ready care, this tranquil piety, this serviceable humanity, this habit of doing good at every hour and at every moment, without seeming to be conscious of any merit, made a deep impression upon me. What, said I to myself, for my pitiful crown, and a few steps in the service of an unfortunate man, I am transported with joy, and content with myself beyond measure! and these religious, who pass their days and nights in nursing, attending, and re. lieving the poor, and who do more good in one day, than I shall ever do in my life, do not even deign to think of it. This indeed is meritorious and sublime. "Before I left the old man, I took his daughters address, that I might send her an account of her father, and went to join the ladies, who were waiting for me on the other side of the bridge. I could not avoid tell ing them what had passed; my sorrow present mingled little ridicule with the paths of my recital;-but! I desired them to be more generous, and told him that til the old man should be cured, I was his treasurer. Our society in the country often changed, and whenever a new face arrived, I was desired to repeat my tale. Inever failed to mention the offer of my crown, and this excess of liberality never failed to draw upon me ironical admiration. A crown,' said they, a crown to the good old man for so invaluable a dog!-'And you Sir,' said I, and you madam, how much would you have given?'-Every one named a smaller or greater sum, according as his sensibility had been worked upon by my narrative. Well said I, the old man is not far off, and every one may do what he would have done in my place. They vied with one another in generosity, and I, for my share, thanked heaven for having the talent of moving the rich. given me, instead of riches, At length I announced the wished for day when my old man would come with his dog. to return thanks to his benefaction. The house was full. I went to the hospital to fetch him;; and after having expressed my heart-felt gratitude to the good fathers, and my veneration for so sacred an institution, and for functions so pi. ously fulfilled, I brought him with me almost as active and as joyous as his spaniel. They were both received with joy ful exclamations; but the dog was taken the most notice of. Never in his life did he receive so many caresses. He was at first confused, but he soon returned them, with a look that seemed to say, he knew why he was so well treated. 'The good old man dined with us, and his dog beside him. They slept together, and the following morning, at the dawn of day, came to take leave of me. The honest man's little treasure was delivered to him. I told him in vain that I had contributed but little. I am indebted to you for al,' said he, and I will never forget it.' On saying these words he wanted to throw himself at my feet; but I held him up, and finding ourselves in one another's arms, we took leave as affectionately as two old friends would have done. Sprightly stood up on his hind legs, and I stooped towards him, when all at once, the im-age of the old man banging, like me, over his dog, and thinking he was kissing him for the last time, rushed into my mind; and I could not refrain from tears. Ah! you neglect him,' said the old man, keep him, he is still yours." No, my friend, no; go and be happy, I am more so myself than I have deserved to be; and your image and that of your dog, will long suffice to make me so in idea." For the Lady's Miscellany. VARIETY ORIGINAL AND SELECTED I'll have you before his Honor.' "PLL have the law of you, so I will! is the saying of an Englishman, who expects justice.justice. I'll have you before his honor, 'is the treat of an Irishman, who hopes for parti ality. Miserable is the life of a justice of the peace in Ireland the day after a fair, espi 'Sir,' said he, at length "I am going away loaded with your favours; but will you permit me to beg one more ;You have embraced me; pray deign to kiss my dog. I wish to tell my daughter that you kissed my dog. Come here, Sprightly,' said he. 'come, the gentleman will be good enough to do you that honour.cially if he resides near a small town. The multitude of the kilt (kilt does not mean killed, but hurt) and wounded, who come before his honor with black eyes or bloody heads, is astonishing: but more aston. ishing is the number of those, who, though they are scarcely able by daily labour to procure daily food, will nevertheless, without the least reluctance waste six or seven hour ofs the day lounging in the yard or hall of a justice of the peace, waiting to make some couplaint about-nothing. It is impossible to convince them, that time is money. They do not set any value upon their own time, and they think that others estimate their's at less than nothing. Hence they make no scruple of telling a justice of the peace a story of an hour long about a tester (sixpence) and if he grows impatient, they attribute it to some secret prejudice, which he entertains against them. Their method is to get a story completely by heart, and to tell it, as they call it, out of the face, that is, from the begining to the end, withot interruption. "Well my good friend, I have seen you lounging about three hours in the yard; what is your business?” "Please your honor, it is what I want to speake one word to your honor." 