Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-03-13

tralia. and so far as l can judge, for the paper which he both owns and edits comes to me regularly. writes very we'll indeed. From certain signs and tokens I believe that the poetry which adorns it is his own. Little Charley, though he threatened at one time to join the Church of Rome, is now, am glad to say, a low church clergyman and rector of the parish of Hugriminton in the shire of Essex and maintains manfully in those parts the sound doctrine of sal vation by faith only. With regard to the apparition, I have to add the fol- lowing: Some of the more interesting metal work showed to college chum, who told me that he had a friend, who was well up in antiquities, who would be able to tell us all about them. His friends name was Hennessy. I forget his Christian name. A distinguished Gaelic scholar, translator of "The An nals of Locke Ce'' and of the annals of Ulster; died few years ago. He is gentleman who, understand, has since distinguished himself in that department of scholarship and now occupies posi- ton of trust under the government. MT. Hennessy assigned the metal work to some century which I forget. He said, I remember that its characteristics were more Scandinavian than Irish, and that their partial defacement was due to the fact that they had been cast upon the funeral pyre of the person in whose tomb they were found. AS 1 had told MT. Hennessy nothing about how and where found them, 1 was greatly struck by his penetration. Afterward I told him the whole story of my immurement in the cavern, with the leading facts of which he was generally acquainted, for it was common theme of conversation at the time, and pretty full account had appeared not long before in the Saunders News Letter. When I came to describe the personal appearance and dress of the ghost, he was greatly sur prised and interested and told me that the dress was that of an antique Irish warrior. He took from drawer cer tain Irish manuscript and read out for me, translating as he went along, three or four passages, in which the appear ance of the costume of ancient Irish war riors was described, and which quite supported his view. He said that the metal which I have described as being like gold, but brighter, was an amalgam of tin and copper, a species of bronze, the secret of whose manufacture has since been lost, and that the eyes in the ghosts brooch, which looked like glass, but were not so bright as glass, were probably of that substance which in Ireland is called Kerry diamond" He was very much impressed by the whole of my story about the ghost, and so far from treating it lightly was very serious indeed and said many times that it was marvelous-and marvellous indeed it was, be the explanation what it may. When spoke of Curry's Win dow, he stopped me and asked whether I was sure that the fisherman had pro- nounced the word as I had pronounced it. "A great deal" he said, in inves- tigating antiquities and the significance of names depends on the exact pronun. ciation." I said that he had not. and that it was for convenience's sake I had pronounced it so; that the fisherman had pronounced it something like Coorer. He seemed greatly pleased and inter- ested in this. He told me then that this was the name of the sea god of the southern and western Irish in the pre- Christian ages, and that in the still ex- tant literature there was large vari- ety of stories relating to this being. After the introduction and spread of Christianity in the country the pagan deities began to be regarded as evil be- ings, usually as piasts, or great water serpents. This seems probable and will help to explain the singular story told to MT. Watkins by one of the islanders, which story, as my editor informs me, he has taken from the correspondence of that gentleman and intends to pub fish along with my narrative.
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