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Wanst there, he will consult with mimbers iv th' Noo York Bar Association, who will lead him to a firm iv competent expert accountants, who will give him his time, which is two minyits measured be th' invarse ratio iv th' distance fr'm th' binnacle to th' cook-stove, an' fr'm th' cook-stove, east be north to th' bowspirit.

Callaghan, says the other; 'that's the curse of the widows and orphans, and the poor in general, that you have oppressed in ordher to keep up a fat an' greedy establishment, says he, 'but in the mane time, keep a good heart we're friends of yours, and wishes you well; and if the curses have come down hot and heavy on your back, we'll take them off it, says he, 'so aisily and purtily, that if you'll only shut your eyes, you'll think yourself in another world I mane of coorse the world you'll go to, says he; 'we have got a few nice and aisy machines here, for ticklin' sich procthors, in ordher to laugh them into health again, and we'll now set you to rights' at wanst.

Talkin' av that, have ye iver fallen in love, sorr? I preserved the silence of the damned. Mulvaney continued 'Thin I will assume that ye have not. I did. In the days av my youth, as I have more than wanst tould you, I was a man that filled the eye an' delighted the sowl av women. Niver man was hated as I have bin. Niver man was loved as I no, not within half a day's march av ut!

His mind wandered until it was brought: "Many a man's soul has filtered up through salt-water off these shores, lad, because he talked less of his memories than his troubles but you won't betray me, boy!... My Gawd, lad, to have C'lestin' in the hold under 'me feet as he wanst had me but let that pass or lyin' deeper still under the Savonarola with the fishes tuggin' at his carcass.

"Begad, it was lovely wanst; now; how do you account, Art, for bein' supairior to us in all in in every thing, I may say; ay, begad, in every thing, and in all things, for that's a point every one allows."

"But, Father, you may as well spake out at wanst," she continued, for she was too quick and direct in all her dealings to be annoyed by circumlocution; "you're desairous of a match between Dan an' Miss Granua?" "Exactly," said the priest; "and what is more, I believe they are fond of each other. I know Dan is attached to her, for he told me so.

I seen him wanst, whin some scow unloaders sthruck in Lemont or some other distant place, put on his coat, lay down his shovel, an' go out, be hivins, alone.

Thin the bhoys wud clamor to take a part, an' oft as not ould Silver made them pay for the fun. Faith, I've seen Hamlut played wid a new black eye an' the queen as full as a cornucopia. I remimber wanst Hogin that 'listed in the Black Tyrone an' was shot in South Africa, he sejuced ould Silver into givin' him Hamlut's part instid av me that had a fine fancy for rhetoric in those days.

M'Carthy then gave him a brief, and by no means a detailed account of the danger he had passed. "Well," said the other, "everything's clear enough when it's known; but, as it's clear that you have enemies in the neighborhood, I think the wisest thing you could do would be to lave it at wanst."

"Whin I was a young man an' Crosby's Opry house was r-runnin' I used to go down wanst in a while an' see Jawn Dillon throwin' things around f'r th' amusemint iv th' popylace an' whin Shakespere was played I often had a seat in th' gal'ry, not because I liked th' actin', d'ye mind, but because I'd heerd me frind Hogan speak iv Shakespere.