“'In good health at the present time, thank God and you; how is yourself, Barney?' “'Can't complain as time goes; only take this, any how, to mend your health, ma bouchal.' (Whack.) “'Success, Barney, and here's at your sarvice, avick, not making little of what I got, any way.' (Crack.) “About five o'clock on a May evening, in the fair of Knockimdowny, was the ice thus broken, with all possible civility, by Ned and Barney. The next moment a general rush took place towards the scene of action, and ere you could bless yourself, Barney and Ned were both down, weltering in their own and each other's blood. I scarcely know, indeed, though with a mighty respectable quota of experimentality myself, how to describe what followed. For the first twenty minutes the general harmony of this fine row might be set to music, according to a scale something like this:--Whick whack--crick crack--whick whack--crick crack--&c, &c, &o. 'Here yer sowl--(crack)--there yer sowl--(whack). Whoo for the O'Hallag-hans!'--(crack, crack, crack). 'Hurroo for the O'Callaghans!--(whack, whack, whack). The O'Callaghans for ever!'--(whack). 'The O'Hallaghans for ever!'--(crack). 'Mur-ther! murther!--(crick, crack)--foul! foul!--(whack, whack). Blood and turf!--(whack, whick)--tunther-an-ouns'--(crack, crick). 'Hurroo! my darlings! handle your kip-peens--(crack, crack)--the O'Hallaghans are going!'--(whack, whack). “You are to suppose them, here to have been at it for about half an hour. “Whack, crack--'oh--oh--oh! have mercy upon me, boys--(crack--a shriek of murther! murther--crack, crack, whack)--my life--my life--(crack, crack--whack, whack)--oh! for the sake of the living Father!--for the sake of my wife and childher, Ned Hallaghan, spare my life.' “'So we will, but take this, any how'--(whack, crack, whack, crack). “'Oh! for the love of. God, don't kill--(whack, crack, whack). Oh!'--(crack, crack, whack--dies). “'Huzza! huzza! huzza!' from the O'Hallaghans. 'Bravo, boys! there's one of them done for: whoo! my darlings! hurroo! the O'Hallaghans for ever!' “The scene now changes to the O'Callaghan side. “'Jack--oh, Jack, avourneen--hell to their sowls for murdherers--Paddy's killed--his skull's smashed! Revinge, boys, Paddy O'Callaghan's killed! On with you, O'Callaghans--on with you--on with you, Paddy O'Callaghan's murdhered--take to the stones--that's it--keep it up, down with: him! Success!--he's the bloody villain that: didn't show him marcy--that's it. Tunder-an-ouns, is it laving him that way you are afther--let me at him!' “'Here's a stone, Tom!' “'No, no, this stick has the lead in it. It'll do him, never fear!' “'Let him alone, Barney, he's got enough.' “'By the powdhers, it's myself that won't: didn't he kill Paddy?--(crack, crack). Take that, you murdhering thief!'--(whack, whack). “'Oh!--(whack, crack)--my head--I'm killed--I'm'--(crack--kicks the bucket).