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"Ah! hem hem Hourigan, you are a d d ras hem simple-hearted fellow, I think, or you wouldn't spake as you do. "But an I to get not justice sir, against the man that left me as you see me. Is the poor man, sir, to be horse-whipped and cut up at the will an' pleasure of the rich, an'not to get either law or justice?" O'Driscol's face was now a picture of most ludicrous embarrassment and distress.
I beg your pardon come into the office till I see what I can do for you at all events." He accordingly preceded Purcel to his office, accompanied by Sam Finigan, a kind of thorough male domestic who acted as his clerk. Here he took his seat with a good deal of ceremony, hemmed several times, and desired Hourigan to be admitted.
Purcel before my father has gone out?" "I don't know, plaise your honor." "Did any person go out within the last few minutes?" "Yes, sir, there went a man out; maybe it was him." "You don't know Hourigan's appearance, then?" "No, sir. Hourigan, was that his name?" "Yes. Are you a native of this county?" "Not exactly, sir; but I have friends in it." "Who are they?"
"Well, may be so," replied the other; "but if it be so, it's of late it must have happened, that's what I say." Hourigan, who was by trade a shoemaker, was also a small farmer; but, sooth to say, a more treacherous or ferocious-looking ruffian you could not possibly meet with in a province.
Purcel mark me you, too, Hourigan I know no man, sir, in my capacity of a magistrate hem hem! only according to the merits I am as much the poor man's friend as I am the rich man's, and of the two more: if I lane at all, which I don't, it is to the poor man; but as an impartial man magistrate I mane I know naither rich or poor.
"Now, you scoundrel," he replied, taking up the whip, and commencing to flog Hourigan with all his strength, which was very great, "I will give you, by way of foretaste, a specimen of what a ruffian like you deserves when he is insolent." With such singular energy, good will, and admirable effect did he lace Mr.
I certainly, in the heat of the moment, so far resented the affront offered to the most respectable magistracy of this fine country as to give him a few slight touches of the whip, more like one in jest, I assure your worship, than like an angry man." "Hourigan," said O'Driscol, swelling up to a state of the most pompous indignation, "this is infamous conduct which he relates of you, sir.
"Forgive him, sir!" said Hourigan, shrugging himself, and putting up his hand to feel the welts of black and blue which intersected each other upon his countenance and shoulders. "An' maybe it's half-a-crown he'll threwn me." "No, no, Hourigan, I'll guarantee for him that he'll treat you liberally: one good turn deserves another, you know." "Well, then, let him say what he'll give me."
Just at that moment, and while Hourigan was coming in, a young lad, or tiger, a son of Finigan's, by the way, who had been in the habit of carrying letters to and from the neighboring post-office, now entered and presented him with one, to the following effect:
"I believe you're right, Sam; he's a bad bird, Hourigan; so I think the best thing to do is to tie his hands up for him." "And if we could tie his tongue up too, your worship, it ought to be done." Here, on the other hand, the notice he had just received stuck in his throat, and reduced him to a new perplexity. "But then, Sam," he added, "think of the revengeful spirit that is abroad.
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