"Have you heard Captain Ussher threatened with death in the prisoner's presence?" "I don't know that they ever said death or murder; they don't spake out that way; av they war going to hole a chap, it's giving him his _quiatis_ or his _gruel_ they'd be talking about." "Well, now, on your oath, have you ever, in the prisoner's presence, heard such language used respecting Captain Ussher as made you think that he was to be killed?" "Didn't I tell yer honour I thought all along how he'd be killed." "Were you ever at Mrs. Mulready's in Mohill?" "I war." "Did you ever hear Captain Ussher's name mentioned there?" "I did." "Now tell the jury as nearly as you can what was said respecting him there." "Why a lot of boys swore together over a noggin or two of sperrits, to put him undher the sod--that's all; but shure, yer honour, Mr. Thady, that's him there," and he pointed to the dock, "was niver at Mother Mulready's." "Well, but when the boys swore to put the Captain under the sod was the prisoner's name mentioned?" "Oh, it war ofthen." "And what was said about him?" "Why, yer honour it was this way--and I'll tell you all I know about it off hand--and thin you'll not be throubling yer honour's self wid all these questions. The boys war mostly tenants to Mr. Thady here--and they did be saying that av so--av Mr. Thady would jine them in putting down the peelers and the Captain--they'd undhertake Mr. Keegan'd never put a second foot on the lands of Ballycloran; and they war the more hot about this, as they knew Mr. Thady war agin the Captain about his sisther, for he thought thim two were too thick like; and he used to be saying as how Ussher war playing his thricks with Miss Feemy. Well, along of this--and knowing as how the masther were agin Mr. Keegan too, they thought he'd jine in; and to bring him round, they swore niver to pay the rint afore he did. Well, yer honour, I was one night at the Widdy's, that's Mother Mulready's, for I'd gone there knowing as how the tenants 'd be in it, and I war noticing them to be up with the masther on Friday next about the rint. Afther I'd been telling 'em all to be up at Ballycloran, they got swearing that divil a foot they'd stir to the place, or divil a penny they'd pay any more, because Mr. Thady here war so thick with the Captain. This war jist afther the row up to Loch Sheen, when three boys war locked up about some squall--and this made the rest more bitter agin the Captain. Well, when they got swearing this way, I axed 'em, why not go to the masther like a man, and tell him what they thought. Wid that they agreed to come up to Mary's wedding--that's Mary McGovery, yer honour, as is my sisther, and who war to be married the Thursday; and so they parted, and a lot on 'em swore that blessed night that the Captain should be under the sod that day six months. Well, yer honour, the next morning Mr. Keegan called down to Ballycloran about law business, and somehow there war words atwixt him and Mr.