“That’s good, my boy. Come, tell me now; and what is Christmas Day?”

The ready answer bared a fact no bishop ever knew—

“It’s the day before the races out at Tangmalangaloo.”

THE ALTAR-BOY

Now McEvoy was altar-boy

As long as I remember;

He was, bedad, a crabbéd lad,

And sixty come December.

Faith, no one dared to “interfare”

In things the which concernin’