After a good deal of cogitation, he at length came
to the conclusion that the school-master, Finigan, must have been
the traitor, and with this impression he resolved to give that worthy
personage a call upon his way home. He found him as usual at full work,
and as usual, also, in that state which is commonly termed half drunk, a
state, by the way, in which the learned pedagogue generally contrived
to keep himself night and day. Hycy did not enter his establishment, but
after having called him once or twice to no purpose--for such was the
din of the school that his voice could not penetrate it--he at length
knocked against the half open door, which caused him to be both seen
and heard more distinctly. On seeing him, the school-master got to his
limbs, and was about to address him, when Hycy said--
"Finigan, I wish to speak a few words to you."
"O'Finigan, sir--O'Finigan, Mr. Burke. It is enough, sir, to be deprived
of our hereditary territories, without being clipped of our names; they
should lave us those at all events unmutilated. O'Finigan, therefore,
Mr. Burke, whenever you address me, if you plaise."
"Well, Mr. O'Finigan," continued Hycy, "if not inconvenient, I should
wish to speak a few words with you."
"No inconvenience in the world, Mr. Burke; I am always disposed to
oblige my friends whenever I can do so wid propriety.
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