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81 KNOW said Jerry, signing, shat l had
rather than twenty pounds that your words
were rue
Twenty pounds!' said Terence O'Sulli-
van, 'are you quite in earneSt?'
Perfectly so,' said the amorous bachelor.
'Well,' quOth the Wkisperer, have it your
own way time may come, my boy, when you
would give twenty pounds to get rid of a wife.
as l know for a reason I'll not disclose. But I
was not joking in the least. Give me the
twenty pounds, and if you are not married by
tiis day week 10 Mary Mulca,y, msyrL. never
set foot in stirrup to the hour of my DEATH
Jerry Ryan did not half believe the Whis-
.perer, and yet his fame was great. At length
he made up his mind, and gave Terence the
twenty pounds, making him swear upon the
mass-bOok, that if he did hot succeed, the mo-
.ney should be put back again safe and sound in
his hands.
Away went the Whisperer, but not at Oncet to
the priest. He knew the world better; and he
waited until after dinner, when his reverence
was over his tumbler Of punch. Nothing sof-
tens a mans heart so mnch, as Terence knew
from his own experience.
Is it about the bay mare you are come to me,
Terence, my friend? You'll take a glass Of
punch, | am sure.'
'Ay,' replied the Whisperer, Tor two of them
if it would do any good to your reverence
So he sat down, and they talked away as fast
as they could, about the heat of the weather, the
OtatO crop, the price of whisky, Squire John
sons last hunt, Catholic emancipation, the new
read under the hill-every thing in the world
And at last, when the priest was in the height
Of good hulnor, the Whisperer brought in the
business Of Jerry Ryan, in the easiest way he
could. .. 81 u.-.-
Don't talk 10 me about it, said the Doctor,
Terence O'Sullivan, but drink your punch in
peace-it can't be. They are too near akin
It's clearly againstth the law Of the church,
And he quoted St. Augustine, and Thomas
Aquinas, and Sardanapalus, and Nebuchadnez-
Ear, and other fathers Of the church: which he
we'll knew how to do. being regularly bred in
the famous University of Salamanca, where he
took his degree of Doctor of Canon law, in The
year eighty-ohe. ''
The Nhisperer waited to the end of the Doc
tors speech, and then said:
sIt's j mighty fine thing, Doctor, to be SO
learned a man. How your head holds all that
knowledge, is more than l can say
On which the Doctor smiled
But continued Terence, there was not a
Saint among them who would not listen to rea-
son, and if your reverence would Just let me
whisper one minute to you, may be you'd think
better of it,
Whisper TO me, man, said the priest, sdo
Won take me for a horsef'
God Forbid said the Whisperer. that /
should compare your reverence to . brute
baste. But LET me try
We'll" said the priest, sthis is one of the
foolishest things l ever heard of; but if you in
sist upon it, you may follow your own vagary,
0nly l tell you its of ITO use, for l never
Don't be rash, father Delany,' said the Whis-
perez, and putting his mouth close TO the ear of
the priest, he whispered something to him.
'O! said the priest, but you are a wonderful
man, TerenHe O'Sullivan- that alters she case.
| see the thing in quite a different light. The
poor young creatures! Send them TO me, and
we'll settle the NATTER
Now what did the Whisperer say?-I can't
guess. But whatever it was, Jerry Ryan and
Mary Mulcahy were married that day week,
and the Whisperer danced at the wedding.
1T would he a quare (quecr) thing said he
If /, who could tame the strongest horse in the
country, would not be able to tame an ould
priest