to one merely to ease bis conscience by praying there which of these two do you think would mercy sooner ay you think sir you have me now but vm not so easy as that comes to do you forget so soon an too or may be yer � eh � well who knows � an if you should � bud in respect iv what you me at any rate in the name of goodness set you right i can tell you they d be on a par in that respect you see the of the on the one han an the of the church on the other make up what the man s heart might fall short of so that there t be a differ them an that s the use of otherwise where be the iv id is there any other deep point sir in or divinity that you wish to have cleared up indeed i did not think that your views of religion so peculiar but i will not trouble you further on that subject at present will you permit me to ask if you know father butler i beg your pardon sir for about ten i m these idle fellows of mine isn t got to their work � bud any how i have two or three to say every monday an thursday at time an this is just the hour sir for ye see the sun s now on the third pane of the windy so that i must be at it how an i won t keep you long so saying he went into his own house and the next moment appeared in the tree with a long pair of beads in his hands he then dropped instantly on his knees before a large wooden nailed to the tree which i had not observed saints t a time ago in ireland father before like every other prayed aloud and felt not the slightest degree of shyness in doing so before me on the contrary he went through his with that confidence in their merit which not only gives a so high an opinion of his own but such a very contemptuous one of every person who not as many prayers as himself he had not been many minutes however in the tree when i heard him in the midst of the prayer shout with a most voice very well very well that s a fine way you re the turf an you you great isn t it a fine way yer the time between i must pay wages an give for this � an well ye both ye idle he then resumed his prayer whilst his eye was passing from place to place to see that every man was employed in the course of a few minutes he again i say take an put the an on that mule that s herself in the craft and help tim to draw home them rough heads x we ll soon want them for the to the he then resumed as before and began to finger the beads as if he were paid for reckoning them by the hundred a few minutes before his descent he called out to a boy who was driving out the cows that had been to pasture will ye back don t you see that she s sick ye blind bud drive her to the wan side first there s red headed ye � to the wan side with her till the unlucky thief passes he then got through two or three more � tackle f x a kind of turf � father butler descended by the window as before and the next moment was with me in the garden well said i if i had not seen you practise this species of devotion in the tree i could scarcely have believed that a man would select such a situation for prayer � indeed sir i m now so used to id that i would rather pray there than any place else but an idle pack of fellows about me here an so many prayers to say that i declare it sir i never both on some plan like this � oh ho thought i the secret is out he s no after all it is to watch the that honest the tree and for no spiritual confidence that he puts in the situation although i should not feel surprised from what i have seen of him if that notion too influenced him i now came directly to the object of my visit said i do you know father butler the young clergyman who lives here in our neighbourhood do i know im is id said he looking with one eye shut very into my face � an may i make in a civil way to ax your fur that same i assure you said i i have no particular reason except a wish to become acquainted with him and why sir still in a civil way i mane you wish to get him because i think an interesting intelligent young man i replied � and because i m told there s something peculiar if not affecting in his history he again looked into my face and seemed not only cautious and inquisitive but suspicious and dissatisfied hum � an who sent you to me sir submission to any thing about father butler it was tom i answered one of my who told me whatever i have heard about mr butler and directed me to you well father butler sir hot you an ill go back to tom the d that hasn t an iv sense an tell im me that he s as much about father butler as i do an tell im too if ye that neither iv is s any thing to if i certainly felt offended at his and the evident of his manner but i perceived that 