and as he looked at the fine countenance of the e as it did enthusiasm and his lighted with a gleam of indignation it was not against the poor scholar no gentle reader bat against his own o said he whit do yon think and this noble lo the son of a belongs to a class of h i am by heaven we are i fear a d by the scholar is ot all sir replied the are noble exceptions among them their faults are more the faults of than well no matter come i will draw ap the against this man afterwards i to to yon mj boy he addressing that will not i trust he unpleasant he drew np the as strongly as he could word them after which to their truth and accuracy and the colonel rubbing his hands again said � i will have the fellow secured when you go into town mr o i ll thank you to on and hand him these he will lodge the in this very night then thanked him and was about to withdraw when the colonel desired him to remain a little longer now said he your father has been treats i believe but no matter that is not the question your sentiments and conduct and affection for your parents are noble my boy at present i say the d by the poor scholar is not whether the of your father s wrongs he true or false at least believe it to be true from this forward � but by tlie by i forgot how could your becoming a poor scholar i intended to become a priest sir and then to help them ay so i thought and provided your father were restored to his farm would you be still disposed to become a priest i would sir next to helping my father that is what i wish to be o what would it cost to prepare liim for the � i mean to ay his expenses he his preparatory education in the first place and afterwards during bis residence in i think two hundred pounds sir would do it easily and i do not think it would however do yon send but first let me ask what progress he has already made he has read � in fact he is nearly prepared to enter his has been very rapid d by put liim to some respectable boarding school for a year then liim and i will bear the expense but remember i do not adopt this coarse in of his er s i by i do it on his own account he is a boy and full of fine qualities if tliey be not by neglect and poverty i loved my father myself and fought a on his account and i honor the son who spirit to defend his absent parent this is a most surprising turn in the boy s fortunes colonel he deserves it a soldier mr o is not without his enthusiasm nor can he help admiring it in others when nobly and directed to see a boy in the midst of poverty the hardships and difficulties of life with the hope of raising up his parents from distress to independence has a touch of in it ireland colonel with instances of similar virtue brought out probably into fuller life and vigor by the sad changes and which are weighing down the people in her on her bleak sides and in d by lier remotest plains such examples of pure affection energy and humble heroism are to be seen but unfortunately few persons of rank or observation mingle with the irish people and their many admirable pass away without being recorded in the literature of their country they are certainly a strange people colonel almost an in the history of the human race they are the only who can out from the very virtues of private life to the of crimes at which we shudder there is to be sure an about their oppression bat that is wrong their and ignorance are rather the result of neglect � of neglect sir from the government of the country � from the earl to the they have been taught little that is suitable to their stations and duties in life as tenants who cultivate our lands or as members of moral or christian society well well i believe what you say is too bnt touching the records of virtue in humble life pray who record it when nothing goes down now a days but what is monstrous or fashionable d by the poor veiy true colonel yet in my humble opinion a irish peasant is far from being so low a character as a man of rank well well well come o we will drop the subject in the meantime touching this boy as i said he must be looked to for he has that in him which ought not to be neglected we shall now see that this d� d be punished for his cruelty the worthy colonel in a short time dismissed poor with an heart not until he had placed a sum in the s hands for him to make a respectable appearance medical advice was also for h m by ch he sooner o e came tl e ff of his master s ty ou the way home ny related to h nd the on h he d had th i b hop a th shed and the k n ut rest tl at gentle had taken h s t at on d ts mr br en told h m that th b wa an excellent man jo se g m n t on and ce a ic tie p nt � ho on pan c n th y h ve gone a no � � the d by the pi people this heavy of and and r them from those which thej 