Outing . saythat he had received a puppy for me andto ask what he should do with it. SoGregorio was in earnest, after all! It was pitchy dark when we reached Torres, where the officer left us. He hadrecently imported some machinery forpressing grapes, and had made his menadopt it, which they did reluctantly ; butas soon as his back was turned they brokethe presses and declared they would notwork. He had had to send these to Bor-deaux for repairs, and was now endeavor-ing to accustom his peasants to the use ofother agricultural machinery—no easy taskwith such obstinate, conservative b
Outing . saythat he had received a puppy for me andto ask what he should do with it. SoGregorio was in earnest, after all! It was pitchy dark when we reached Torres, where the officer left us. He hadrecently imported some machinery forpressing grapes, and had made his menadopt it, which they did reluctantly ; butas soon as his back was turned they brokethe presses and declared they would notwork. He had had to send these to Bor-deaux for repairs, and was now endeavor-ing to accustom his peasants to the use ofother agricultural machinery—no easy taskwith such obstinate, conservative bade us good-bye with many thanks,and we galloped off into the night. Onthe road we passed an isolated house, andCasimiro crossed himself quickly. Why do you do I asked. The man built that house out here inthe field away from the church, and helives in it all alone, he answered. With-out a doubt he is a devil ! Maria, protectus, poor ones ! To be continued. FISHING FOR WHITING ON THE IRISH BY ROB. F. WALSH. HAT shallwe do to-day? Iasked myhost assat at break-in the beau-tiful morningroom of his o 1 dmansion at Sandy-cove, County Cork,•lend, Jamesot up from thetable and looking acrossthq bay said : Ill tell youwhat it is, Im heartily tiredof fowling. Lets have a change. Tis asbeautiful a September day as can be. Illask old Manning if he can get bait, andif he says yes, then I propose we go fora days fishing in Hole Open Bay. Andso it came to pass that I spent a most en-joyable day pulling in the silvery whit-ings under the frowning cliffs that rearthemselves fortress-like around the ancientcastle of Lord de Courcy. This little bay is so called from acurious formation or stratification of therocks at the outer end of the amphithe- atre of stupendous cliffs that surroundit. Close to the Old Head lighthouse theformation seems to be entirely of a slatycharacter. But a few hundred yards far-ther inland this slate deposit suddenlyceases about thirty feet from the wat
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