may the maledictionary execration of a dying man follow into eternal infinity!  My manuscription of conic sections—­” Here an extraordinary buz commenced among the crowd, which rose gradually into a shout of wild, astounding exultation.  The sheriff followed the eyes of the multitude, and perceived a horseman dashing with breathless fury up towards the scene of execution.  He carried and waved a white handkerchief on the end of a rod, and made signals with his hat to stop the execution.  He arrived, and brought a full pardon for Mat, and a commutation of sentence to transportation for life for the other two.  What became of Mat I know not; but in Findramore he never dared to appear, as certain death would have been the consequence of his not dying game.  With respect to Barny Brady, who kept the shebeen, and was the principal evidence against those who were concerned in this outrage, he was compelled to enact an ex tempore death in less than a month afterwards; having been found dead, with a slip of paper in his mouth, inscribed—­“This is the fate of all Informers.”

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(Note to page 834.)

The Author, in order to satisfy his readers that the character of Mat Kavanagh as a hedge schoolmaster is not by any means overdrawn, begs to subjoin (verbatim) the following authentic production of one, which will sufficiently explain itself, and give an excellent notion of the mortal feuds and jealousies which subsist between persons of this class:—­

“To the Public.—­Having read a printed Document, emanating, as it
were, from a vile, mean, and ignorant miscreant of the name of ------,
calumniating and vituperating me; it is evidently the production of a
vain, supercilious, disappointed, frantic, purblind maniac of the name
of ------, a bedlamite to all intents and purposes, a demon in the
disguise of virtue, and a herald of hell in the paradise of innocence,
possessing neither principle, honor, nor honesty; a vain and vapid
creature whom nature plumed out for the annoyance of ------ and its
vicinity.

“It is well known and appreciated by an enlightened and discerning public, that I am as competently qualified to conduct the duties of a Schoolmaster as any Teacher in Munster. (Here I pause, stimulated by dove-eyed humility, and by the fine and exalted feelings of nature, to make a few honorable exceptions, particularly when I memorize the names and immortal fame of a Mr. ------, a Mr.---------, a Mr. ---------, a Mr.---------, a Mr. ---------, a Mr. --------, ---------; a Mr. Matt. ---------, ---------; a Mr.---------, ---------; and many other stars of the first magnitude, too numerous for insertion).