The Litchfield County post., 1828-12-18

goose, dld the same thlng. Their eXan- pie was followed by the poker and at last by all the furniture in the apartment. The whole were dancing, both ihe living and the dead and the longer they danced the more violent and unruly their gesticulations became.
 But och what pity this fine party in a moment was blown up by Judy ,who sud- denly open the door of her own room, ,and popped her meagre, ill-natured face into the shop. All at once the music stopped; Terence leaped down alarmed from the shop board, and poker, tongs, and furni- ture, tumbled headlong to the ground.-- There was not sowl in the room who preserved a particle of coolness except the ould gentleman, who kept his temper and spirits marvelously we'll ,and neither show ed any signs of fear nor passion. l need not tell you that when Judy saw all these pretty goings on she was nightly bamboo zled. She did not know what to make of it, and gazed like stuck pig upon the scene which lay before her. But she soon made up her mind how to act, and laying hold of the poker, she advanced to Ter ence with the intention, no doubt, of letting the light of day into his numskull. Ter ence, like wise man slunk behind his ho- nor, and left him to bear the brunt of the engagement; and when Judy came on,the ould gentleman kept between her and her husband, and saved the tailor's skin from whatever compliments were charitably iD- tended for it. But this would not do for Judy, who swore by the rowley- -powley and the tumbling Tom, that if she could not have her will of the one she would have it of the other. So she struck the worthy ould man an internal whAck on one side of the sconce-but he only laughed at it, and so did Terence for long black horn sprouted out from the ould gentle- mans head, at the very spot where he re- ceived the blow. Judy was not slow in re- beating the compliment upon the 0 her side, when a second horn, like the first shot instantly forth. As for the blows, they did not harm him abit and he laugh ed them off as he had been struck by feather.
 When Judy saw this she smelt rat; she smoked his reveren,e,a ,and thought it would be no ways inconsistent with her valour to sound barley, and if possible, make re- treat. Poor sowl, she got alarmed; for the onld gentleman had not only couple of horns s uck out from his head, but his eyes as they sbone through the glasses of his spectacles, were like red hot iron and in addition, she perceived for the first time hat he had long tail and was cloven- footed.
 'Sain Peter, help me now!' said she 'for as sure as my name is Judy OsFlaher- ty, yon are the devil hmself-and the sooner take myself off from you the bet ter.'
 When she spoke these words, she made towards her own room, in the hope of get ting fairly in. and of boiling his reverence and her husband as fairly out. But the ould gentleman was too quick for her, for he placed himself opposite to the door, the tailor keeping his station comfortably at his back. Then he began to fiddle and Judy, spite of her tee,h.got into the middle of the floor, and commenced dancing about in all directions, as if she were bewitched. And no sooner had she begun, to dance, than Terence did the same thing; and tbe poker,and the rest of the furniture, recom- menced their onld pranks, and danced as briskly as at first ! In vain did Judy weep and shriek and tear her hair in agony she was compelled to dance there was no help in her pitiful case dance she must; by hook and crook, so long as his wor- ship-God bless him !-played upon his fiddle.
 'Now, Terence,' said the ould gentle- Gan, after little time, twill ye open that door, and Judy and I will take dance by ourselves in the open air ?-But see, my dear child, that you keep to the house, and don't be following after us.'
 Now, when Judy heard this, she got more alarmed than ever, r,and prayed to Te- renee, as he valued her sowl, not to do as his reverence desired him; but Terence, as he valued her soul frosted potatoe, ,and he opened the door in the twinkling of an eye. Out then passed the ould gentleman playing upon the fiddle, and out after him went Judy tearing her cheeks and dancing, in the extreme of terror and amazement.-- As soon as they were out, Terence stood at the door to observe whither they were bound. IL was moonlight-and he saw them first dance down his potatoe garden, which stood in the front of the house then they got into the bog beyond it; but where they went after that he could not tell, for they soon melted in the gloom of night kl- Al H. 1CG G.u.1 ,S-