"And what's that?" asked the other, well pleased.
"She'll not back a bill!" was the answer; "but if iver she schames with ye, renaging[1] or such like, by this book, I'll be ashamed to look a harse, or so much as a jackass in the face again!"
So the mare was sent for; and Patsy, with a stud reduced to the donkey and the Kerry cow, shed bitter tears when she went away.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] Refusing.
MISS DOUGLAS
It is time to explain how the young black mare became linked with the fate of certain persons, whose fortunes and doings, good or bad, are related in this story.