Well, sir, he has an honest claim agin these United States for damage and raisin' the divil with his farm durin' the Civil War.

He was lost in wonder and amazement and was first aroused from his reverie by the young man at his side saying: "Don't she bate the divil?" It was his skeptical Irish friend.

Sure you're no mate for any honest woman, you blackhearted, smooth-tongued divil!"

I forgot that fat-headed divil of an editor.

"You've played the divil now," said Terrence, when he read the interview in the next issue of the Baltimore Sun.

" "Jist begun!" replied the astonished McCloskey; "haven't we bin raising the very divil every night for the last weekrunning a near chance of being kilt all the timeand all for nothing!

"Upon me sowl, Colonel, I'm not; as shure ez me name's Pat Maloney, one of thim rid divils hit me on the head wid a club, so he did," said Pat; and so, when morning came, the mystery was further investigated and was easily solved.

He can screw up for a prayer-meetin', or he can screw down for businesswhen he's a mind, but, as Jimmie over there says, 'the divil a different pace can you put him through.'

"'Tis a quare divil, he is," she said, "God help him!"

" "Wid the divil himself at the bellys," added Sweeny.