All-Hallow Eve; or, The Test of Futurity.

ve. Mick would ask a few of the neighbors to burn nuts and eat

son, "I believe this i

yesterday with their pockets full of fine

ould set them to get us a few pockets full, and we would ask

uld be glad to earn a few pence for them; they wanted me to buy what they had; and if I knew your int

you know, are all as wan as ourselves, livin' at the doore with us; and they're much like us too, Tom, in many respects. Old Ned is rich, an' has but o

on the alert. It must have been very dull indeed had it failed

e you doesn't make more of her. She'll have six hundred pounds fortune, as round as a hoop; beside, whoever gets

I suspect she would rather give her six hundred pound

now. Did yo

People don't often hold

thing to him; an' if she vexes him he can cut her out of her six hundred pounds, and lave

m round her finger. Wait now, father, until you see if

I was your age, I always found that the girls liked the man best that looked a

the truth for you. And as for there being no one before me, all I can say is that she manages, somehow or other, to come out of the chapel-door every Sunday at the same moment with that whelp,

, depending on his day's labor? A

nd there's no getting a w

pounds and fall into that rich farm, an' you livin' at the doore with her, you're not worth staggering-bob broth, with all your book-larnin' an'

ut which became very plain speaking in the end. But

contrast, between these two aspirants to Winny Cavana's favor, though

stionably gave him. In form he was fully six feet high, and beautifully made. At nineteen years of age he had mastered not only all the learning which could be attained at a neighboring national school, but had actually mastered the master himself in more ways than one, and was considered by the eighty-four youngsters whom he had outstripped as a prodigy of valor as well as learning. But Tom turned his schooling to a bad account; it was too superficial, and served more to set his head astray than to correct his heart; and there were some respectable persons in the neighborhood who were not free from doubts

n only daughter, and the two old men were of the same

f Edward Lennon,

potato marriage;" that is-but no, it will not bear explanation. The result, however, after many years' struggling, may be stated. The Lennons had lived, and were still living, in a small thatched house upon the side of a mountain, with about four acres of reclaimed ground. It had been reclaimed gradually by the father and his two sons-for Emon had a younger brother-and they paid little or no rent for it. The sec

n and character young Lennon was a full distance before the man to whom he was a secret rival, while in talent and learning he had nothing to fear by a comparison. He had commenced his education when a mere gossoon at a poor-school with "his turf an' his read-a-ma-daisy," and as he progressed from A-b-e-l, bel, a man's name; A-b-l-e, ble, Able, powerful, strong, until finally he could spell Antitrinitarian pat, he then cut the

his love was more disinterested than that of his richer rival. There was another point upon which there was still less doubt than either, and that was that Winny Cavana's heart secretly leaned to "Emon-a-knock," as young Lennon was familiarly called by all tho

ntiously endeavored to hide her preference from young Lennon himself, knowing that it would only get them both into trouble. Beside, he had never (yet) sh

eption to the general rule. She even went further, and sometimes called young Lennon by his pet name. As regarded Tom Murdock, although she could have wished it otherwise, she would not make herself particular by acting differently. The first three letters of his name, coupled with the scowl she had more than once detected on his

d men had to work, to bring about a union of t