enough for me they then separated the tailor s must have been powerful or he would have died in two years more his friends could not distinguish him from his own shadow a circumstance which was of great inconvenience to him several grasped at the hand of the shadow instead of his and one man was near pa it five and sixpence for making a pair of it is true him with some trouble but candidly admitted that he was not able to carry home the money it was difficult indeed for the poor tailor to bear what he felt it is true he bore it as long as he could but at length he became and often had thoughts of making his own with his bare after many and he ultimately made the attempt but alas he found that the blood of the refused to flow upon so an occasion so he solved the phenomenon although the truth was that his blood was not i the vein for it none was to be had what then was to be done he resolved to get rid of life by some process and the next that occurred to him was hanging in a solemn spirit he prepared a and suspended himself from the of his but here another disappointment awaited him he would not hang such was his want of gravity that his own weight proved insufficient to occasion his death by mere his third attempt was at drowning but he was too light to sink all the elements all his own energies joined themselves he thought in a wicked conspiracy to save his life having thus tried every avenue to destruction and failed in all he felt like a man doomed to live forever he shrank and by slow degrees until in the course of time he became so that the of human vision could no longer reach him this however could not last always though still alive he was to all and purposes he could only now be heard he was reduced to a mere essence the very echo of human existence et it is true the asserted that he occasionally caught passing glimpses of him but that was because he had been himself nearly by affliction and his ray in the furnace of domestic by and by s voice lessened got fainter and more indistinct until at length nothing but a doubtful murmur could be heard which ultimately could scarcely be distinguished from a ringing in the ears such was the awful and mysterious fate of the tailor who as a hero could not of course die he merely dissolved like an wasted into and finally melted away beyond the perception of mortal sense mr o is still living and once more in the fulness of perfect health and strength his wife however we may as well hint has been dead more than two years the the of all the amongst the natives of ireland at any period past or present there is none so grand or fanciful none which has been so universally assented to or so cordially cherished as the belief in the existence of the there are very few however acquainted with irish life or irish history but must have heard or read of the irish still as there are different stories and different opinions afloat respecting this strange being i think a little explanation concerning her appearance functions and habits will not be to my readers the then is said to be an and immortal being attached time out of mind to various respectable and ancient families in ireland and is said always to appear to announce by cries and the death of any member of that family to which she belongs she always comes at night a short time previous to the death of the fated one and takes her stand outside convenient to the house and there the most plaintive cries and generally in some unknown language and in a tone of voice resembling a human the female she continues her visits night after night unless vexed or annoyed until the mourned object dies and sometimes she is said to continue about the house for several nights after sometimes she is said to appear in the shape of a most beautiful young and dressed in the most elegant and fantastic garments but her general appearance is in the likeness of a very old woman of small stature and bending and form enveloped in a winding sheet or grave dress and her long white hair waving over her shoulders and descending to her feet at other times she is dressed in the costume of the middle ages � the different articles of her clothing being of the richest material and of a hue she is very shy and easily irritated and when once annoyed or vexed she flies away and never returns during the same generation when the death of the person whom she is or to occur by accident she is particularly agitated and troubled in her appearance and unusually loud and mournful in her some would fain have it that this strange being is by a feeling quite to the interests of the family which she haunts and that she comes with joy and triumph to announce their misfortunes this opinion however is rejected by most people who imagine her their most devoted friend and that she was at some remote period a member of the family and once existed on the earth in life and loveliness it is not every irish family can claim the honour of the an attendant they must be descended and of ancient line to have any just pretensions to a warning spirit however she does not appear to be influenced by the difference of creed or provided there be no other as several families of and saxon origin boast of their own and to this hour several noble and distinguished families in the country feel 