" "How long have you been, coming here?" asked the astounded Mr. P. "Nigh on to three days, yer honor, and I drove as fast as I could, hopin' to get back by the Sunday in time for the Centhral Park, but I had to stop sometimes for feed and wather, and it's no use me whippin' up afther all, for sorra the good them horses will be for the Centhral Park on the Sunday.

" "As the wolf said to the lamb when he bid him take a walk in the wather.

"Is it journeying south, or to the other end of this bit of wather, or ice, that yer honour is thinking of?"

"They tould me Ameriky was a mighty warm country, and war-r-m I find it, sure enough, though the wather isn't as warm as good whiskey.

It followed the day all's one like a puppy dog, while yon on the big wather there was no more dhriving it than a hog.

If I had me will of the blackguards, every rogue of 'em should be bound hand and fut and laid under that pratthy wather-fall, yon at the mill, until his sins was washed out of him.

I never wath much of a cackler, Thquire, and I have thed my thay.

You wath always a favorite with uth, and you've done uth credit thinth the old timeth, I'm thure.

Ith fourteen month ago, Thquire, thinthe we wath at Chethter.

He had travelled a long way, he wath in very bad condition, he wath lame and pretty well blind.

He had travelled a long way, he wath in very bad condition, he wath lame and pretty well blind.

He went round as if he wath a theeking for a child he know'd; and then he comed to me, and thood on hith two fore-legth, weak ath he wath, and then he wagged hith tail and died.

He went round as if he wath a theeking for a child he know'd; and then he comed to me, and thood on hith two fore-legth, weak ath he wath, and then he wagged hith tail and died.

Thquire, that dog wath Merrylegth.

Now, Thquire, I can take my oath, from my knowledge of that dog, that that man wath deadand buriedafore that dog came back to me.

"One of the gintlemen wants some soap and wather with his wine," exclaimed Andy.

"It's about the last ov it here, Sirr," said the girl, "an' we may as well ate what is good and drink something betther than cold wather.

And so the poor crathure died at last, and the docthers said it was wather on the brain, for it was all they could say.

"The Bishop says the last time he come round, 'I s'pose,' he says, 'ye were goin' to put wather in the milk.'

'No,' says I, 'there was wather enough in it before.'

Wait a bit," she says, "an' I'll fetch ye a sup o' the wather I'm afther bilin' the pitaties in, maybe that'll do ye good," she says. '

Well,' says the Gout, 'if the fellow didn't go an' put his fut, an' me in it, into an owld rusty bucket full of pitaty-wather!

" "If they was rale bad people," said Roseen persuasively; "rale wicked, crule people, the same as me gran'father beyant, it 'ud sarve them right,or we might throw down a sup of bilin' wather," she added as a concession.

"What good would a bucket or two of wather do on that?" "Well, do something can't yez?" cried Roseen.

"Steam isWhyerit's wather thos's gone crazy wid the heat.