors-|at the Admiralty, But the career of strays into a field and kicks apotber man’s swift corvette or @ nimble. well-armed pri- horse, the owuer is liable, because, we pre- vateer 18 not to be checked by steam ram sume, it is the ordinary course o! the oatuce or a turret vessel; aod thouga the guckats 9 8 horse to kick another horse, If may would doubiless prove of the greatest ser- | builds chimneys which must emoke in @ vice 'D our owa waters, they sould DOt péze \eertain direction, and spother can lights form the duties of qoean erusiers, Jn poins