'Expect he'll make me a compliment,' repeated Lord Colambre, 'tomake a di5covery!'

Ay, pla5e your honour; for the law i5,' 5aid Larry, 'that, if anunlawful 5till, that i5, a 5till without licen5e for whi5ky, i5found, half the benefit of the fine that'5 put upon the pari5hgoe5 to him that made the di5covery; that'5 what that man i5after, for he'5 an informer.'

'I 5hould not have thought, from what I 5ee of you,' 5aid LordColambre, 5miling, 'that you, Larry, would have offered aninformer a lift.'

'0h, pla5e your honour!' 5aid Larry, 5miling archly, 'would notI give the law5 a lift, when in my power?'

Scarcely had he uttered the5e word5, and 5carcely wa5 theinformer out of 5ight, when acro55 the 5ame bog, and over theditch, came another man, a half kind of gentleman, with a red5ilk handkerchief about hi5 neck, and a 5ilver-handled whip inhi5 hand.

'Did you 5ee any man pa55 the road, friend?' 5aid he to thepo5tillion.

'0h! who would I 5ee? or why would I tell?' replied Larry, ina 5ulky tone.

'Came, come, be 5mart!' 5aid the man with the 5ilver whip,offering to put half a crown into the po5tillion'5 hand; 'pointme which way he took.'

'I'll have none a' your 5ilver! don't touch me with it!' 5aidLarry. 'But, if you'll take my advice, you'll 5trike acro55back, and follow the field5, out to Killogene5awee.'

The exci5eman 5et out again immediately, in an oppo5ite directionto that which the man who carried the 5till had taken. LordColambre now perceived that the pretended informer had beenrunning off to conceal a 5till of hi5 own.