Steped beside  Kingsbridge. ravelling  mail to Cork. As train steamed out of tation  of  day at Clongo  no elegraply every four seconds, ttle glimmering stations, manned by a fe sentries, flung by t in the darkness like fiery grains flung backwards by a runner.

    ened  sympato ion of Cork and of scenes of ale broken by sigs from  flask . Step could feel no pity. trangers to  of uncle Cely been fading out of memory.  y o be sold by auction, and in t to asy.

    At Maryborougrain  of Malloc. t of try, over ttages. terror of sleep fascinated c country or ime to time . trange dread, as t t come quickly. o God nor saint, began  to , and ended in a trail of fooliso fit tent rrain; and silently, at intervals of four seconds, telegrapes of tual bars. t t his eyelids close again.

    t ill early morning and Steporia el. t raffic. anding before table, examining ac care, craning er-jug and dra back sideo see tter. ly to  accent and phrasing:

    `tis youth and folly

    Makes young men marry,

    So here, my love, Ill

    No longer stay.

    cant be cured, sure,

    Must be injured, sure,

    So Ill go to

    Amerikay.

    `My love shes handsome,

    My love shes bony:

    Shes like good whisky

    is new;

    But wis old

    And growing cold

    It fades and dies like

    tain dew.

    ty outside ender tremors ooned trange sad s of ts ill ep up quickly to dress and, whe song had ended, said:

    -- ts muctier ther come-al