'Speak then, but be quick what is the matter ?? The matter, please your honor, is nothing at-all-at-all, only just about the grazing of a horse, please your honor, that this man here sold me at the fair of Gurtishannon last shrove fair, which lay down three times with myself, please your honor, and kilt me; not to be telling your honor of how, no later back than yesterday night, he lay down in the house there within, and all the childer standing round, and it was God's mercey he did not fall a-top of them, or into the fire to burn himself. So please your honor to-day I took him back to this man, which owned him, and after a great deal to do Ț got the mare again I swopped (exchanged) him for, but he won't pay the grazing of the horse for the time I had him, though he promised to pay the grazing in case the horse didn't answer; and he never did a day's work, good or bad, please your honor, all the time he was with me, and I had the doctor to him five times, any how. And so, please your honor, it is what I expected your hon will stand my friend, for I'd sooner come to your honor for justice than to any other in all Ireland. And so I brough hia here before your honor, and expect your houor will make him pay me the grazing, or tell me, can Ι process him for it at the next assizes, please your honor?” The defendant now, turning a quid of tobacco with his tongue into some secret cavern in his mouth, begins his defence, with "Please your honor, under favour, and saving your honor's presence ther's not a word of truth in all this man has been saying from beginning to end, upon my conscience, and ì wouldn't for the value of the horse itself, grazing and all, be after telling your honor a lie. For please your honor, I have a dependence upon your honor that you'll do me justice, and not be listning to him or the like of him. Please your ho nor, it's what he has brought me before your honor, because he had a spite against me about some oats I sold ho your nor, which he was jealous of, and a shawl his wife got at my shister's shop there without, and never paid for : so I offer d to set the shawl against the grazing, and give him a receipt in full of all demands; but he wouldn't out of spite, please your honor; so he brought me before your honor, expecting your honor was mad with me for cutting down the tree in the horse-park, which was none of my doing, please your honor--il luck to them that went and belied me to your honor behind my back -So if your honor is pleasing, I'll tell you the whole truth about the horse that he swapped against my mare, out of the face. Last shrove fair I met this, mat man. Jammy Duffy, please your honor, just at the corner of the road, where the bridge. Is broke down, that your honor is to have the presentment for this year-long life to you for it! And he was at that. time coming from the fair of Gurtishannon, and I the same way. How are you Jemmy?' says I. Very well I thank ye kindley, Bryan,' says he; shall we turn back to Paddy Salmon's and take a naggin of whiskey to our better acquantance?'-1 don't care if I do. Jemmy,' says I: 'only it is what I can't take the whiskey, because I'm under an oath against it for a month. Ever s.nce, please your honor, the day your honor met me on the road and observed to me I I could hardly stand i had tak en so much—though upon my conscience your honor wronged me greatly that same time.. ill luck to them that belied me behind my back to your honor!--Well, please your honor, as I was telling you, as he was taking the whiskey, and we talking of one thing or t'other, he makes me an offer to sop his mair that he couldn't sell at the fair of Gurtishannon, because no-body would be troubled with the beast, please your honor, against my horse, and to oblige him I took the the mare--sorrow take her! and him along with her!--She kicked me a new car. that was worth three pounds ten, to tatters the first time ever I put her into it, and I expect your honor will make him pay me the price of the car, and how before I pay the grazing, which I've no right to pay at-all-at-all, only to oblige him--But I leave it all to your honor--and the whole grazing he ought to be charging for the beast is but two and eight-pence-halfpenny any how, please your honor. So I'll abide by what your homorsays, good or bad. I'll leave it all to your honor.' I'll leave it all to your honor--literally means, I'll leave all the trouble to your honor, |