bent for which is my own property and i may be hanged but if we do not them it is i myself who will have to pay the fine the pursuit instantly commenced with a speed and vigour equal to the ingenuity of this singular act of on the himself being long firom practice in this and being further stimulated by the loss which he dreaded made as beautiful a run of d nd of it as of his it was all in vain however he merely got to i e the head and worn heaved across the ditch his own property and to reflect after it tiiat he was certain to haye the double of b made standing joke of for life and of paying for the jest out oi own in the meantime he was bound of course to the still and report the aod as he himself tbe in question the fine was to the shilling upon the very i that if he had been active and man would have et up a still so convenient to his and this of keeping in reserve w or second set of apparatus for the purpose of acting the and the waa afterwards often practised with success but tbe of it waa undoubtedly m although the honour of the discovery was attributed to b the matter however did not end here in a � afterwards some wag in other ge � ge correct information sent to touching the locality of the and the secret of ei on this n the latter brought a larger party than usual him but it waa only to ei he in a position if still more than i the first indeed the o� in the but nothing else every and connected with the process had been removed with the exception o to which wa attached by a bit of the following friendly note � � mr fa this bottle and drink own t it was the day to look m and thb a while you were speaking to the little boy that made a of you being then under your nose let it be drunk in the same place and don t forget while doing so to health of g s the went abroad like and was known indeed for a long time it was the standing topic of the parish and so sharply was it felt by that he could never keep his mr when did you see little george � a question to which ho wa mt known to g v a dis reply irish the fate of frank m hate met and the various classes that x general society and we feel ourselves bound to say that in no instance have we ever met any individual no matter what his class or rank in life who was really indifferent to the subject of dreams and they are topics that interest the imagination in all and the head of age is inclined with as much interest to a ghost story as the young and eager ear of youth wrought up by all the and apprehensive powers of early it is true the belief in ghosts is fast disappearing and that in is already almost gone but with what new wonders they will be replaced it is difficult to say the physical and natural we suppose will give us enough of the marvellous without having recourse to the spiritual and supernatural steam and gas if science advance for another half century at the same rate as she has done in the last will give sufficient exercise to all our faculties for wondering we know a man who travelled eighty miles to see whether or not it was a fact that light could be conveyed for miles in a pipe under ground and this man to our own knowledge po the organ of mar to a surprising degree it is singular too that his fear of ghosts was in proportion to this to wonder as was his disposition when snug in a chimney comer to talk incessantly of such topics as were calculated to excite it in our opinion ghosts and will be seen wherever are talked of and a belief in their fate or frank m and nourished so long as the powers of the imagination are kept warm and active by exercise they will create for themselves such images as they are in the habit of or dwelling upon and these when the individual happens to be in the appropriate position will even by the mere force of association the particular that is in the mind as an illustration of this i shall mention two cases of apparition which occurred in toy native parish one of which was that of a ghost and the other of the to those who have read my traits and stories of the irish the first which shall may possess some interest as being that upon which i founded the tale of the ll mass the circumstances are simply these there lived a man named m at the hip of one of the hills which divide the county of from that of this m had two sons one of whom was in the habit of tracing of a sunday whenever there happened to be a fall of snow his father it seems had frequently remonstrated with him upon what he considered to be a of the lord s day as well as for his general neglect of mass the young man however though otherwise harmless and was in this matter quite insensible to paternal reproof and continued to trace whenever the of labour would allow him it so happened that upon a christmas morning i think in the year there was a deep fall of snow and young m instead of going to mass got down his cock stick � which is a staff much thicker and heavier at one end than at the other � and prepared 