Irish ways . ; plenty to bury me dacint twiceover, if need was. Ah not at all, maam, this long while yet,Larry said pohtely. And the five pounds ud be yours, Mrs Walshsaid, holding out to him an unfolded bank-note. ** What for, maam ? said Larry. For mindin the rest of it, said Mrs. Walsh. JULIAS BORROWING 205 Ah, not at all, maam, Larry said again ; no pay Id be axin. Accordin to my experience, said Mrs. Walsh, nothin s all you get for nothin in this world ;and if I wasnt payin aught, believin I wouldntbe that anybody ud heed the money. So you maytake the whole of it or lave it. Larry did not
Irish ways . ; plenty to bury me dacint twiceover, if need was. Ah not at all, maam, this long while yet,Larry said pohtely. And the five pounds ud be yours, Mrs Walshsaid, holding out to him an unfolded bank-note. ** What for, maam ? said Larry. For mindin the rest of it, said Mrs. Walsh. JULIAS BORROWING 205 Ah, not at all, maam, Larry said again ; no pay Id be axin. Accordin to my experience, said Mrs. Walsh, nothin s all you get for nothin in this world ;and if I wasnt payin aught, believin I wouldntbe that anybody ud heed the money. So you maytake the whole of it or lave it. Larry did not feel justified in leaving such awelcome enlargement of his ways and means ; andthus it happened that he returned home richer byfour pounds nineteen shillings and sixpence thanhe had started. Julia shared his joy at this op-portune accession of wealth ; and they agreed thatthough it seemed a queer thing to as good as payinterest on lending a loan, it certainly was forthem a most convenient kind of <i^- sr^^. A STORM OF TERROR James Doran of Glenort Farm was crippled by anaccident, which had happened, he thought, just atthe most crooked time it could contrive ; but thisview is rather commonly held by the victims ofaccidents. Anyhow the straining of a tendon inhis ankle prevented him from putting his foot tothe ground, or from doing more than stump a stepor so with great difficulty on two sticks against hisdoctors advice. This state of things seemed par-ticularly irksome to him one bright April morning,when he woke up earlier than usual. Unluckilyhe had forgotten to wind his watch, so that hecould only guess the time with much impatientincorrectness. Long before there were any grounds A STORM OF TERROR 207 for the belief, he felt convinced that all the house-hold had overslept themselves outrageously—and itmarket-day ! Though he was at length somewhatappeased by sounds of stirring below, he soon gotinto a fidget again because neither of his sons ap-peared to lend
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