Genuine Eloquence

Leitch Ritchie, in his "Travel in Inlaad," relates the following incident: " One man, whom I saw sitting on the ground. leaning his back agairtst the wull, attracted my attention by a degree of squalor in hi-t appearanco which I had rarely bcfore observed, even in IrelamJ. II is clothes were ragged to ndecency - a very commonoceurrnnce, however, withthe male - and hU face was pale and siekly. Ho diil not addross tue, and I pmffij by ; luit, having gone a few paoet, Doy heart suiote me, and I turned back. ' If you are in want,' said I, with some degree of peeritboett, ' why do you not brg .'' ' Sun-, it il l'gL'lng]I :iuj,' was the reply. " ' V ou did not utter a word.' "'Nol It is joking you are with me, sir? Look thero I ' holding up the tattered remnant of what had once beeu a coat; 'do you see how the kin is spcaking through the lióles of my trouners, and the bones crying out through my skin ? Look at my sunken cheek, and the famine that's staring in my syes! Man ' isn't it befinp 1 ara with a humlred toBgae ' ' "