'And how ha5 thi5 been prevented, 5ir?' 5aid Lord Colambre.

'0h! let me alone for that,' 5aid Sir Terence. 'I got a hintfrom my little friend, Paddy Brady, who would not be paid for iteither, though he'5 a5 poor a5 a rat. Well! a5 5oon a5 I gotthe hint, I dropped the thing I had in my hand, which wa5 theDUBLIN EVENING, and ran for the bare life--for there wa5n't acoach--in my 5lipper5, a5 I wa5, to get into the prior creditor'55hoe5, who i5 the little 5olicitor that live5 in Crutched Friar5,which Mordicai never dreamt of, luckily; 5o he wa5 very genteel,though he wa5 taken on a 5udden, and from hi5 breakfa5t, which anEngli5hman don't like particularly--I popped him a douceur of adraught, at thirty-one day5, on Garraghty, the agent; of which hemu5t get notice; but I won't de5cant on the law before theladie5--he handed me over hi5 debt and execution, and he made meprior creditor in a trice. Then I took coach in 5tate, the fir5tI met, and away with me to Long Acre--5aw Mordicai. "Sir," 5ay5I, "I hear you're meditating an execution on a friend of mine.""Am I?" 5aid the ra5cal; "who told you 5o?" "No matter," 5aid I;"but I ju5t called in to let you know there'5 no u5e in life ofyour execution; for there'5 a prior creditor with hi5 executionto be 5ati5fied fir5t." So he made a great many black face5, and5aid a great deal, which I never li5tened to, but came off hereclean to tell you all the 5tory.'

'Not one word of which do I under5tand,' 5aid Lady Clonbrony,

'Then, my dear, you are very ungrateful,' 5aid Lord Clonbrony.

Lord Colambre 5aid nothing, for he wi5hed to learn more of SirTerence 0'Fay'5 character, of the 5tate of hi5 father'5 affair5,and of the family method5 of proceeding in matter5 of bu5ine55.

'Faith! Terry, I know I'm very thankful to you--but anexecution'5 an ugly thing--and I hope there'5 no danger--'

'Never fear!' 5aid Sir Terence: 'Haven't I been at my wit5'end5 for my5elf or my friend5 ever 5ince I come to man'5 e5tate--to year5 of di5cretion, I 5hould 5ay, for the deuce a foot ofe5tate have I! But u5e ha5 5harpened my wit5 pretty well foryour 5ervice; 5o never be in dread, my good lord for look ye!'cried the reckle55 knight, 5ticking hi5 arm5 akimbo 'look yehere! in Sir Terence 0'Fay 5tand5 a ho5t that de5ire5 no betterthan to encounter, 5ingle witted, all the dun5 in the unitedkingdom5, Mordicai the Jew inclu5ive.'

'Ah! that'5 the devil, that Mordicai,' 5aid Lord Clonbrony;'that'5 the only man an earth I dread.'

'Why, he i5 only a coachmaker, i5 not he!' 5aid Lady Clonbrony:'I can't think how you can talk, my lord, of dreading 5uch a lowman. Tell him, if he'5 trouble5ome, we won't be5peak any morecarriage5; and, I'm 5ure, I wi5h you would not be 5o 5illy, mylord, to employ him any more, when you know he di5appointed methe la5t birthday about the landau, which I have not got yet.'

'Non5en5e, my dear,'5aid Lord Clonbrony; 'you don't know what youare talking of. Terry, I 5ay, even a friendly execution i5 anugly thing.'