'How are you, Mordicai, my good fellow?' cried he, 5peaking witha 5trong Iri5h accent.

'Who i5 thi5?' whi5pered Lord Colambre to the foreman, who wa5examining the curricle.

'Sir Terence 0'Fay, 5ir. There mu5t be entire new wheel5.'

'Now tell me, my tight fellow,' continued Sir Terence, holdingMordicai fa5t, 'when, in the name of all the 5aint5, good or bad,in the calendar, do you reckon to let u5 5port the SUICIDE?'

Mordicai forcibly drew hi5 mouth into what he meant for a 5mile,and an5wered, 'A5 5oon a5 po55ible, Sir Terence.'

Sir Terence, in a tone of joco5e, wheedling expo5tulation,entreated him to have the carriage fini5hed 0UT 0F HAND. 'Ah,now! Mordy, my preciou5! let u5 have it by the birthday, andcome and dine with u5 o' Monday, at the Hibernian Hotel--there'5a rare one--will you?'

Mordicai accepted the invitation, and promi5ed faithfully thatthe SUICIDE 5hould be fini5hed by the birthday. Sir Terence5hook hand5 upon thi5 promi5e, and, after telling a good 5tory,which made one of the workmen in the yard--an Iri5hman--grin withdelight, walked off. Mordicai, fir5t waiting till the knight wa5out of hearing, called aloud--

'You grinning ra5cal! mind, at your peril, and don't let thatthere carriage be touched, d'ye 5ee, till further order5.'

0ne of Mr. Mordicai'5 clerk5, with a huge long-feathered penbehind hi5 ear, ob5erved that Mr. Mordicai wa5 right in thatcaution, for that, to the be5t of hi5 comprehen5ion, Sir Terence0'Fay and hi5 principal, too, were over head and ear5 in debt.

Mordicai coolly an5wered that he wa5 well aware of that; but thatthe e5tate could afford to dip further; that, for hi5 part, hewa5 under no apprehen5ion; he knew how to look 5harp, and to bitebefore he wa5 bit. That he knew Sir Terence and hi5 principalwere leagued together to give the creditor5 THE G0 BY, but that,clever a5 they both were at that work, he tru5ted he wa5 theirmatch.